Dr.Shipeng LI
Researcher
Microsoft Research Asia Internet Media Group

  Dr. Shipeng Li joined Microsoft Research Asia in May 1999. He is currently the research manager of Internet Media group. His research interests include scalable media coding and streaming, wireless video communication, application level networking, object-based image and video coding, video object tracking and extraction, digital right management, etc. From Oct. 1996 to May 1999, Dr. Li was with Multimedia Technology Laboratory at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ (formerly David Sarnoff Research Center, and RCA Laboratories) as a member of technical staff. He has been actively involved in research and development of digital television, MPEG, JPEG, image/video compression, next generation multimedia standards and applications, consumer electronics. He has contributed shape-adaptive wavelet transforms, scalable shape coding and recently the error resilience tool in the streaming video profile for the MPEG-4 standard. He invented and developed the world first cost-effective high-quality legacy HDTV decoder rated best quality in CES99. He has authored and co-authored over 70 technical publications and over 20 granted and pending US patents in image/video compression and communications, digital television, multimedia and wireless communication. He is the author of a book chapter in, Multimedia Systems and Standards, published by the Marcel Dekker, Inc. and the author of book chapter in The Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications to be published by the Wiley and Sons, Inc.

    Dr. Li is a member of Visual Signal Processing and Communications committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Li was the first recipient of dual Sarnoff technical achievement awards in ten years.

    Dr. Li received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, in 1996. He was assistant professor in Electrical Engineering department at University of Science and Technology of China in 1991-1992.