Assoc Prof Cheung received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, in 2008. His Ph.D. research focused on image and video coding, and the work was supported in part by NASA-JPL. From 2009-2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Image, Video and Multimedia Systems group at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He has also held research positions with Texas Instruments Research Center Japan, Nokia Research Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, HP Labs Japan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL). His industrial work has resulted in 6 U.S. patents granted with several pending. His research interest is to develop advanced algorithms to enable efficient processing of multimedia data. He is also interested in exploring collaborative and interdisciplinary research that involves applying signal processing or multicore technology to address problems in other areas.