Research Interests
- Data Management
- Image and Video Retrieval, Internet of Things
- Event-based Database Management Systems for Live Multimedia Computing
- Mobile Computing
- Data Analysis
- Multidimensional Data Analytics
- Neural Networks for Music Generation
- Social Media Analytics
- Medical Imaging
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Data Communications
- Video Communications
- Wireless Communications
Other Experience
- Advisory Engineer and Lead Architect of a Parallel Computer Project, IBM Mid-Hudson Laboratories
- NASA domain expert in space port technology
Professional Activities
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, and International Journal of Advanced Information Technologies.
- Conference Chair, Track Chair, Program Vice Chair, Technical Program Committee Member of numerous IEEE and ACM Conferences
- Over 300 refereed publications
Honors & Awards
- IEEE Fellow
- 15 Top/Best Paper Recognitions at international conferences and one paper of the year at a journal
- Best Presenter Awards at an international conference
- UCF College of Engineering & Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer
- UCF Teaching Incentive Awards (three times)
- UCF Research Incentive Award