Dr. Ching-Yung Lin is a Research Scientist in the Event and Streaming Systems Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York. He is currently leading projects on Collective Intelligence and Network Science researches. He is also an affiliate faculty at the University of Washington since 2003 and Columbia University since 2005. He received his B.S. and M.S. from National Taiwan University, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2000, all in electrical engineering.
His research interest is mainly focused on multimodality signal analysis and complex network analysis, with applications on machine learning, distributed computing, embedded vision system, social computing and security. Dr. Lin invented and leads the Small Blue project, an IBM effort to build up a large-scale network analysis and visualization platform for utilizing collective intelligence and tacit knowledge mining. The goal is to develop advanced systems for search and recommendation on expertise, documents, webpages, software, communities, collaborators, etc, based on social, content and behavior analysis. By early April 2008, SmallBlue has been modeling the network, expertise and interest of more than 280,000 IBMers in more than 70 countries. An external commercial version of SmallBlue, called IBM Atlas (a.k.a. Lotus Atlas), was announced in Dec 2007 as the first enterprise social network analysis and expertise search engine in industry.
In 2003, Dr. Lin created and led more than 100 researchers in 23 worldwide research institutes for the first large-scale collaborative video semantic annotation project. He pioneered the design of a semantic filtering framework which detects more than 100 visual concepts in videos. Dr. Lin's multimedia semantic mining project team performed best in the annual US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) semantic video concept detection benchmarking 2002-2004. He also pioneered the design of video/image content authentication systems and a watermarking system surviving print-and-scan process.
He has been serving as panelist, technical committee member, and invited speaker at various IEEE/ACM/SPIE conferences. He will be the general chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expos (ICME) 2009 and the chair of the Circuits and Systems Multimedia Technical Committee 2010-2011. He is the Editor of the Interactive Magazines (EIM) of the IEEE Communications Society, 2004-2006, an associate editor of the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia 2004-2007, an editorial board member of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representaiton, a guest editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Multimedia Security, June 2004, a guest editor of the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, Special Issues on Visual Sensor Networks, Sept. 2006, and a Technical Program co-chair of IEEE ITRE 2003. Dr. Lin (co-)organized special sessions in the fields of multimedia security and multimedia understanding in IEEE ITCC 2001, ICIP 2003, ICME 2004 and ICIP 2004. He is a tutorial lecturer in ISCAS 2003, ICME 2003, Globecom 2003, ICCE 2005, ISCAS 2005, and MMSP 2005.
Dr. Lin is a recipient of 2003 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Outstanding Young Author Award, IBM Invention Achievement Awards in 2001, 2003 and 2007, IBM Research Division Award 2005, Acer Best EECS Thesis Award in 1993, and the Outstanding Paper Award in CVGIP 1993. He is the (co-)author of 120 journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and public release software. Dr. Lin holds four US patents and twelve pending patents. He is also a Ph.D. thesis co-advisor at National Taiwan University. Dr. Lin is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of ACM and INSNA. He took this Comet Hyakutake photo (1/3 of the sky, 30 mins exposure) in April 1996.
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