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Wu-chi Feng
Special Advisor to the Provost on Strategic Initiatives, Office of Academic Affairs
Professor, Computer Science

Past Administrative Roles

Interim Dean, Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science (2021-2022)
Associate Dean for Research, Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science (2020-2021)
Chair, Computer Science Department (2007-2010, 2016-2019)

Brief Bio: I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and am a member of the Intel Systems and Networking Group. Before joining PSU in 2004, I was an Associate Professor at the OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU (2001-2004) and an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University (1996-2001).

I received my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in Computer Science and Engineering. I received my B.S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University in Computer Engineering

Research

My research interests include:

Multimedia systems
Video streaming protocols
Video compression systems
Scalable and adaptable video distribution infrastructures

I have a number of publications that deal with a number of topics including video streaming and networking.

My publications
My Ph.D. thesis:
- Video-On-Demand Services: Efficient Transportation and Decompression of Variable Bit Rate Video
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Click here to see the book that I've written on buffering techniques for digital video: Buffering Techniques for Delivery of Compressed Video in Video-on-Demand Systems , Springer, 1997.

Teaching

Current class:

CS 430P/530 - Internet, Web, and Cloud Systems

I generally teach the following courses:

CS 201 - Computer Systems Programming
CS 305 - Social, Ethical, and Legal Implications of Computing
CS 348U - Digital Media, Technology, and Society (Junior Cluster Course)
CS 490/590 - Introduction to Multimedia Computing and Networking
CS 410/510 - Advanced Topics in Multimedia Systems
I have also taught Intro. to Computer Networking and Intro. to Operating Systems, but not recently.

Recent External Service

Steering Committee Chair - Multimedia Systems Conference Series (2010-2020)
Technical Steering Committee Chair - International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (2012-2015)
An Editor for the Multimedia Systems Journal (2004 - 2016)

Program Committee Member – International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2022 (NOSSDAV '22)
Program Committee Member – ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2022
Program Committee Member – International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2021 (NOSSDAV '21)
Program Committee Member – ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2021
Program Committee Member – International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2020 (NOSSDAV '20)
Program Committee Member – ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2020
Program Committee Member – 29th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2019 (NOSSDAV '19)
Program Committee Member – ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2019
Program Committee Member – 28th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2018 (NOSSDAV '18)
Program Committee Member – ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2018
Program Committee - ACM Multimedia Conference, 2017
Program Committee Member – 27th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2017 (NOSSDAV '17)
Program Committee Member – ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2017
Program Committee Co-Chair – IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2016
Program Committee Member – 26th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2016 (NOSSDAV '16)
Program Committee Member – ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2016
Program Committee Track Co-chair (Systems and Middleware) - ACM Multimedia Conference, October 2015
Program Committee Co-chair - IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, June 2015
Program Committee Member - International Packet Video Workshop, May/June 2015
Program Committee Co-chair - 25th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2015
Program Committee Co-Chair - ACM Multimedia Systems 2015
Program Committee Member - Mobile Video 2014
Program Committee Member - 24th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video 2014
Program Committee - ACM Multimedia Systems 2014

Click here for a relatively complete list of my conference service activities.

Awards

USATF Oregon Association Youth Coach of the Year Award, 2013 [Facebook Blurb]
Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Accomplishment Award, 2001
Ohio State University College of Engineering Annual Research Accomplishment Award, 2000
National Science Foundation - Early CAREER Award, 1999
Ameritech Faculty Fellow Award, 1998-1999
Honorable Mention American Society for Engineering Education Outstanding Graduate Student Instructional Assistant 1995
Honorable Mention for Outstanding EECS Teaching Assistant, 1993
Outstanding EECS Teaching Assistant, 1991
IEEE Computer Society’s Richard E. Merwin Service Scholarship, 1990
William Barnak Outstanding Senior Award, Penn State University, 1990
National Engineering Consortium’s Everitt Student Award of Excellence, 1990

Contact Info:

wuchi@cs.pdx.edu
Dept. of Comp. Sci.
P.O. Box 751
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207-0751
Office: 503-725-2408
Fax: 503-725-3211