Shahriar Mohammad AKRAMULLAH

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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Summary PhD (June 1999); Thesis: Software-based

Video Coding using High-performance Computing.

Publications in international journals (5) and conference proceedings (7).

Expertise in digital video coding and image processing algorithms,

parallel and distributed computing, software development, parallel I/O,

disk scheduling.

In-depth understanding of video coding standards,

such as H.261, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

Experience on the Intel Paragon, the Intel iPSC/860, and various

cluster of workstations (homogeneous and heterogeneous).

Experience with MMX, Streaming SIMD Extension and VIS low-level

multimedia instruction sets.

Experience with MPI, Express, NX, and PVM message-passing systems.

Fluent in C/C++, IA-32/IA-64 Assembly, Fortran, Matlab and BASIC.

Excellent leadership, communication skills and interpersonal skills.

Self-motivated, resourceful, practical, a logical thinker and receive

a great deal of satisfaction from completing projects successfully.

Area of Interest Video Compression Techniques

Software Development for Visual Applications

Image Processing Algorithms

Parallel Computing Software

Scheduling and Mapping Algorithms

Digital Signal Processing

Distributed Multimedia Systems

Education

June 1999 Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

July 1995 Master of Philosophy in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Graduate-level courses taken in

Advanced Digital Signal

Processing

Parallel Processing: Software

Information Theory and

Error-correcting Codes

Introduction to Probability,

Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

August 1991 Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh Honors and Awards

01/96-08/99 Post-graduate Research Assistantship,

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

1997 Certificate of Merit, IEEE PG Student Paper Contest 1997,

IEEE Hong Kong Section

1995 Best Paper Award, IEEE PG Student Paper Contest 1995,

IEEE Hong Kong Section

1995 Passed with Distinction, M.Phil Thesis Examination

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

1993-1995 Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (Hong Kong Awards)

Student Financial Assistance Agency, Hong Kong

1991 Certificate for academic standing (2nd rank amongst 66 students)

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh Experience

09/99-date Research Associate

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Performing research on visual quality improvement of video

sequences compressed at low bit rates;

Leading a group of researchers in developing an MPEG-2 based

compression facility at the Multimedia Technology Research Center,

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;

Developing an optimized software based MPEG-4 video decoder;

01/96-08/99 Research Assistant

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Developed efficient I/O scheduling methodologies for

parallel MPEG-2 video encoding;

Developed a fast DCT/IDCT algorithm based on low-level

machine primitives;

Developed several speedup techniques for video coding

applications and demonstrated the feasibility of software-based

video encoding without any bottleneck on general-purpose

clusters of workstations;

Implemented software-based optimized real-time H.263 codec

using single-processor general-purpose computer;

09/93-07/95 Research Assistant

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Implemented software-based MPEG-2 video encoders on the Intel

paragon, on the Intel iPSC/860, and on a network of HP workstations;

Achieved real-time performance using software for the first time

for on-line video encoding;

09/91-09/93 Lecturer

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Supervised undergraduate research projects,

Taught undergraduate courses on

Electrical machines, Electrical measurements and measuring instruments,

Transmission and distribution of electrical power, and Basic computer

technology,

Conducted laboratory sessions,

Designed undergraduate curriculum as a member of curriculum committee.

Affiliations

Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Assoc. Member Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB)

Student Member Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer Literacy

Platform Sun, SGI and HP workstations, IBM PC, PC Macintosh,

Intel Supercomputer Paragon XP/S and Intel Supercomputer iPSC/860

System DOS, OSF/1 and UNIX (SunOS, Solaris, IRIX and HP-UX);

Familiar with VAX/VMS and MacOS

Message Passing

Library Express, MPI, PVM and NX

Language C, C++, IA-32/IA-64 Assembly, Fortran, Matlab, HPF and BASIC

Software Competent in a number of Microsoft window and X-window based softwareRepresentative PublicationsS. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou,

``Performance of a Software-Based MPEG-2 Video Encoder on Parallel and

Distributed Systems'', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

for Video Technology, Vol.7, No.4, August 1997, pp. 687-695.

( [485K])

S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou,

``A Data-Parallel Approach for Real-Time MPEG-2 Video Encoding'',

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing,

Vol.30, No.2, November 1995, pp. 129-146.

( [385K])

S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou,

``Parallel MPEG-2 Encoder on ATM and Ethernet-connected Workstations,''

to appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science,

4th International Conference of the ACPC (ACPC '99), Salzburg, Austria.

( [57K])

S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou,

``Optimization of Software-based Real-time H.263 Encoding,''

Proceedings of the SPIE, IS&T/SPIE's 11th Annual Symposium,

Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology (EI'99), Program on

Visual Communications and Image Processing '99, 23-29 January 1999,

San Jose, CA, pp. 727-735.

([220K])

S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou,

``A Software Based H.263 Video Encoder using a Cluster of Workstations'',

Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 3166, SPIE's 1997 Optical Science, Engineering,

and Instrumentation Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA, 27 July - 1 August,

1997, to appear.

( [140K])

S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou,

``A Portable and Scalable MPEG-2 Video Encoder on Parallel and Distributed

Computing Systems'',

Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 2727, Pt. 2, Symposium on Visual Communications

and Image Processing '96, pp. 973-984,

Orlando, Florida, USA, 17-20 March 1996.

( [299K])

S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou,

``Parallelization of MPEG-2 Video Encoder for Parallel and Distributed Computing

Systems'',

Proceedings of 38th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 2,

pp. 834-837,

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 13-16, 1995.

( [515K])

S. M. Akramullah, Software-based Video Coding Using High-

Performance Computing, PhD Thesis, The Hong Kong University of

Science and Technology, June 1999.

For a full list of publications, please refer to this

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Personal Data

Date of birth 01 January 1967

Nationality Bangladeshi

Hong Kong ID # P 313329 (3) Personal Interests Reading magazines,, books

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