Manager Signal Processing

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Brian K. Foo

Education University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. (June 2008)

Major: Electrical Engineering Communications

Minor: Optimization

Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar

University of California, Los Angeles M.S. (Fall 2003-Fall 2004)

Major: Electrical Engineering Communications

GPA: 3.92

University of California, Berkeley B.S. (Fall 1999-Spring 2003)

Major: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Emphasis: Communication, Networks, and Systems

Minor: Mathematics

GPA: 3.89

Research Interests Mathematical Optimization

Distributed Algorithms

Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Multimedia Systems

Information Theoretic Rate-Distortion-Complexity Modeling for Video Coders

IBM Watson Internship Summer 2007

Professional

Experience Manager: Lisa Amini

Designed and implemented resource management algorithms for

distributed classifiers on System S

Submitted a patent for an algorithm for optimization of classifier trees

under resource constraints

IRI Corporation Fall 2005 to Spring 2006

Manager: Prof. Izhak Rubin (UCLA)

Job: Consultant

Designed joint MAC, routing, and node placement/movement protocols for a self-

organizing mobile sensor network

Rockwell Scientific Company Summer 2003

Group: Mixed Signals, Manager: M. J. Choe

Did layouts for various components in a D/A converter

Analyzed statistics from track and holds

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems in Sunnyvale, CA Summer 2001

Group: Advanced Technology Systems, Manager: Mark Gersh

Modified a message-oriented middleware for procedure calls across different

operating systems and programs

Wrote Java programs to generate VRML files from data received through satellites.

Evaluated Matlab libraries for 3d modeling

Technical Skills Computer languages: Java, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, HTML, Javascript, Python

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/xp, Unix, DOS

Network simulation tools: Qualnet

Other tools: Matlab, Labview, Mathematica, MS Office

Spring 2005, Fall 2006 Teaching Assistant for Digital Signal Processing at

Teaching Experience

UCLA

Selected Coursework Communications/Networks:

Estimation and Detection in Communication and Radar Engineering, Digital

Communication, Information Theory, Channel Coding Theory, Stochastic Modeling

with Application to Telecommunication Systems, Switching and Queuing Systems,

Telecommunication Architecture and Networks

Signal Processing:

Signal Processing in Communications, Digital Image Processing, DSP

(undergraduate)

Optimization:

Linear Programming, Nonlinear Programming, Linear Dynamical Programming

Computer Science: (Undergraduate coursework)

Algorithms and Graph Theory, Formal Languages and Automata Theory,

Computer Graphics, Combinatorics and Discrete Probability, Logic Programming,

Operating Systems

List of published and submitted works:

Journal Papers B. Foo, Y. Andreopoulos, M. van der Schaar. Analytical Rate-Distortion-

(Accepted) Complexity Modeling of Wavelet-based Video Coders. IEEE Trans. on Signal

Processing, Vol. 56, No. 2, Feb. 2008.

B. Foo, M. van der Schaar. A Queuing Theoretic Approach to Processor Power

Adaptation for Video Decoding Systems. IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol

56, No. 1, Jan. 2008.

B. Foo, D. Turaga, O. Verscheure, M. van der Schaar, L. Amini. Resource

Constrained Stream Mining with Classifier Tree Topologies, IEEE Signal

Processing Letters, May. 2008.

B. Foo, D. Turaga, O. Verscheure, M. van der Schaar, L. Amini. Configuring

Cascades of Classifiers in Distributed Stream Mining Systems, IEEE TCSVT,

accepted with major revisions, June 2008.

Journal Papers B. Foo, M. van der Schaar. Informationally-Decentralized System Resource

(Submitted) Management for Multiple Multimedia Tasks, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and

Distributed Systems, submitted July 2007.

B. Foo, M. van der Schaar. Distributed Optimization Solutions for Real-Time

Stream Mining Systems, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, submitted Nov 2007.

B. Foo, M. van der Schaar, A Rules-based Approach for Configuring Chains of

Classifiers in Real-Time Stream Mining Systems, to be submitted to IEEE TKDE

Special Issue: Mining Multimedia Streams in Large-Scale Distributed

Environments, May 2008.

Conference Papers B. Foo, M. van der Schaar, Distributed optimization for real-time multimedia

stream mining systems, SPIE Multimedia Content Access, Jan. 2008. (Invited

paper)

Z. Cao, B. Foo, L. He, M. van der Schaar, Optimality and Improvement of

Dynamic Voltage Scaling Algorithms for Multimedia Applications, Design

Automation Conference (DAC), 2008. (Nominated for best paper award)

B. Foo, M. van der Schaar, Joint Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Multiple

Video Decoding Tasks, SPIE Multimedia Communications and Networking, 2008.

B. Foo, D. Turaga, O. Verscheure, M. van der Schaar, L. Amini, Configuring

Trees of Classifiers in Distributed Stream Mining Systems, IBM Austin Center for

Advanced Studies, 2008.

B. Foo, Y. Andreopoulos, M. van der Schaar. Analytical Complexity Modeling of

Wavelet-based Video Coders. ICASSP 2007.

B. Foo, M. van der Schaar, Queuing-theoretic Processor Power Adaptation for

Video Decoding Systems. ICIP 2007.

D. Turaga, B. Foo, O. Verscheure, R. Yan, Configuring Topologies of Distributed

Semantic Concept Classifiers for Continuous Multimedia Stream

Processing, submitted to ACM Multimedia, 2008.

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