Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, in 1980 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He is presently Director of the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Southern California (USC).

His research interests are in the areas of digital image/video analysis and modeling, multimedia data compression, communication and networking, and biological signal/image processing. Dr. Kuo has guided about 95 students to their Ph.D. degrees and supervised 20 postdoctoral research fellows. Currently, his research group at USC has around 30 Ph.D. students, which is one of the largest academic research groups in multimedia technologies. He is co-author of about 160 journal papers, 780 conference papers and 9 books. He delivered about 420 invited lectures in conferences, research institutes, universities and companies.

Dr. Kuo is a Fellow of IEEE and SPIE. He is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (an Elsevier journal), and Editor for the Journal of Information Science and Engineering, LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security (a Springer journal), the Journal of Advances in Multimedia (a Hindawi journal) and the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing (a Hindawi journal). He was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 2003-2004. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 1995-98, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 1995-1997 and IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing in 2001-2003.

Dr. Kuo received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (NYI) and Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He received the Northrop Junior Faculty Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 1994. He received the best paper awards from the multimedia communication Technical Committee of the IEEE Communication Society in 2005, from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Fall Conference (VTC-Fall) in 2006, and from IEEE Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP) in 2006. He was an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2006, and a recipient of the Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2007. He is also Advisor to the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture Television Engineers)-USC student chapter.