Dihong Tian, Ph.D.

Dihong Tian, Ph.D.

Dihong Tian was born and grew up in Chishui, Guizhou, a small city in this southwestern province in China. With his prize in the National Chemistry Olympiad for high school students, he entered the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1995 as a waiver of the national college entrance exam. At USTC, he studied in the Special Class for the Gifted Young (SCGY) for 4 years and received his Bachelor’s degree in computer science and technology with the highest honor. From 1999 to 2002, he worked at UTStarcom (China) Co., Ltd. as an R&D engineer on 3G/W-CDMA wireless communications systems. From 2002 to 2006, he was with the Center for Signal and Image Processing (CSIP) at Georgia Institute of Technology, pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering. His Ph.D. research was devoted to multimedia coding, communications and networking, particularly on video and three-dimensional graphics. He spent the summer in 2005 at NVIDIA Corporation as a hardware engineer intern, where he worked on H.264 video codec development for handheld platform.

Dr. Tian joined Cisco Systems, Inc. at San Jose, California after receiving his Ph.D. degree, where he is currently a Sr. Software Engineer with focuses on research and development of advanced video coding/processing architecture and algorithms for Cisco TelePresence, which creates life-like, in-person experiences between individuals, businesses, and events.

Dr. Tian was the recipient of the Guo Mo-Ruo Award from University of Science and Technology of China and the Outstanding Research Award from the Center for Signal and Image Processing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published 20 technical papers on multimedia coding and networking and holds 14 pending U.S. patent applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

(Last Modified: November, 2008)