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Prof. Kot has been with the Nanyang Technological
University (NTU), Singapore since
1991. He headed the Division of Information Engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering (EEE)
for eight years. The Division’s focuses are on signal processing for image,
video, speech and audio. He was the Vice Dean Research and Associate Chair
(Research) for the School of EEE for three years, overseeing the research
activities for the School with over 200 faculty members. He is currently
Professor and the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) for the College of
Engineering (COE) and
Program Director for Center for Information Security. He has published
extensively with over 200 technical papers in the areas of signal
processing for communication, biometrics recognition, data-hiding,
authentication and image forensics for digital media. He has two USA and one Singapore patents
granted.
Dr. Kot served as Associate Editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing from 2000 to 2003, IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia from 2008 to now, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for
Video Technology from 2000 to 2005; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems Part II from 2004 to 2006; and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems Part I from 2005 to 2007. He served as Guest Editor for the Special
Issues for the IEEE Transactions on CSVT and JASP. He was a member of the
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Steering Committee and a member of the IEEE
SP Image and Multi-dimensional DSP Technical Committee. Currently, he is in
the Senior Editorial Board of IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Signal
Processing, the Editorial Board member for the EURASIP Journal of Advanced
Signal Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is also
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and
Security, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Signal Processing
Letters.
He is a member of the IEEE Information Forensics and
Security and the IEEE CAS
Visual Signal Processing and Communication Technical Committees. He has
served the IEEE in various capacities such as the General Co-Chair for the
2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) and
area/track chairs for several IEEE flagship conferences. He also served as
the IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer Program
Coordinator and the Chapters Chair for IEEE Signal Processing Chapters
worldwide. He received the Best Teacher of The Year Award at NTU, the
Microsoft MSRA Award and as a co-author for the ICPR2008 Best Biometrics
Student Paper Award in Florida, USA, the IWDW2010 Best Paper Award in
Seoul, Korea and the ISCAS2010 Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award in
Paris, France, the IEEE WIFS Best Student Paper Silver Award and the IEEE
ICCT 2011 Best Paper Award. He was elected as the IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore,
a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IES.
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