Osama A. Lotfallah

Osama A. Lotfallah is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Arizona State University since January 2005. He received his B.S. and Master's degrees from the School of Computer Engineering at Cairo University, Egypt, in July 1997 and July 2001, respectively. During his Master's study, he was working as Teacher Assistant in the Computer Science Department of Cairo University. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, in December 2004, under the supervision of Prof Sethuraman Panchanathan. He was actively involved in the teaching and research activities in the field of digital signal processing. He was also an active Member of the Video Traces Research Group of Arizona State University (http://trace.eas.asu.edu). His research interest is in the fields of advanced video coding, digital video processing, visual content extraction, and video streaming, with a focus on adaptive video transmission schemes. He has two provisional USA patents in the field of content-aware video streaming. He is a regular reviewer of many international conferences in the field of visual communication as well as periodical journal and magazines in the field of multimedia and signal processing.

Biography Updated on 4 October 2005