My name is Ziyue “Alan” Xiang (项子越), I am working as Senior Researcher at Tencent Media Lab. I am responsible for investigating video compression technologies in next generation international video coding standard (H.267). I am a member of Joint Video Experts Team (JVET, ITU-T SG 16 WP 3 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29). My research interests include computer vision, machine learning, media forensics, video processing, image processing, speech processing, video compression, and audio compression.
My latest CV can be found here.
I obtained my PhD from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette. I was advised by Prof. Edward J. Delp, under the VIPER lab.
I obtained MSc. in Computer Science degree from Syracuse University. I was a member of Prof. Daniel E. Acuna’s SOC+CD lab.
The pronunciation of my last name can be confusing for people that are not familiar with Mandarin Chinese. It somehow resembles the pronunciation of English name “Shawn”. Hence, the domain name is “alanshawn”.