"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
-- Albert Einstein
Biography
Dr. Samuel Cheng received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong, and the M.Phil. degree in Physics and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2004. He worked in Microsoft Asia, China, and Panasonic Technologies Company, New Jersey, in the areas of texture compression and digital watermarking during the summers of 2000 and 2001. In 2004, he joined Advanced Digital Imaging Research, a research company based near Houston, Texas, as a Research Engineer to perform biomedical imaging research and was promoted to Senior Research Engineer the next year. He has several patent submissions and has been awarded three US patents in the area of digital watermarking. He is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi, and AAAS. His research interests include information theory, image/signal processing, and pattern recognition.
Footprints
I was born in Hong Kong. I spent my teenager years in Cheung Chuk Shan College. Then I studied in the Electrical and Electronic Department of the University of Hong Kong. I got a Master degree in Physics under the supervision of Dr. Che-Ting Chan in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. I spent one and half year to get my second Master degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii. Then, I moved to Texas with my advisor (Dr. Zixiang Xiong) and finished my PhD in Electrical Engineering in Texas A&M University. I spent a summer in Microsoft Research Asia under the Dr. Jin Li's group in 2000 and another summer in Panasonic Lab with Dr. Heather Yu in New Jersey. I joined Advanced Digital Imaging Research after finishing my Ph.D. I worked under Dr. Qiang Wu at that time.