Dr. Paul Bao: IT Program Director and Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology Engineering, University of South Florida, USA
Paul Bao obtained a B. A. and a Master degrees in Mathematics from Chongqing University in 1981 and Southwest Jiaotong University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Calgary, Canada in 1988.
Dr. Bao served on the faculty of Computer Science Department, University of Calgary from 1988 to 1990 and then proceeded to working in IBM Canada as a senior staff analyst in 1990-1995. He was an associate professor in the Computing Department, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a visiting professor in the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a professor in Nanyang Technological University from 1995 to 2005. He is currently IT Program Director and an associate professor in Department of Information Technology Engineering , University of South Florida Engineering.
Dr. Bao’s research interests are in Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Image-based Remote Rendering and Walkthrough, Networked Multimedia systems and Image/Video Coding, Medical Imaging; Pattern Recognition, etc. He has been awarded over US$1,000,000 in research grants from various funding organizations during his academic tenure and has served in program committees for numerous international conferences. Dr. Bao has published over 60 journal papers and given over 60 conference presentations in those areas. Dr. Bao is a senior member of IEEE.
