Dr. Nam Ling received a B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Singapore, an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree, both in Computer Engineering, from U.S.A. After completing his Ph.D. in 1989, Dr. Ling joined Santa Clara University, California, U.S.A., where he is currently a full Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering and the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) for the School of Engineering. He was a Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in 1998 and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore) in August 2002 and February 2004. Dr. Ling is also a Consulting Professor and Honorary Advisor to the National University of Singapore (NUS America, Inc.) since September 2002.

Dr. Ling has more than 100 research publications in the fields of video coding/decoding, video streaming, and systolic arrays. His current active research is in the areas of bit rate and error control for H.264 and for the future Scalable Video Coding (SVC). He is the primary author of the book entitled Specification and Verification of Systolic Arrays (1999). Dr. Ling received research support and funding from U.S. National Science Foundation and from hi-tech companies such as Nortel Networks, IBM, and New Japan Radio, in the Silicon Valley.

Dr. Ling received Arthur Vining Davis Junior Faculty Fellowship in 1991 and the Santa Clara University Outstanding Achievement Award in Teaching, Research, and Service, in 1992. He was named 1999 Researcher of the Year by the School of Engineering, Santa Clara University. Dr. Ling also received the Santa Clara University Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship in 2002. Dr. Ling was named 2002-2003 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Besides research, Dr. Ling teaches courses in video compression and computer architecture. He supervises students and is involved in engineering curriculum development. As Associate Dean, he oversees the engineering graduate programs and faculty research for Santa Clara University. Dr. Ling has conducted numerous colloquia at major Universities and companies in six different countries and consults at different companies and research organizations. He is among many Who's Whos.

Dr. Ling served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I. He is currently a Guest Co-Editor for the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (special issue on digital and computational video). In 1993 - 1995, Dr. Ling served as the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee (TC) on Microprocessors and Microcomputers. He is currently a member of the VSPC TC (IEEE CAS Society), the VSA TC (IEEE CAS Society), and the DISPS TC (IEEE SP Society). Dr. Ling was the General Chair of the IEEE Hot Chips Symposium in 1995. He served as a Program Chair for DCV'02 and SiPS'00, and as a Publication Co-Chair for the IEEE Workshop and Exhibition on MPEG-4 (2001 and 2002). He was a Track Co-Chair for ISCAS'04 and is currently a Track Co-Chair for ISCAS'05. Dr. Ling also participated in the Singapore Digital TV Technical Committee in 1998. He served in program committees, organizing committees, and as session chairs for many IEEE conferences.

Dr. Han-Ping D. Shieh received his BS degree from National Taiwan University in 1975 and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. in 1987.

He joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan as a professor at Institute of Opto-Electronic Engineering and Microelectronics and Information Research Center (MIRC) in 1992 after as a Research Staff Member at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA since 1988. He now is AU Optronics chair professor and Associate Director, MIRC, NCTU. He founded Display Institute at NCTU in 2003, the first such kind of graduate academic institute in the world dedicated for display education and research. He is also holding a joint-appointment as a Research Fellow at Center for Applied Sciences and Engineering, Academia Sinica since 1999. He was appointed as a co-PI of "Display Science and Technology Large-Scale Project" in 2004, a national project to drive Taiwan display into new era.

His current research interests are in display, optical MEMS, nano-optical components, and optical data storage technologies. He currently serves as a Director, SID (Society for Information Display), and has served as program chair, committee member, organized conferences in major data storage (ISOM, MORIS, Intermag, ODS, APDSC) and display (SID, IDRC, ASID, FPD Expo, etc.). He has published more than 100 journal papers and has more 30 patents to his credit.