Dr. Chao TIAN

AT&T Labs-Reseach
180 Park Ave.
Florham Park, NJ 07932

Email: tian (at) research(dot)att(dot)com


Short bio

Dr. Tian received the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) from 2005 to 2007. He joined AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, New Jersey in 2007. Dr. Tian received the Liu-Memorial Award at Cornell University in 2004 for excellence in graduate study and research.


Research interest

  • Information theory: source coding with side informations, multiple descriptions, joint source-channel coding;
  • Quantization: multiple description quantization, quantization analysis and design;
  • Image/video coding and processing;
  • Computer vision, computer algorithm.

Research publications


Academic activity:

  • Invited reviewers: IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory; IEEE Trans. Circuit and System on Video Tech.; IEEE Trans. Signal Processing; IEEE Trans. Image Processing; IEEE Signal Processing Letters; IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing; ACM Trans. Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications; IEEE Trans. Circuit and System I; IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; Signal Processing (Elsevier); Signal, Video and Image Processing (Springer).
  • Conference TPC member: ChinaCom08

My hometown

My hometown: Harbin, a very cold place.