Rong Zhao

Rank/Position Title:

Research Assistant Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rzhao

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

September 1, 2001

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME ’05).
• Program Committee Member, IADIS International Conference on e-Society (e-Society ’05)
• Program Committee Member, the 3 rd Special Workshop on Multimedia Semantics (WMS ’05)
• Microsoft Academic Days, 2005.
• Grant Panelist, NSF Information & Intelligent Systems Division, 2004.
• Grant Panelist, First Steps to Market Program, United States Civilian Research & Development Foundation, 2004.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME ’04)
• Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, 2004.
• International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST '03).
• The 25 th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (MNSA '03).

Other related computing experience:

• Developed and taught “Software Engineering”, “Patterns in Programming”, “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming” and “Analysis, Modeling & Design” in the Northrop Grumman System Engineering program.
• Developed and taught “Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering” and “Software Engineering & UML” at Stony Brook University’s Center for Emerging Technologies.
• Computer Science Coordinator, Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR), Stony Brook University.
• Committee Member, Long Island Software and Technology Network (LISTnet).
• Committee Member, Hauppauge Industrial Association (HIA).

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• Scholarship Selection Committee, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University.
• Advisory Committee, Center for Emerging Technologies, Stony Brook University.

Principal publications of the last five years.

• R. Zhao and W. I. Grosky, Video Shot Detection Using Color Anglogram and Latent Semantic Indexing: From Contents to Semantics, The Handbook of Video Databases: Design and Applications, B. Furht and O. Marques (Eds.), CRC Press, 2003, pp. 371-392.
• R. Zhao and W. I. Grosky, Semantics-Friendly Feature Extraction and Indexing for Geographic Image Retrieval, NSF Japan-US Workshop on Annotation and Resource Discovery of Geographic Image Data, Nikko, Japan, 2003.
• R. Zhao and W. I. Grosky, A Novel Video Shot Detection Technique Using Color Anglogram and Latent Semantic Indexing, the 25th International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications, Providence, Rhode Island, 2003.
• R. Zhao and W. I. Grosky, Extracting Semantic Information in Geographic Image Data: Some Preliminary Results, International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003.
• R. Zhao and W. I. Grosky, Narrowing the Semantic Gap - Improved Text-Based Web Document Retrieval Using Visual Features, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 4(2), 2002, pp. 189-200.
• R. Zhao and W. I. Grosky, Negotiating the Semantic Gap: From Feature Maps to Semantic Landscapes, Pattern Recognition, 35(3), 2002, pp. 593-600.
• W. I. Grosky and R. Zhao, From Context-Free to Context-Sensitive Content-Based Retrieval, MLabNet 2001 Workshop: Advanced Multimedia Systems and Applications, Karuizawa, Japan, 2001.
• W. I. Grosky and R. Zhao, Improved Text-Based Web Document Retrieval Using Visual Features, the 1st International Conference on Integration of Multimedia Contents, Gwangju, Korea, 2001.
• W. I. Grosky and R. Zhao, Negotiating the Semantic Gap: From Feature Maps to Semantic Landscapes, the 28th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, Piestany, Slovak, 2001.
• R. Zhao and W. I. Grosky, Bridging the Semantic Gap in Image Retrieval, Distributed Multimedia Databases: Techniques and Applications, T. K. Shih (Ed.), Idea Group Publishing, 2001, pp. 14-36.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

All of the following grants funded graduate and/or undergraduate student to work on computer science related research and development projects for at least one full semester. Several students, both graduate and undergraduate students, have been offered employment after finishing their projects and graduate by companies listed below, including appliedE, eHomeCredit, SunGard Pentamation, and ZyDoc.

• 1. Automatic Stereo Image Processing System, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/inGenious Targeting Laboratory
• 2. Animal Control Database Development, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/inGenious Targeting Laboratory
• 3. Language Interpretation Application for PDA, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/Transcendent International
• 4. W-RAN Service Upgrades and UI Improvements, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/Best Mobile Computing
• 5. Wafer-Scale Production of Nanotube Tips for AFM, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/LifeAFM
• 6. Software System For Phenotype Tracking of Knock-Out Mice, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/inGenious Targeting Laboratory
• 7. New York State WCB POC Reporting, Workflow Application Deployment, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/USA Program Administrators
• 8. IDEA Web Form Project, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/SunGard Pentamation
• 9. PartnerOnline, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/appliedE
• 10. National Computerized Agencies Application Development, Deployment and Integration, New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR)/National Computerized Agencies

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member: IEEE

Honors and awards:

Three of the projects listed under item 10 (with appliedE, CosmoCom, and ZyDoc) have been recipients of the Long Island Software Awards (LISA) in the past two years.

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising:

• Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.
• Advisor for 16 graduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

• Web information retrieval and mining, including mining web documents with textual, visual, structural, and stylistic features, semantic-based clustering and categorization, financial information retrieval and analysis, semi-automated annotation, intelligent searching and content management, usage mining and personalization .
• Multimedia information retrieval and mining, including semantic-based image and video retrieval, integration of color, texture, shape, and spatial features, video shot detection, cross-modality retrieval and analysis, geographic image analysis, dermatology image analysis, semi-automated annotation, intelligent agents for multimedia content analysis