... engineering andinformatics at DIBE, University of Genoa,Italy. In 2000, he joined the Advance Inter-active Systems Laboratory at VTT Electron-ics in Oulu, Finland, as an ERCIM Visit-ing ... M.S.degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing,China, in 1997, and the Ph.D. in elec-trical and computer engineering from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC), Urbana, Ill, in 2001. From ... Signal Processing Society Best PaperAward (2001), and an IEEE ICBE Best Paper Award (2006). Heis a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society(2006-07).Oscar Mayora obtained...