The Twelfth IASTED International Conference on
Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications
~IMSA 2008~
August 18 – 20, 2008
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Biography of the Conference Chair
Mrinal Mandal received a B.E. in Electronics and Communications from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India in 1987 and a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 1998. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the Director of the Multimedia Computing and Communications Laboratory at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He has authored the book Multimedia Signals and Systems (Kluwer Academic), and co-authored the book Continuous and Discrete Time Signals and Systems (Cambridge University Press). His current research interests include Multimedia, Image and Video Processing, Multimedia Communications, and VLSI architecture. He has published over 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He has been Principal Investigator of projects funded by Canadian Networks of Centers of Excellence such as CITR and MICRONET, and is currently the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the NSERC.
