Past Highlights:

• Prof. van der Schaar and Multimedia Communications and Systems Laboratory organizes 2009 Southern California Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems (The registration is now open!)





• Tutorial on "A Systematic Framework for Cross-layer Optimization in Dynamic Communication Systems" at Globecom 2009





• Ph.D. student Fangwen Fu is awarded a prestigious 2009 prize from the Dimitris Chorafas Foundation.





• Ph.D. student Yi Su is one of the 10 top PhD students selected for the 2009 Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop organized by IBM Research.





• On ramps into academia workshop (women faculty mentoring workshop)





• Prof. van der Schaar and Multimedia Communications and Systems Laboratory organizes Network Economics and Game Theory Symposium





• Ph.D. student Yi Su is awarded the 2009-2010 Dissertation Year Fellowship.





• Ph.D. student Shaolei Ren ranks the first in the Signal and Systems Area in Ph.D. Preliminary Examination, April 2009.





• Professor Mihaela van der Schaar receives the Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award from IBM Research Watson.





• Tutorial on Games, Distributed Decision Making and Learning in Wireless Multimedia Networks at IEEE Globecom 2008.





• Ph.D. student Fangwen Fu is one of the 12 top PhD students selected for the 2008 Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop organized by IBM Research.





• Paper "Multiuser Multimedia Resource Allocation over Multicarrier Wireless Networks" among the top-10 most downloaded papers for May, 2008.





• Upcoming Conferences: PV2009 WIAMIS2009 CIP2010





• Peter Shiang was selected to receive an NSF Travel for DySpan 2008.





• Two of Prof. van der Schaar's papers are listed as Top 100 SPIE Downloads on Video Compression
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• Prof. van der Schaar receives IBM Faculty Award for 2008.
  The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive international program to foster collaboration among researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM organizations and to promote educational innovation in disciplines and locales of strategic importance to IBM.?

• New UCLA Extension Course: Multimedia Communications and Networking
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• New Book: MULTIMEDIA OVER IP and WIRELESS NETWORKS (M. van der Schaar, P. Chou, editors). ACADEMIC PRESS, 2007
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• Peter Shiang is one of the 8 top PhD students selected for the 2007 Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop organized by IBM Research.





• Paper of Prof. van der Schaar (with Y. Andreopoulos, A. Munteanu, J. Barbarien, J. Cornelis and P. Schelkens) wins the Most Cited Paper Award from Elsevier EURASIP for the period of 2004-2006 of the EURASIP Jounal Signal Processing: Image Communication.
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