Experience

Telaria

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Technical Operations

  • Jul 2014 - Present

  - Lead technical onboarding and optimization strategies for increasing publisher revenue. - Evaluated, selected, and integrated vendor technologies to Tremor’s video advertising platform, e.g., DSPs (e.g. Google DBM), SSPs (e.g., Spotx), DMPs (e.g., BlueKai), and cross-device audience association (e.g., CrossWise), and fraud/viewability detection (e.g., MOAT) technologies. - Lead technical onboarding and optimization strategies for increasing publisher revenue. - Evaluated, selected, and integrated vendor technologies to Tremor’s video advertising platform, e.g., DSPs (e.g. Google DBM), SSPs (e.g., Spotx), DMPs (e.g., BlueKai), and cross-device audience association (e.g., CrossWise), and fraud/viewability detection (e.g., MOAT) technologies.



Adap.tv

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Services Manager

  • Apr 2013 - Jul 2014

  - Served as member of a small internal "consulting"​ and training team for internal and client-facing technical matters across all Adap.tv's platform components, e.g., ad server, marketplace, SSP, and DMP. - Co-chaired the company's mobile task force and drove the improvement of mobile product and business offerings. - Troubleshot highest tiered technical issues escalated from internal/external customers; supervised/coached Tier 1 and 2 tech support team.- Improved product usability/value by studying and addressing clients'​ technical needs and provided guidance of building new product features. - Delivered technical customization services on top of platform's API.



Dialogic

• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Member of Technical Staff

  • Oct 2009 - Jul 2012

  - Researched, designed, and built real-time analytic solutions of quality monitoring and content identification for H.264/MPEG2/MPEG4 video.- Led the R&D projects of advanced light-weighted image/video quality evaluation and content recognition/identification/tracking algorithms.- Represented the company and prompted its visibility by hosting/participating in international standardization meetings and workshops.- Prepared dozens of technical documents for internal and external publications, and secured 5+ intellectual properties.



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research/Teaching Assitant

  • Sep 2004 - Dec 2009

  - Performed researches in image/video processing and analyzing field, especially in video quality evaluation and enhancement area.- Published 10+ technical papers in leading international conferences and journals. - Led team of graduate assistants for research activities.- Assisted teaching of two graduate-level multimedia courses. - Performed researches in image/video processing and analyzing field, especially in video quality evaluation and enhancement area.- Published 10+ technical papers in leading international conferences and journals. - Led team of graduate assistants for research activities.- Assisted teaching of two graduate-level multimedia courses.



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern Researcher

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  - Developed an advanced multimedia identification and retrieval system, whose performance was ranked 1st out of 50+ competing submissions in '09 TRECVID international campaign.- Analyzed, indexed and retrieved 2000+ query video clips, subject to various transformations (e.g. scaling, Gaussian noise and blur, encoding artifact, and texture pattern insertion), from 400+ hours test video collection, by extracting both local and global video features. - Developed an advanced multimedia identification and retrieval system, whose performance was ranked 1st out of 50+ competing submissions in '09 TRECVID international campaign.- Analyzed, indexed and retrieved 2000+ query video clips, subject to various transformations (e.g. scaling, Gaussian noise and blur, encoding artifact, and texture pattern insertion), from 400+ hours test video collection, by extracting both local and global video features.



Technicolor Creative Studios

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern Researcher/Research Assistant

  • Jul 2005 - Dec 2008

  - Developed a novel perceived video quality model considering both coding and packet-loss artifacts for low-resolution and low bit-rate videos, coded in H.264 video standard, with packet losses in 3G wireless networks.- Analyzed and modeled human visual perception properties, e.g. masking effect and lamination adaptation, on images and videos, and integrated them into perceptual quality metric, which brought about 40% improvement over traditional methods. - Performed various subjective video quality evaluation experiments.