Wenwu Zhu is a Senior Researcher at Internet Media Group of Microsoft Research Asia. Prior to his current post, he was a Principal Architect at Microsoft Advanced Technology Center from 2008 to 2009. He was the Director and Chief Scientist of Intel Communication Technology Lab China as well as an Intel's Principal Engineer from 2004 to 2008. He was with Microsoft Research Asia as a Project Leader at Internet Media Group and the founding Research Manager of Wireless and Networking Group from October 1999 to 2004. He worked at Bell Labs as Member of Technical Staff during 1996-1999. He has published over 200 referred papers in the areas of video communications over the Internet and wireless, and wireless communications and networking. He participated in the IETF ROHC WG on robust TCP/IP header compression over wireless links and IEEE 802.16m WG standardization. He is inventor or co-inventor of over 40 patents. His current research interests are in the area of multimedia communications and networking.
Wenwu Zhu has served on various editorial boards of IEEE journals, such as Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE JSAC, and IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine; Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He received the Best Paper Award in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2001 from IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the Best Paper Award in Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (MMTC) of IEEE Communications Society in 2004 . He is the past Chair and Secretary of Visual Signal Processing and Communication Technical Committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2004-2008), and served in the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2007-2010). He currently serves as the Chair of IEEE Circuits and System Society Beijing Chapter, editor board of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and advisory board of International Journal of Handheld Computing Research. He wil serve as TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ISCAS 2013. Wenwu Zhu is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Wenwu Zhu received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from National University of Science and Technology, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, the M.S. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and the Ph.D. degree from Polytechnic Institute of NYU (New York University), New York, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
