Jin Li is a principal researcher of Microsoft Research, Communication and Collaboration Systems group. His research interest focuses on media compression, media communication and peer-to-peer applications. If you are interested, please visit the research project page. You may find links to demo code there as well. If you are interested in the details of his research, please visit the publication page.

Jin received his B.S., M.S and Ph.D. degree from the Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, all with honors. Before coming to Microsoft Research Redmond, he worked as a project leader at Microsoft Research China, Beijing, China. He is also an affliated professor for Tsinghua University, Beijing, China since Jan. 2000. Prior to that, He was a member of technical staff at the Sharp Laboratories of America(SLA), Camas, WA. From Aug. 1994 to Oct. 1996, He was an associate researcher at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA. He worked at the Integrated Media Science Center (IMSC) and the Center for Applied Mathematical Science(CAMS).

 

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> Genearl Research Interests

- Peer-to-Peer Technologies
- Scalable coding
- Audio compression and streaming
- Graphic compression and streaming
- Video compression and streaming
- Image compression and streaming

Please find more detailed information in "Current Research"

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> Professional Activities

Jin is a senior member of IEEE. Currently, he serves as an area editor for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation and an associate editor for the IEEE Transaction on Multimedia. He is the co-organizer for ACM MM’2005 workshop on advanced P2P streaming and QShine’2006 workshop on recent advances in P2P streaming, and is the lead guest editor on the special issue of “Content storage and delivery in peer-to-peer networks” for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia. He has been TPC members of more than a dozen conferences. Jin received the 1998 SPIE and IS&T Visual Communication and Image Processing Young Investigator Award in 1998.