Yang Can

Biography

Dr. Yang Can is currently an advanced professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of South China University of Technology (SCUT) since 2012. He hasbecome an associate professor and the director of new media lab in SCUT since 2005. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) from 2002 to 2004. He received his Ph.D. and bachelor degree at the Department of Electronic Science and Technology in 2002 and in 1994, and his master degree at Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control in 1997, respectively, all from HUST. He was a visiting scholar at the Polytechnic School of Engineering of New York University from 2013 to 2014. His interest focuses on multimedia computing,peer to peer networking, information theory and coding,especially on video. He won the first level of the Science and Technology Progressive Award of Canton in 2015 and the second level in 2012, and also the Sci. and Tech. Innovation Award of SARFT of China in 2012. He have published mort than 50 papers and invented 18 patents. He is a member of IEEE and ACM and a senior member of CCF.

Research Interest

Multimedia Computing and Communication, IP-Based TV, Video on Demand and Media Streaming, Big Data and Cloud Data Engineering, Information Theory and Coding