Zhou Wang

Dr. Zhou Wang is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) – Academy of Science, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). In addition, he is a certified Professional Engineer.

Dr. Wang has received numerous prestigious awards, including the 2021 Faculty of Engineering Excellence in Graduate Supervision Award, 2021 Technology Emmy Award, 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Sustained Impact Paper Award, and 2015 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award. Other accolades include the 2014 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship Award, 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and several NSERC and Ontario Early Researcher grants.

An active contributor to the academic community, Dr. Wang has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters, among others. He has also contributed to the IEEE Technical Committees on Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing and Multimedia Signal Processing.

Dr. Wang’s research interests encompass signal and image processing, computational vision and pattern analysis, multimedia coding and communications, and biomedical signal and image processing. With over 200 publications and more than 80,000 citations, his work has made a significant impact on the field.

• Image processing
• Digital signal processing
• Computational vision
• Pattern recognition
• Machine Learning
• Multimedia communications
• Image and video compression
• Visual perception
• Biomedical signal processing
• Medical imaging

• 2001, Doctorate Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, United States
• 1995, Master's Electronic and Communication Engineering, South China University of Technology, China
• 1993, Bachelor's Electronic & Information Engineering, with minor in Applied Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

• 2021 Faculty of Engineering Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision
• 2021 Technology Emmy Award, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
• 2019 Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Multimedia Quality-of-Experience
• 2018 Fellow of Royal Society of Canada - Academy of Science
• 2017 Faculty of Engineering Research Excellence Award
• 2016 Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering
• 2018 University Research Chair
• 2015 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
• 2014 NSERC Steaciea Memorial Fellowship
• 2014 Fellow of IEEE
• 2009 Early Researcher Award

• ECE 313 - Digital Signal Processing
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024
• ECE 413 - Digital Signal Processing
  • Taught in 2020
• ECE 417 - Image Processing
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• ECE 613 - Image Processing and Visual Communication
  • Taught in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• ECE 710 - Special Topics in Communications and Information Theory
  • Taught in 2021

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• Outstanding faculty and staff honoured
• Waterloo spin-off company wins second Emmy Award
• Prof to lead research project with TV tech company