Monday, October 5, 2015
Electrical and computer engineering professor Zhou Wang has won an Engineering Emmy® Award for his co-creators of Structural Similarity (SSIM), a mathematical formula and computer algorithm that is now widely used throughout the television industry.
![Zhou Wang and his colleagues with their awards.](/engineering/sites/default/files/uploads/images/zhou_wang_emmy.jpg)
Wang, well known for his research, was recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists for his leadership in image processing and multimedia communications.