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Biographical Background

Profssor Jae S. Lim is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received the S.B., S.M., E.E., and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974, 1975, 1978, and 1978, respectively. He joined the MIT faculty in 1978 as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is the Director of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Program.

His research interests include digital signal processing and its applications to image, video and speech processing. He has contributed more than one hundred articles to journals and conference proceedings. He is the holder of more than 30 patents in the areas of Advanced Television Systems and Signal Compression. He is the editor of a reprint book, Speech Enchancement, and a co-editor of a reference book Advanced Topics in Signal Processing, published by Prentice-Hall in 1983 and 1987 respectively. He is also the author of a textbook Two-Dimensional Signal and Image Processing published by Prentice-Hall in 1990.

During the 1990's, he participated in the Federal Communication Commision's Advanced Television Standardization Process. He represented MIT in submitting an MIT/GI System, which became one of the four finalist systems. He also represented MIT when the four finalist systems became a single system through the formation of the Grand Alliance. The Grand Alliance HDTV System became the basis for the U.S. Digital Television Standard adopted by the FCC in December, 1996.

Dr. Lim is the recipient of many awards including the Senior Award from the IEEE ASSP Society and the Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. He is a fellow of the IEEE.