UC San Diego Researcher Wins Top Ph.D. Award in Multimedia Computing

Wanmin Wu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Calit2 Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems at UC San Diego. A researcher now at the University of California, San Diego, Wanmin Wu, wrote the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation worldwide last year in the field of multimedia computing, and applications, according to an international jury of top experts. The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) singles out one thesis each year for the award, and the 2012 honor went to Wu, who is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems (CWPHS), part of the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Tele and Information Technology (Calit2). Wu wrote her dissertation, "Human-Centric Control of Video Functions and Underlying Resources in 3D Tele-immersive Systems," to complete her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. "Wu's dissertation documents fundamental work in the area of unifying systems and user-centric approaches to managing information flows for supporting 3D tele-immersive environments," according to the SIGMM Ph.D.