SHAOSHUAI GAO, Ph.D.

100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8920

Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Work: 301-975-5357

Home: 240-422-9192

Email: sgao@nist.gov

Qualifications & Skills

• Extensive knowledge of video coding, image processing, and wireless networking programs.
• Programming languages (Proficient): C/C++
• Programming languages (Familiar): Java, Visual Basic, Tcl/Tk
• Software and tools: Visual C++, MATLAB, Microsoft Office, Qualnet, LaTeX.
• Operating environments: MS Windows98/2000/NT/XP, UNIX/LINUX
• Image and video standards: JPEG, JPEG2000, H.261, H.263, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC
• Communication protocols: TCP, RTP, UDP, IP, IEEE 802.11, H.223

Professional Experience

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST), Maryland 2004 – Present

Guest Researcher

Advanced Network Technologies Division

· Developing a motion-tracking scheme for crash prevention and safety systems.

· Developing a multiple description video coding scheme in accordance with the multi-path characteristics of ad-hoc channels.

· Packet Video Quality Subjective Assessment in Public Safety Communication Scenarios.

NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, Singapore 2003 – 2004

Research Fellow

Division of Information Engineering

· Developing a novel H.264 based error-resilient video coding approach named as two-way decodable variable length data blocks (TDVLDB). This approach can realize complete two-way decoding of H.264 coded bit streams.

Education & Honors

GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Beijing, China

Ph.D. of Science in Information Science and Technology, 2003

Major: Signal and information processing

Thesis: “Video Coding and Transmission over Wireless Networks.”

· Award for Excellence in Research Report, Feb. 2002

· ZHANGZONGZHI Scholarship, Oct. 2000

· Excellence Student Scholarship, July 1999

TIANJIN UNIVERSITY, Tianjin, China

Bachelor of Science in Automation, 1998

· University Scholarship, four college terms of 1994-1998

Professional Activities

Reviewer:

• IEEE Trans. Circuit Syst. Video Technol
• IEEE Trans. Multimedia
• Signal Processing: Image Communication
• Proceedings of IEEE
• IEE Proceedings Communications
• IEE Electronic Letters

Languages

• Chinese: native
• English: reading, writing, and speaking fluently

Journal Publications

• Hamid Gharavi, Shaoshuai Gao, “3-D Motion Estimation Using Range Data”, IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 133–143, Mar. 2007.
• Shaoshuai Gao, Guofang Tu, “Adaptive Localization of Switch Point of Partial Backward Decodable Bit Stream (PBDBS)”, Journal of Acta Electronica Sinica (in Chinese), vol. 32, no. 4, 2004, pp. 562-566.
• Shao-Shuai Gao, Guo-Fang Tu, “Robust H.263+ video transmission using partial backward decodable bit stream (PBDBS)”, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 182-187, Feb. 2003.
• Guofang Tu, Shaoshuai Gao, Can Zhang, “Interframe prediction coding of medical image using a wavelet transform”, Journal of electronics and information technology (in Chinese), vol. 24, no. 4, 2002, pp. 439-444.
• Shaoshuai Gao, Guofang Tu, “H.263 video decode based error check and concealment”, Journal of China Institute of Communications (in Chinese), vol. 22, no.12, 2001, pp. 82-87.

Conference Proceedings

• Hamid Gharavi, Shaoshuai Gao, “3-D Segmentation and Motion Estimation of Range Data for Crash Prevention”, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2007 (IV’07), accepted, 2007.
• Hamid Gharavi, Shaoshuai Gao, “Recursive Motion Estimation of Range Image”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’07), April 2007, Hawaii, USA.
• Shaoshuai Gao, Hamid Gharavi, “Multiple Description Video Coding over Multiple Path Routing Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT'06), August 2006, France.
• Shaoshuai Gao, Can Zhang, “Two-way Decodable Variable Length Data Blocks For Robust Video Transmission”, In Proc. SPIE Conf. Visual Communications and Image Processing 2004, vol. 5308, pp. 1277-1285. 2004.
• Shaoshuai Gao, Guofang Tu, “Early Resynchronization, Error Detection and Error Concealment for Reliable Video Decoding”, In Proc. ICCT’2003, 2003, pp. 1133-1136.
• Shaoshuai Gao, Guofang Tu, “H.263 video decode based error detection and concealment”, In Proc. SPIE Conf. Wireless and Mobile Communications, APOC 2001, Beijing, China, 2001, pp. 513-520.