Zhihai He received the B.S. degree with honors in Mathematics from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China in 1994, M.S. degree in Computational Mathematics from the Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China, in 1997, and Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, in 2001. After two years' research and development experience at David Sarnoff Research Center (Sarnoff Corporation), Princeton, NJ, Dr. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, in August 2003. Currently, he is an assistant professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. He's research is the areas of visual signal processing, data compression, network communication, wireless video, computer vision, embedded multimedia system design, aerial video surveillance, security monitoring, collaborative intelligence of mobile agents (unmanned ground and aerial vehicles and robots), tele-medicine, and environmental tracking. While at Sarnoff, Dr. He designed one of the first embedded DSP MPEG-4 encoding systems for real-time video communication applications, such as portable news coverage, security monitoring, and digital entertainment. He also developed an end-to-end video communication systems for real-time high-quality airborne video surveillance. Recently, Dr. He has participated in the interdisciplinary (multi-department and multi-university) research and development of wireless video sensor network technologies for large-scale video surveillance, security monitoring, environmental tracking, and wildlife disease control.
Dr. He received the 2002 IEEE Circuits and System Society Best Paper Award and the 2003 SPIE Young Investigator Award for his contribution to theories and technologies in video processing and network communication.