Hayder Radha

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Ph.D.
  Columbia University, 1993
  New York, NY
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  NSF Center for Telecommunications Research
  Advisor: Professor Martin Vetterli
• Ph.M.
  Columbia University, 1991
  New York, NY
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  NSF Center for Telecommunications Research
  Advisor: Professor Martin Vetterli
• M.S.
  Purdue University, 1986
  West Lafayette, IN
  School of Electrical Engineering
• B.S.
  Michigan State University (Honors), 1984
  Department of Electrical Engineering

radha@egr.msu.edu

Research Interest

Coding and communications; image and signal processing; visual content representation, source coding and communications; transmission of visual and multimedia data over the Internet and wireless networks; modeling and analysis of the stochastic behavior of communication networks; wavelet, subband, and multiresolution coding and processing.

Experience

• 2006 - Present
  Michigan State University
  Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2000 - 2006
  Michigan State University
  Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 1996 - 2000
  Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY
  Philips Research Fellow
  Consulting Scientist
  Principal Member of Research Staff
• 1986 - 1996
  Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
  Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
  Member of Technical Staff

Teaching

• ECE 867 Information Theory
• ECE 868 Signal Compression
• ECE 863 Analysis of Stochastic Systems
• ECE 802 Multimedia Networking
• ECE 466 Digital Signal Processing and Filter Design
• ECE 457 Communication Systems
• ECE 366 Introduction to Signal Processing
• ECE 202 Circuits and systems

Honors / Awards

• IEEE Fellow, 2009
• Philips Research Fellow, 2000
• Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award - in recognition of outstanding research achievements in engineering , 2003
• Microsoft Research Content and Curriculum Award
• Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award,'93
• Inventor/co-inventor of 27 US patents
• Philips Research Group Accomplishment Award, 2000
• AT&T Circle of Excellence Award, 1994
• Bell Laboratories Ambassador Award, 1993
• Bell Laboratories VECTOR Award, 1992
• Bell Laboratories Diversity Awards '92,'93,'94
• Bell Laboratories Graduate Study Assistantship, 1986 -1992
• Michigan State University Bachelor of Science with Honors, 1984 (completed B.S. with honors in three years)
• National Electrical Engineering Honor Society
• The Engineering Honor Society

Publications

See List of Publications

Book Chapters

• Syed A. Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Wireless Channel Modeling," book chapter, Multimedia Networking, Elsevier Science. (in prep.)
• H. Radha, C. Ngu, T. Sato, and M. Balakrishnan, "Multimedia over Wireless," book chapter, Advances in Multimedia: Systems, Standards, and Networks, Marcel Dekker, Inc., March 2000.
• R. Cohen and H. Radha, "Video Streaming," book chapter, to appear in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, J. Proakis, editor.

Selected Technical Reports

• H. Radha,"An Optimization Framework for Seamless Splicing," Philips Research, November 1997.
• H.R. Rabiee and H. Radha,"Video Teleconferencing Over ISDN and the Internet," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, December 1995.
• H. Radha, "Low Bit-Rate Image Compression Using Binary Trees," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, ITD-94-24380A, 1994.
• H. Radha and R. Staab and "Video Codec Evaluation with Impaired Images," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, ITD-94-23733W, 1994.
• H.R. Rabiee and H. Radha,"Cell Loss Recovery Using Recursive Nonlinear Filters," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, December 1994.
• H. Rabiee and H.Radha, "Pre- and Post Processing Algorithms for Video Compression Applications," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, November 1993.
• R. W. Hawley and H.Radha, "Modeling the Impact of Transmission Errors on Compressed Video Data," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, August 1993.
• H. Radha, "Least-Square Binary Partitioning of L2 Functions with Convex Domains," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, September 1990.
• H. Radha, "Image Processing Benchmark Models for Second-Generation Pixel Machines," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, August 25, 1989.
• H. Radha, "Comparative Analysis of Shared-Memory Queuing Models," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, April 1989.
• H. Radha and E. J. Grijalva, "Digital and Analog Backup Network Optimization Model," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, November 1988.
• H. Radha, "Correlation Model Relating Severely Errored Events and Severely Errored Seconds on Digital Data Systems," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, April 1987.
• H. Radha, "Statistical Data Analysis of Severely Errored Events on International Data Digital Systems," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum, 54117-870129-01IM, January 1987.

Patents

• US Patent 5,274,718,"Image representation using tree-like structures," Filed, September 30, 1991; Granted, December 28, 1993.
• US Patent 6,134,352,"Spatial error concealment for image processing," Filed: May 21, 1996; Granted: October 17, 2000.
• US Patent 6,154,496,"Video buffer for seamless splicing of MPEG streams," Filed: November 25, 1997; Granted: November 28, 2000.
• US Patent 6,049,569,"Method and apparatus for encoding digital video bit streams with seamless splice points and method and apparatus for splicing such digital video bit streams," Filed December 9, 1997; Granted, April 11, 2000.
• US Patent 5,740,280,"Image representation using tree-like structures (Part II)," Filed: October 1, 1993. Granted: April 14, 1998.
• US Patent 6,292,512,"Scalable video coding system," Filed: July 6, 1998; Granted: September 18, 2001.
• US Patent US# 09/365.463 - PHA 23,537"Decoder Buffer for Streaming Video Receiver and Method of Operation," Filed: August 2, 1999.
• US Patent 60/167,067 09/590,825 - PHA 23,852P"Hybrid Temporal-SNR Fine-Granular-Scalability Video Coding," Filed: November 23, 1999.
• US Patent 09/440.622 PHA 23,831"System and Method for Controlling the Delay Budget of a Decoder Buffer in a Streaming Data Receiver," Filed: November 15, 1999.
• US Patent 09/578,286,"Bit-plane Dependent Signal Compression," Filed: May 25, 2000.
• US Patent (Provisional Filing),"Video TranScaling for the Wireless Internet," Filed July 2000.
• US Patent PHA 23,510"System for Controlling Data Output to a Network," Filed: October 23, 1998.
• US Patent PHA 23,725"System and Method for Improved Fine Granular Scalable Video Using Base Layer Coding Information," Filed: July 6, 1999.
• US Patent 6,263,022,"System and method for fine granular scalable video with selective quality enhancement," Filed: July 6, 1999; Granted: July 17, 2001.
• US Patent 09/411,464 - PHA 23,798"System and Method for Encoding and Decoding Enhancement Layer Data Using Base Layer Quantization Data," Filed: October 1, 1999.
• US Patent 09/419,672 - PHA 23,804"System and Method for Encoding and Decoding The Residual Signal for Fine Granular Scalable Video," October 15, 1999.
• US Patent PHA 23,913"Scalable Video with Embedded DCT Coding of the Enhancement Layer," December 20, 1999.
• US Patent 09/516,035,"Method and Apparatus for Streaming Scalable Video," Filed: March 1, 2000.
• US Patent 60/217,827 09/887,747,"Method and Apparatus for Improved Efficiency in Transmission of Fine Granular Scalable Selective Enhanced Images," Filed: July 12, 2000.
• US Patent 60/234,499,"Motion-Compensation Fine Granular Scalability," Filed: September 22, 2000.
• US Patent,"Method for Efficient Retransmission Timeout Estimation in NACK-based Protocols," Filed: February 2001.
• US Patent PHA5005-1-003,"Method and Device for Robust Real-time Estimation of the Bottleneck Bandwidth in the Internet," March 2001.
• US Patent US010212,"Totally Embedded FGS Video Coding with Motion Compensation," Filed: July 26, 2001.
• US Patent 5,808,659,"Device and method for centralized processing of picture-in-picture images," Filed: February 10, 1997; Granted: September 15, 1998.
• US Patent 701161,"Improved Prediction Structures for Enhancement Layer in Fine Granular Scalability Video Coding," Filed: February 2001.

Other Professional Experience

• Co-chair and Editor, Experts Group of the International Telecommunications Union on Broadband/Local-Area-Networks Video Coding,'94-'96
• Member, Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), 1993-1997
• Member, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 1993-1996
• Member, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 1996-1999