Wenwu Zhu

Professor

Email: wwzhu@tsinghua.edu.cn

Education background:

· New York University, USA

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering June 1996

· Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

M. S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering June 1993

· National University of Science and Technology, China

B. E. in Electronic Engineering June 1985

Professional service:

· Chair, Steering Committee, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2020-present

· Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2020-2021

· Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2017-2019

· General Co-Chair, ACM CIKM 2019

· General Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia 2018

· TPC Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia 2014

· TPC Co-Chair, IEEE ISCAS 2013

· Steering Committee, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2007-2010

Areas of Research Interests

· Multimedia communications, multimedia content delivery network

· Multimedia big data analysis, graph representation learning

Research Status:

His research mainly focuses on the areas of multimedia networking, and network representation.

On Multimedia Networking, he proposed end-to-end QoS control method for MPEG video streaming over the Internet and wireless networks. His papers on this subject received IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 2001 most cited paper, TCSVT 2001 best paper, IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communication 2004 best paper awards. In addition, he proposed the principal concept and framework for multimedia cloud computing, particularly “media edge cloud” (MEC) architecture. Moreover, he proposed a propagation-based social-aware multimedia content replication framework, which received ACM Multimedia 2012 best paper award. He further proposed “Social-sensed Multimedia Computing” framework published in the Vision and View column at IEEE Multimedia and won the best department paper award in IEEE Multimedia 2018. His papers on this subject also received Multimedia Modelling 2013 and IEEE ICME 2014 best paper awards as well as ACM Multimedia 2012 grand challenge award.

On Network Representation, he proposed a structure preserved deep network embedding model. He further proposed asymmetric transitivity preserving graph embedding method for directed graphs. He then proposed Robust GCN, a model that "fortifies'' GCNs against adversarial attacks. To increase explainability of network representation learning, he and his team proposed disentangled graph convolutional network to learn disentangled representation for relational data, automatically discovering the latent factors of different relational structures. To enhance the generalizability of network representation learning, he proposed explainable automated graph representation through hyper-parameter decorrelation with theoretical guarantee. In addition, he designed and released the world’s first automated graph representation learning library, AutoGL, which is an open-source library for graph applications.

Honors and Awards:

· ACM Fellow (2022)

· IEEE Fellow (2010)

· AAAS Fellow (2016)

· SPIE Fellow (2013)

· Member of Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea) (2018)

· Best paper award, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2019、2001)

· Best paper award, ACM Multimedia (2012)

Academic Achievement:

1. Wenwu Zhu, Xin Wang, Wen Gao, Multimedia Intelligence: When Multimedia Meets Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Multimedia 22(7): 1823-1835, 2020

2. Wenwu Zhu, Xin Wang, Peng Cui, Deep learning for learning graph representations, Deep learning: concepts and architectures, 169-210, 2020

3. Wenwu Zhu, Xin Wang, Hongzhi Li, Multi-Modal Deep Analysis for Multimedia. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 30 (10): 3740-3764, 2019

4. Daixin Wang, Peng Cui, Wenwu Zhu, Structural Deep Network Embedding. ACM KDD 2016: 1225-1234. (2333 citations in Google Scholar)

5. Mingdong Ou, Peng Cui, Jian Pei, Ziwei Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, Asymmetric transitivity preserving graph embedding, ACM SIGKDD 2016: 1105-1114. (1097 citations in Google Scholar)

6. Wenwu Zhu, Peng Cui, Zhi Wang, Gang Hua, Multimedia Big Data Computing, IEEE Multimedia 22(3): 96-c3 (2015)

7. Baochun Li, Zhi Wang, Jiangchuan Liu, Wenwu Zhu. “Two Decades of Internet Video Streaming: A Retrospective View,” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, Special Issue on the 20th Anniversary of ACM Multimedia, vol. 9, no. 1s, pp. 33–52, October 2013

8. Zhi Wang, Wenwu Zhu, Xiangwen Chen, Lifeng Sun, Jiangchuan Liu, Minghua Chen, Peng Cui, Shiqiang Yang. “Propagation-Based Social-Aware Multimedia Content Distribution,” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, vol. 9, no. 1s, pp. 53–72, October 2013. (ACM Multimedia 2012 best paper award)

9. Wenwu Zhu, Chong Luo, Jianfeng Wang, Shipeng Li, “Multimedia Cloud Computing”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, May 2011. (Highly cited paper)

Dapeng Wu, Yiwei Thomas Hou, Wenwu Zhu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Jon M Peha, Streaming video over the Internet: approaches and directions, IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems for video technology 11 (3), 282-300, 2001. (Most cited paper 2001, 1233 citations in Google Scholar)