Roger Zimmermann

Roger Zimmermann is a Full Professor at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also Deputy Director with the Smart Systems Institute (SSI) and a lead investigator with the Grab-NUS AI Lab. From 2010 to 2016 he co-directed the Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC), a research institute funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore. Prior to joining NUS he held the positions of Research Area Director with the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC). He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Among his research interests are streaming media architectures, mobile video management, distributed and peer-to-peer systems, spatio-temporal data management and location-based services. Dr. Zimmermann is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. He has co-authored a book, seven patents and more than three hundred conference publications, journal articles and book chapters in the areas of multimedia, GIS and information management. He has received funding from AI Singapore, NSF (US), A * STAR (Singapore), NUS Research Institute (NUSRI, China), NRF (Singapore), and NSFC (China) as well as several industries such as Seagate, Fuji Xerox, Yunphant, HP, Intel, and Pratt & Whitney. Dr. Zimmermann is on the editorial boards of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) Review Board and the Springer International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP). He is also an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia journal (ACM TOMM), the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS), and he was elected as Secretary of ACM SIGSPATIAL for the term of 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2017. He has served on the conference program committees of many leading conferences and as reviewer of many journals. Recently he was the general chair of the IEEE BigMM 2019, the IEEE ISM 2015 and the ACM Multimedia Systems 2014 conferences, and TPC co-chair of the ACM Multimedia 2020, the IEEE ICME 2019 and the ACM TVX 2017 conferences.

Professor Zimmermann is has received numerous awards and accolades for his research and service. He received a number of Best Paper awards (see Awards & Honours below). In systems development he recently he was part of the team that won the silver award at the ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys 2020) Grand Challenge sponsored by Twitch.tv ("Adaptation Algorithms for Near-Second Latency"). His team placed second at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2013 contest on geo-fencing out of 29 entries. His Remote Media Immersion (RMI) project was awarded an Honorable Mention in the CENIC 2003 “On the Road to a Gigabit” Awards in the ”Gigabit or Bust” category and an Idea Award by the Internet2 consortium. For his service he received the 2017 Best Editor Award of the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications (MMTC) Review Board. He is a recipient the Outstanding Reviewer Award at the Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2014) and the Quality Reviewer Award at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011). More information about Dr. Zimmermann's research and activities can be found on his Google Scholar Citation page, his DBLP page, his ACM Author page, his ResearchGate page, and his Elsevier Mendeley page.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Southern California (1991 — 1998)

Companies

• Investigator Grab-NUS AI Lab (2018)
• Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2007)
• Visiting Researcher FXPAL (2016 — 2016)
• Co-Director Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC) National University of Singapore (2012 — 2016)
• Adjunct Associate Professor University of Southern California (2008 — 2011)
• Research Assistant Professor University of Southern California (2000 — 2006)