Roger Zimmermann
Professor, School of Computing
Roger Zimmermann is a professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a key investigator in the Grab-NUS AI Lab, a joint research lab between the NUS Institute of Data Science and GrabTaxi Holdings. Earlier he was a deputy director with the Smart Systems Institute (SSI) and a co-director of the Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities (COSMIC). Prior to joining NUS he held the position of Research Area Director with the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California (USC). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California in 1994 and 1998, respectively. Among his research interests are streaming media architectures, multimedia networking, distributed systems, applications of machine/deep learning, mobile and spatial data management. 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 is an associate editor for IEEE MultiMedia, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS). He is a distinguished member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE. Further information can be found at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~rogerz/