Biography 

Yu Hen Hu received BSEE from National Taiwan University in 1976.  He
received MSEE and PhD degrees from University of Southern California in
1980, and 1982 respectively.  From 1983 to 1987, he was an assistant
professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, Texas.  Since 1987, he has been with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
where he is currently a professor. 

Dr.  Hu has broad research interests ranging from design and
implementation of signal processing algorithms, computer aided design
and physical design of VLSI, pattern classification and machine learning
algorithms, and image and signal processing in general.  He has
published more than 200 technical papers, edited several books in these
areas. 

He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transaction of
Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE signal processing letters,
European Journal of Applied signal Processing, IEEE Multimedia Magazine,
and Journal of VLSI Signal Processing.  He has served as the secretary
and an executive committee member of the IEEE signal processing society,
a board of governors of IEEE neural network council representing the
signal processing society, the chair of signal processing society neural
network for signal processing technical committee, and is the current
chair of IEEE signal processing society multimedia signal processing
technical committee (2004-2005).  He is also a steering committee member
of the international conference of Multimedia and Expo, IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia on behalf of IEEE Signal processing society. 

Dr. Hu is a fellow of IEEE.