Roger ZIMMERMANN

AS6-05-05

651 67949

www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~rogerz

Professor

Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
M.S. (University of Southern California)

Roger Zimmermann is a Full Professor at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a Co-PI with the Grab-NUS AI Lab. From 2011 to 2021 he was a Deputy Director with the NUS Smart Systems Institute (SSI) and 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 and protocols for video (DASH) and immersive media (e.g., point cloud data), applications of machine/deep learning, spatiotemporal data management, analytics and applications, 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 fifty conference publications, journal articles and book chapters in the areas of multimedia, and spatiotemporal information management. He has received funding from MOE (Singapore), NParks/HDB (Singapore), 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 board of the Springer International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP). He is also an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia journal (TOMM), the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS), and the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). Previously, he served as Secretary of ACM SIGSPATIAL (2014 – 2017) and as associate editor for IEEE MultiMedia (2017 – 2022). He was a member and director of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) Review Board (2017 – 2019). He has served on the conference programme committees of many leading conferences and as reviewer of many journals. Recently he was the general chair of the IEEE MIPR 2023, 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. His ORCID persistent digital identifier is 0000-0002-7410-2590 and his Researcher ID is D-7944-2015.

RESEARCH AREAS

Media

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Multimedia and Distributed Systems
Multimedia and Mobile Networking
Spatio-temporal Data Management
Streaming Media Architectures
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Applications of Machine Learning
AR/VR and Immersive Environments
Group and Real-Time Communications
Mobile Location-Based Services
Multimedia Databases

RESEARCH PROJECTS

RESEARCH GROUPS

TEACHING INNOVATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bentaleb A., Timmerer C., Begen A. C., and Zimmermann R. 2019 "Bandwidth Prediction in Low-Latency Chunked Streaming,"29th ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video NOSSDAV-19,June 21 - 21, 2019, Amherst, MA, USA. DOI:10.1145/3304112.3325611 DASH-IF Excellence in DASH Award
Kapoor R., Kumar Y., Rajput K., Shah R. R., Kumaraguru P., andZimmermann R.2018 "Mind Your Language: Abuse and Offense Detection for Code-Switched Languages,"Thirty-second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI-18, February 2–7, 2018, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA. DOI:10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019951Best Student Poster
Hazarika D., Poria S., Zadeh A., Cambria E., Morency L.-P., andZimmermann R. 2018 "Conversational Memory Network for Emotion Recognition in Dyadic Dialogue Videos,"Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies NAACL-18, June 1-6, 2018,New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. DOI:10.18653/v1/N18-1193
Liu Q., Zhang Y., Liu Z., Yuan Y., Cheng L., and Zimmermann R. 2018 "Multi-modal Multi-task Learning for Automatic Dietary Assessment," Thirty-second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI-18, February 2–7, 2018, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA.
Bentaleb A., Taani B., Begen A. C., Timmerer C., and Zimmermann R. 2018 "A Survey on Bitrate Adaptation Schemes for Streaming Media over HTTP,"IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 21 1, pp. 562-585. DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2862938
Bentaleb A; Begen AC; Zimmermann R; Harous S 2017 “SDNHAS: An SDN-enabled architecture to optimize QoE in HTTP adaptive streaming,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 19 10, pp. 2136 – 2151. DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2017.2733344
Perera D., Zimmermann R. 2017 “Exploring the use of time-dependent cross-network information for personalized recommendations,” MM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Multimedia Conference, pp. 1780 – 1788. DOI: 10.1145/3123266.3123447
Liu Z; Cheng L; Liu A; Zhang L; He X; Zimmermann R 2017 “Multiview and multimodal pervasive indoor localization,” MM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Multimedia Conference, pp. 109 – 117. DOI: 10.1145/3123266.3123436
Yin Y; Shah RR; Zimmermann R 2016 “A General Feature-based Map Matching Framework with Trajectory Simplification,” 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming IWGS, pp. 43 – 52, San Francisco, CA 31 Oct 2016, DOI: 10.1145/3003421.3003426 Best Paper Award
Yin Y; Thapliya R; Zimmermann R 2016 “Encoded Semantic Tree for Automatic User Profiling Applied to Personalized Video Summarization,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, pp. 1 – 1. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2602832

AWARDS & HONOURS

Silver Award, received at the ACM Multimedia Systems 2020 Grand Challenge, sponsored by Twitch.tv.
Best Paper Runner-Up, received at the 6th IEEE Int’l Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS 2019).
Best Paper Award, received at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAI 2019 Workshop.
Honorable Mention Award (Best Paper Runner Up), received at the ACM SIGSPATIAL PredictGIS 2019 Workshop.
Best Demo Award, received at IEEE BigMM 2019.
Best Student Paper Award at the 9th ACM Int’l Conference on Multimedia Systems (ACM MMSys) 2018.
DASH-IF Excellence in DASH Award (1st Prize), received at the 10th ACM Int’l Conference on Multimedia Systems (ACM MMSys) 2019.
DASH-IF Excellence in DASH Award (1st Prize), received at the 9th ACM Int’l Conference on Multimedia Systems (ACM MMSys) 2018.
Best Student Poster Award at Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019).
Director of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) Review Board (2018).
Publons Peer Review Awards 2018, top 1% of reviewers in Computer Science for 2017-2018 Award year.
DASH-IF Grand Challenge on DASH (1st Prize), received at the IEEE ICME 2018 conference.
Elected ACM Distinguished Member (2017).
Best Paper Award at the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS 2016).
His team placed second at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2013 contest on geo-fencing out of 29 entries.
In 2012 he received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2012).
He was nominated for the IEEE Communications Society, Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) Best Paper Award in 2010.
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)