C.-C. Jay Kuo
Biography
Ask students and colleagues to describe C.-C. Jay Kuo and you will hear words such as “passionate teacher,” “outstanding scholar,” “great professional leader,” and “unparalleled innovator.” Since 1989 at the University of Southern California, Kuo has taught over 3,000 students, guided over 130 students to Ph.D. degrees, and supervised 25 postdoctoral research fellows. His Introduction to Digital Image Processing is one of the most popular courses among electrical engineering graduate students, and he continually revises the curriculum to address current trends. His Multimedia Data Compression graduate course is based on his own lecture notes. Key to Kuo’s popularity in the classroom are his enthusiastic teaching style and his broad and deep knowledge of the technology and product trends of the multimedia industry.
An IEEE Fellow, Kuo is a Dean’s Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
