Dr. Yun Qing Shi has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ since 1987, and is currently a professor there. He obtained his B.S.degree and M.S.degree from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, PA. His research interests include visual signal processing and communications (motion analysis, video compression and transmission), multimedia data hiding and security (robust watermarking, fragile- and semi-fragile lossless data hiding, authentication, steganalysis, and data forensics), applications of digital image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition to industrial automation and biomedical engineering, theory of multidimensional systems and signal processing (robust stability of linear systems, 2-D spectral factorization, 2-D/3-D interleaving). Prior to entering graduate school, he had industrial experience in a radio factory as a principlal design and test engineer in numerical control manifacturing and electronic broadcasting devices. Some of his research projects have been supported by several federal and New Jersey State funding agencies.

He is an author/coauthor of 200 papers in his research areas, a book on Image and Video Compression, three book chapters on Image Data Hiding, and one book chapter on Digital Image Processing. He holds two US patents and has 17 US patents pending (among which 11 have been licensed to another party by NJIT). He is the chairman of Signal Processing Chapter of IEEE North Jersey Section; the founding editor-in-chief of LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security (Springer), an editorial board member of International Journal of Image and Graphics (World Scientific) and Journal on Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (Springer), a member of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS)'s Technical Committee of Visual Signal Processing and Communications, Technical Committee of Multimedia Systems and Applications, and Technical Committee of Life Science, Systems and Applications; a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee of Multimedia Signal Processing; the chair of Technical Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2007 (ICME07), the chair of Technical Program Committee of International Workshop on Digital Watermarking 2007 (IWDW07), a fellow of IEEE.

He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II, the guest editor of special issue on Image Data Hiding for International Journal of Image and Graphics, the guest editor of special issue on Multimedia Signal Processing for Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, the guest editor of special issue on Image Sequence Processing for International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, a formal reviewer of the Mathematical Reviewa, a contributing author in the area of Signal and Image Processing for the Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering (CRC), an IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer, a co-general chair of IEEE 2002 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP02), a co-technical chair of IEEE 2005 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP05), a co-chair of Technical Program Committee of International Workshop on Digital Watermarking 2006 (IWDW06).