BRIAN A. HENG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home: Office: 9524 Dale Rd Broadcom Corporation Woodbury, MN 55129 16215 Alton Parkway (857) 928-3983 Irvine, CA 92618 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - Cambridge, MA Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, September 2005. Thesis under Professor J.S. Lim titled "Adaptive Multiple Description Mode Selection for Error Resilient Video Communications". Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 2001. Thesis under Professor J.S. Lim titled "Application of Deinterlacing for the Enhancement of Surveillance Video". UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - Minneapolis, MN Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, June 1999. EXPERIENCE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ELETRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, Cambridge, MA Teaching Assistant for 2-D Signal and Image Processing - Spring 2004 and 2005 Head Teaching Assistant for Discrete-Time Signal Processing - Fall 2000 and 2001 BROADCOM CORPORATION BROADBAND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, Irvine, CA Engineering Intern - Summer 2001 and 2002 * Verified performance of MPEG2 encoder/decoder chips * Developed utilities for buffer/timing analysis of MPEG2 transport streams * Wrote utility for MPEG2 to DirecTV transport stream conversion * Assisted in the development of an MPEG4-AVC / H.26L video codec COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPERATION CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH LAB, Cambridge, MA Research Intern - Summer 2000 * Worked with research staff examining and improving text-to-speech synthesis * Gained experience with speech and audio processing * Developed audio intelligibility test using Visual C++ HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS, Minneapolis, MN Student Engineering Research Assistant - June 1998 to August 1999 * Developed and tested signal-processing algorithms for military project * Acquired programming skills using Matlab and Visual C++ * Gained experience in a large-scale research project UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ACADEMIC COMPUTER SERVICES, Minneapolis, MN Computer Lab Attendant - September 1996 to June 1998 * Aided users with hardware and software problems * Updated and maintained computers in the labs and classrooms * Maintained security of the labs PUBLICATIONS B. Heng, J. Apostolopoulos, and J. Lim, “Rate-Distortion Optimized MD Mode Selection for Adaptive Multiple Description Video Coding,” to appear in the special issue on “Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission” in the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 1st Quarter 2006. B. Heng, J. Apostolopoulos, and J. Lim, “End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized Mode Selection for Multiple Description Video Coding,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, March 2005. B. Heng and J. Lim, “Multiple Description Coding Through Adaptive Segmentation,” 49th Annual Meeting of the SPIE, International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, Denver, August 2004. B. Heng, "Multiple Description Video Coding Through Adaptive Segmentation". Ph.D. Thesis Proposal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2004. B. Heng, “Application of Deinterlacing for the Improvement of Surveillance Video”. MS Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2001. D. Pan, B. Heng, S. Cheung, E. Chang, "Improving Speech Synthesis for High Intelligibility under Adverse Conditions," 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, October 2000. HONORS * Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society - Vice President * Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society * Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society * University of Minnesota Dean's List * University of Minnesota Presidential Scholarship * 3M Duke Scholarship * Electrical Engineering - Chauncey L. Greene Scholarship RELEVANT COURSEWORK Graduate Courses – MIT 6.341 – Digital Signal Processing 6.344 – Two Dimensional Signal Processing 6.431 – Applied Probability 6.432 – Stochastic Processes 6.441 – Information Theory 6.450 – Digital Communications I 6.451 – Digital Communications II 6.829 – Computer Networks 15.401 – Finance Theory I 15.402 – Finance Theory II 15.433 – Investments Undergraduate Courses – University of Minnesota EE 3021 – Probability in Engineering Systems EE 3061 – Analog Microelectronics EE 3062 – Digital Microelectronics EE 5002 – Digital Signal Processing EE 5202 – Analog Communication EE 5203 – Digital Communication EE 5358 – Digital Design with VHDL EE 5571 – VLSI Design EE 5700 – Information Theory EE 8207 – VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems CSCI 5301 – Numerical Mathematics and Computing