IEEE TCMC Award Recipients - IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing

	IEEE TCMC Mid-Term Career Award Qi Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China For his outstanding contributions to collaborative analysis and semantic understanding of multimedia data.

	IEEE TCMC Rising Star Award Xin Wang, Tsinghua University, China For his contributions in multimedia representation learning and its applications.

	IEEE TCMC Impact Award Yong Rui, Lenovo Group, Corporate CTO, Fellow of ACM/IEEE For outstanding contributions to both multimedia research and product development for the past 25 years.

	IEEE TCMC Mid-Career Award Weiyao Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China For his outstanding work in the multimedia semantic information understanding, processing, and compression. His novel techniques have been widely adopted by both academia and industry.

	IEEE TCMC Service Award Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA For her outstanding service to TCMC and the Multimedia Computing Community and the outstanding leadership demonstrated throughout her terms as the Chair for TCMC.

	IEEE TCMC Impact Award Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA For outstanding contributions to multimedia computing technologies in terms of research & development and as an inspiring educator.

	IEEE TCMC Rising Star Award Lianli Gao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China For contributions towards improving visual understanding by integrating natural language processing techniques.

	IEEE TCMC Service Award Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University, USA For outstanding service to the multimedia community and pioneering contributions to assistive technology and haptics.

	IEEE TCMC Impact Award Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA For pioneering and wide-spread impact to multimedia computing for the past four decades.

	IEEE TCMC Rising Star Award Ting Yao, JD AI Research, Beijing, China For contributions in video content recognition and description generation.

	IEEE TCMC Service Award Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA For outstanding service and inspiring leadership to the IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing and the Multimedia Computing community.