Minerva Yeung () is an American research scientist and educator best known for her work in

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s, and

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. She was selected as an

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in 2019 "for leadership in multimedia signal processing." Yeung's research and work have been featured in publications ''

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Education

Yeung grew up in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

and entered

Purdue University Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...

as a Chu Foundation Scholar, where she graduated with a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

degree in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

in 1992. She received a

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in electrical engineering at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in 1996 and was advised by professor

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. Her thesis was titled ''Analysis, modeling and representation of digital video.''

Career and research

After receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1996, Yeung worked as a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, principal engineer and research manager at the Intel Microprocessor Research Labs, and led multiple teams at

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

. Her research specializes in video and signal processing, especially in topics of

video streaming Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request. These multimedia are accessed without a traditional video playback device and a typical static broadcasting ...

, and image verification. Her work has appeared in computer science journals and conferences including the

Journal of Electronic Imaging The ''Journal of Electronic Imaging'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published quarterly by SPIE and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. It covers all technology topics pertaining to the field of electronic imaging. The editor-i ...

SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) is an annual conference centered around computer graphics organized by ACM, starting in 1974 in Boulder, CO. The main conference has always been held in North ...

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is an annual conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. Affiliations The conference was first held in 1983 in Washington, DC, organized by Takeo Kanade and Dana H. Ballard. Fr ...

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications The ''IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Communications Society that focuses on telecommunications. The journal was established in 1983 and the editor-in-chief is ...

, and

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office i ...

. She also owns 45

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s. One patent, summary frames, was featured in ''

'' as a new method for viewers to watch enough of television shows being broadcast without pausing longer than usual. Yeung's work at the Intel Microprocessor Research Labs was mentioned in

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's book ''Engines of Tomorrow: How the World's Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs to Win the Future'' (2000). More recently, Yeung has been more involved in the education world. Since 2014 she has worked on growing IvyCube (科藤园), an educational startup primarily based in Shanghai & Northern California. In 2019, Yeung was elected to

. She also served as the chair of the

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is presented "for outstanding achievements in signal processing" theory, technology or commerce. The recipients of this award will receive a gold medal, together with a replica in bronze, a certifica ...

committee.

Selected awards & honors

* 2004 - One of Top 10 Winners of the Inaugural “China Outstanding IT Research Female” Award * 2019 -

* 2020 -

Outstanding Electrical & Computer Engineers Award

Notable publications

* S. Craver, N. Memon, B. Yeo, & M. Yeung. ''Resolving rightful ownerships with invisible watermarking techniques: Limitations, attacks, and implications'' (1998). * M. Yeung & F. Mintzer. ''An invisible watermarking technique for image verification'' (1997). * M. Yeung & B. Yeo. ''Video visualization for compact presentation and fast browsing of pictorial content'' (1997).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yeung, Minerva Living people American women computer scientists American computer scientists Purdue University alumni Princeton University alumni Fellows of the IEEE 20th-century American women scientists Hong Kong emigrants to the United States 21st-century American women scientists Year of birth missing (living people)