Bio: IEEE style

Jacob Chakareski completed the MS degree in electrical and computer engineering at WPI and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering at Rice and Stanford. He is presently a Panasonic Professor of Computing at NJIT. Previosuly, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at U. Alabama. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Scientist at EPFL, where he conducted research, supervised students, and lectured. He also held research or advisory positions with Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Vidyo, a tech leader in scalable video Internet telepresence, and Frame, a tech leader in mobile visual cloud computing. Frame and Vidyo have been acquired by Nutanix and Enghouse Systems, respectively, in 2019. Chakareski has authored one monograph, five book chapters, and over 200 IEEE and ACM international journal and conference publications, and holds 9 US patents. His present research interests span mobile virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems, UAV-IoT sensing and communication, millimeter wave and free-space optical mobile networking, 360-degree video streaming, accelerated reinforcement learning for stochastic control in communications and robotics, ubiquitous immersive communication, edge computing and caching, and emerging 5G and IoT architectures. He also investigates interdisciplinary applications of UAV-IoT-enabled networked VR/AR immersion and VR-AI enabled automated low vision rehabilitation.

Dr. Chakareski is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kapa Nu. He received the Adobe Data Science Faculty Research Award in 2017 and 2018, the Swiss NSF Career Award Ambizione, the AFOSR Faculty Fellowship in 2016 and 2017, and best paper awards at IEEE ICC 2017, ACM MMSys 2021, and ACM CFI 2019. He is also a recipient of the Technical University Munich Mobility Fellowship, the University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Fellowship, and the Texas Instruments Graduate Research Fellowship. He was an AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow for 2015-2016. He has organized and chaired special sessions on Telemedicine at IEEE MMSP 2009 and Immersive VR/AR Experiences at ACM MMSys 2017.He was a Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE Packet Video 2012 and IEEE Packet Video AR 2016, Demo/Expo Chair of IEEE ICME 2016, and General Co-Chair of the IEEE SPS Seasonal School on Social Media Processing 2012. He was a Guest Editor for the Springer PPNA March 2015 special issue on P2P-Cloud Systems and the IEEE TCSVT January 2017 special issue on Mobile Visual Cloud. Presently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Dr Chakareski is the organizer of the first NSF Visioning Workshop on Networked VR/AR Communications in 2018. His research has been supported by the NSF, NIH, AFOSR, Adobe, Tencent Research, NVIDIA, and Microsoft. He is an IEEE Senior Member.

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