LEI CAO


Dr. Lei Cao received his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hefei University of Technology in China in 1990; the M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China in 1993; and the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2002.

From 1993 to 1998, he was a lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering at University of Science and Technology of China. He was a research assistant during his Ph. D. program and a teaching assistant in 2000 at University of Missouri-Columbia. He was with Symbol Technologies Inc. in 2000 and with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in 2001. He has joined Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Mississippi since 2002 and now he is an associate professor of Electrical  Engineering.

His research interests can be summarized into two categories. One is signal processing and wireless communications, and the other is multimedia technologies including image processing, image/video coding, graphics and fractals etc. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi.