From: douglas@apache.ctr.columbia.edu (Paul Douglas)
Subject: Ph.D in EE seeking a position in video/multimedia communications
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:04:55 GMT
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			   C. PAUL DOUGLAS
		   519 WEST 121st  STREET,  APT. 4A
			 NEW YORK,  NY 10027
			 TEL: (212) 749-1985

OBJECTIVE
   A position in the area of video coding/transmission or digital
   signal processing. 

EDUCATION
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY in the City of New York
From 1986	Ph. D. candidate in Electrical Engineering 
		Degree expected: Oct. 1992

1985-1986	Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

1981-1985	Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
		Academic Honors with distinction

Thesis topic: Video communication in an ATM-based B-ISDN environment.
   Thesis focuses on the complexities of transporting bursty synchronous
   traffic with extended holding times in the lossy transmission medium
   produced by a packet or cell based network.  The influence of this
   type of traffic on the network's performance as well as the effect
   that cell loss has on the reconstructed signal are also studied.

Advanced projects:
* Three-dimensional sub-band coder implemented in C on a Trapix 5500
  signal processor which used a DEC MicroVax running VAX/VMS as a
  host.

* Robust video source coding using a MPEG coder.  The coder was
  implemented in C on a SPARC 2 running SunOS Release 4.1.1.

EXPERIENCE
CENTER for TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH, C.U.
From 1985	Graduate Research Assistant

   Researching video bandwidth compression using predictive as well as
   transform coding techniques, statistical analysis of the output rates
   of variable bit-rate video coders, the development of tractable 
   variable bit-rate models for use in network resource management and
   allocation strategies.  Congruent with this research, several large
   statistical packages as well as video coder and queueing simulations
   were written in C.

   Member of a design team charged with the development of an integrated
   still frame/packet video coder for surveillance.  Responsible for the 
   video coder design and implementation.  Chaired initial planning 
   meetings of the video/still image group and served as liaison to the 
   hardware group.

   Part of group responsible for developing a Unix mail utility which
   allowed images to be acquired from various sources including an NTSC
   video camera and mailed directly.  Supervised students charged with
   implementing video to still image capture and image compression
   routines on the Sony NEWS 1850 workstation / NWB-224 frame grabber.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY
1986-1987	Teaching Assistant
Courses: Circuit-switched Communication Networks and Stochastic Processes
   Responsible for grading and proctoring examinations as well as
   giving tutorial sessions.

PUBLICATIONS
   P. Douglas,  G. Karlsson and M. Vetterli, 
   Statistical Analysis of the Output rate of a Sub-band Video Coder
   Proc. of SPIE Conf. on Visual Communications and Image Processing
   Vol. 1001, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 1988, pp. 1011-1025.

   P. Douglas and M. Vetterli
   Statistical Analysis of the Output Rates of Two Variable Bit-rate
   Video Coders
   Proc. of Third Int. Workshop on Packet Video
   Morristown, NJ, Mar. 1990.


TECHNICAL SKILLS
   Programming languages: C, Pascal, Common Lisp and Fortran.
   Computer Systems: BSD UNIX, SUN OS, MS-DOS and VAX/VMS.
   Computer Hardware: Sun 3, Sun 4, SPARC 1, SPARC 2, SONY NEWS 1750/1850, 
		      SONY DVR-1000/NWB-224/NWB-226, DVS IPS 1024, DEC Micro
		      VAX, TRAPIX 5500.
   Systems & Packages: X windows, Sunview, OpenWindows, Framemaker,
		       PostScript, LATEX, TEX, Pro-Matlab, Mathematica,
		       JPEG, MPEG.

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