Profile

Dr. Heming Sun received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2011, and received the M.E. degree from Waseda University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 2012 and 2014, respectively, through a double-degree program. In 2017 he earned his Ph.D. degree from Waseda University through the embodiment informatics program supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), where he is currently a junior researcher. He was a researcher at NEC Central Research Laboratories from 2017 to 2018. He is selected as Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) PRESTO Researcher, during 2019 to 2023. His interests are in algorithms and VLSI architectures for image/video processing and neural networks. He participated in the 8K HEVC decoder chip design which won the ISSCC 2016 Takuo Sugano Award for Outstanding Far-East Paper, and his module design won the VLSI Design and Education Center, University of Tokyo VDEC Design Award. He also actively participates in learned image/video coding competitions and got Picture Coding Symposium Grand Challenge on Short Video Coding Silver Award. Regarding the academic achievements and activities, he has published over 50 journal and conference papers (e.g. TMM, JSSC, TCAS-I, ISSCC, CVPR, VCIP, ISCAS). He held a special session on "Neural Network Technology in Future Image/Video Coding" at Picture Coding Symposium 2019. He is invited to give a talk about “Deep Learning Method for Image Compression” by Information Processing Society of Japan. He also served as reviewers for many flagship CASsociety journals such as TCSVT, TCAS-I, TCAS-II.