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Harrick M. Vin

Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

CoDirector:
Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research (LASR)

Director:
Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory (DMCL)

Research areas:
Networks, operating systems, multimedia systems,
and distributed systems.
Harrick Vin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the founding Director of the Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory and the co-Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Systems Research (LASR) at UT Austin. His research interests are in the areas of networks, operating systems, distributed systems, and multimedia systems.

He has co-authored more than 100 papers in leading journals and conferences. Harrick has been a recipient of several awards including the Faculty Fellow in Computer Sciences, Dean's Fellowship, National Science Foundation CAREER award, IBM Faculty Development Award, Fellow of the IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies, AT&T Foundation Award, National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, IBM Doctoral Fellowship, NCR Innovation Award, and San Diego Supercomputer Center Creative Computing Award.

He has served on the Editorial Board of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE Multimedia. He has been a guest editor for IEEE Network. He has served as the conference co-chair for the 2003 ACM Multimedia Systems conference; as the program chair for the 1998 IEEE International conference on Multimedia Computing; program co-chair for the 2000 International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) and 1996-97 SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking conferences; as the vice-chair in the area of Distributed Multimedia Systems for the 1997 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS); as the associate chair of program committee for the 1995-96 and 1998-2000 ACM Multimedia Systems conferences; and as a program committee member for numerous conferences.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego in 1993.
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