Dr. AlRegib received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2003 and is currently an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
His research group is working on projects related to multimedia processing and communications, immersive communications, distributed processing, collaborative systems, quality of experience, and wireless sensor networks.
As a graduate student at Georgia Tech, Dr. AlRegib received the ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in spring 2001 and both the Center for Signal and Image Processing (CSIP) Research Award and the CSIP Service Award in spring 2003. In 2008, he received the ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award at Georgia Tech.
Dr. AlRegib was the general co-chair and co-founder of the First International Conference on Immersive Telecommunication (IMMERSCOM) that was held in November 2007. He is currently the steering committee co-chair for IMMERSCOM and was the chair of the Special Sessions Program at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) in 2006. Dr. AlRegib has also served as an associate editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and in 2008, he became the area editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and the editor-in-chief of the ICST Transactions on Immersive Communications. Dr. AlRegib has served as a session chair and technical program committee member for several international conferences and workshops. He has authored over 60 journal and conference technical papers and has been issued four U.S. patents. He has conducted several consulting jobs for several companies and organizations.
