Zili is currently an Assistant Professor in HKUST ECE. He is leading the Streaming Platform and Real-time networK (SPARK) Lab. He aims at building networked systems for interactive multimedia streaming.
For applications from videoconferencing, cloud gaming to virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR), users interact with the application all the time and multimedia contents are streamed in real-time. The key to enable these applications in the real life is to provide a consistent ultra-low latency. This involves the latency optimization across the entire network stack, from the application layer to the physical layer, and the intersection over multimedia, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. Going forward, his plan is to enable interactive multimedia streaming systems to be a part of real life. This will enable a series of future applications in the world of AR-assisted everything.