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Howard Cheng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Lethbridge. He has been actively involved in research and teaching, with a focus on computer algebra, polynomial matrices, and image processing.
Education:
- Ph.D., Computer Science (Waterloo)
- M.Sc., Computing Science (Alberta)
- B.Sc. Honors, Computing Science (Alberta)
Dr. Cheng's research primarily deals with controlling intermediate expression growth in linear algebra problems, especially those involving polynomial matrices and their generalization to Ore polynomial matrices. He is also interested in compression and encryption algorithms for images and videos, with a particular focus on issues arising from compressing sets of related images. His current research involves computer vision algorithms with event-based cameras.
Dr. Cheng has secured multiple research grants, including funding from the University of Lethbridge Research Fund and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). His research has covered areas such as image set compression, computer algebra algorithms, and multi-precision evaluation of series of hypergeometric terms.
Dr. Cheng is the coach for the University of Lethbridge's ACM Programming Contest teams and has been involved with the contest for many years, both as a former contestant (reaching World Finals in 1998) and in various organizational roles including judge and problem designer.
