Dr. Dong Tian joined InterDigital recently as a Senior Principal Research Scientist after working with Computer Vision Group of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) at Cambridge, MA, U.S. between 2010-2018. Previously, he conducted researches with Thomson Corporate Research at Princeton, NJ from 2006 and Tampere University of Technology in Finland from 2002. He has been actively contributing to video related standards in MPEG within projects including H.264/MPEG AVC (2002-), MVC (2006-), H.265/HEVC extensions such as MV-HEVC, 3DV (2010-), and point cloud compression (2016-). His current research interests cover point cloud processing, graph signal processing, deep learning, and computer vision. Besides numerous publications on top-tier conferences and transactions, he holds over 30 US-granted patents. In addition, he serves as technical committee member in multiple IEEE societies. Dong received M.Eng. and B.Eng. degrees on automation from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1998 and 1995, respectively; and he was granted Ph.D. at Beijing University of Technology in 2002. He is a senior member of IEEE.