Dr. Samson Cheung researches how technology can be used to help people in very realistic and immediate ways. 

As an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and faculty member of the Vis Center, the major theme of his research is in the area of using multimedia image processing and signal processing to help solve societal problems. 

He has two main areas of research. The first area of interest is in privacy concerns related to multimedia. He and his team are investigating a new computational framework for encrypted multimedia processing. The framework is being used in novel applications such as biometric matching, object detection, speech analysis and video surveillance. 

His second area of interest has developed out of a personal interest in autism therapy. This project is an interdisciplinary, integrated research and education program to develop novel technologies in manipulating mirror images, aimed at studying and enabling behavioral modeling of children with autism spectrum disorder.