Bell Labs Research China and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications jointly held a distinguished lecture on Nov. 18, 2004. Dr. Wim Sweldens delivered a talk of "New Applications for the Converged World".

Topics included the next generation networks, IMS (IP multimedia Subsystem) technologies and some new applications on it. Some recent innovations of Bell Labs Research have also been covered.

Dr. Wim Sweldens is Vice President of Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1994 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and has been with Lucent since 1995. His research is concerned with wavelets and multiscale analysis and its application in numerical analysis, signal processing, computer graphics, and wireless communications. He is the inventor of the lifting scheme, a new design and implementation technique for wavelets, which now is part of the JPEG2000 standard.

MIT's “Technology Review” recently chose him as one of 100 most promising young innovators. More recently he has been leading the computer science and software research activities in Bell Labs, which focuses on security, software quality, systems, and scientific computing.

From Feb.1, 2004, as the Vice President of Bell Labs Research, he was also in charge of Bell Labs Research China. Currently, he is Alcatel-Lucent Ventures VP.