Qian Huang, Ph.D. is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office. She is a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department. She focuses her practice on patent prosecution.
Prior to practicing law, Qian was a research scientist at international corporations such as IBM, Siemens, and AT&T, where she worked on automated multimedia content generation and retrieval, video processing and indexing, speaker recognition, text categorization and summarization, broadband multimedia applications, medical imaging, and query by image content. By working at research laboratories of these well known corporations, Qian gained extensive experience in areas of signal processing, pattern recognition, Internet and multimedia, medical imaging and telecommunications.
Qian received her J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. Qian has a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Science. She also earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering with a specialization in signal processing and pattern recognition from Michigan State University.
Qian published 46 academic papers in various technical areas in different academic journals and at international conferences. She is an inventor of multiple patents.
Qian is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
Education:
Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 2005
Michigan State University, Ph.D. (with honors), 1994
Kansas State University, M.S. (with honors), 1989
Shanghai University of Technology, B.S., 1984 |