NetMedia Lab (NML) is a research group in Simon Fraser University’s School of Computing Science. We design intelligent multimedia and distributed systems that operate across increasingly diverse computing and networking environments. Our work builds on longstanding strengths in multimedia communications, computer networking, Internet content distribution, video systems, system implementation, performance analysis, and optimization.

Today, we extend these foundations into immersive and volumetric media, distributed AI, cloud and edge computing, energy-efficient systems, wireless and space networking, and LEO satellite platforms. Projects such as SalmonVision apply this broader systems expertise to real-world challenges.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

NetMedia Lab members standing together in a snowy mountain landscape.
NetMedia Lab members on a winter hike at Cypress Mountain in British Columbia, Canada.

Supervisor

Jiangchuan Liu

Full Professor

School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

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Our people

Current lab members

Jiaxing Li

PhD candidate

Joined Fall 2023

Research areaLLM Application and Cloud/Edge Computing

Guanzhen Wu

PhD student

Joined Spring 2024

Research areaAI in Energy/Power system

Xianda Wang

PhD student

Joined Spring 2026

Research areaScene understanding; 3D navigation

Amy Lu

PhD student

Joined Fall 2026

Research areaMultimedia Systems and Networking

Yujie Feng

Master’s student

Joined Fall 2026

Research areaApplied ML & Computer Vision