Bernd Girod
Professor of Electrical Engineering
and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Bernd Girod is Professor of Electrical Engineering in the
Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, California. He also
holds a courtesy appointment with the Stanford Department of Computer Science
and serves as Director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering
(SCIEN), the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication, and the
David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a bicoastal
institute between Stanford and Columbia University in New York City. Professor
Girod also has been appointed as Senior Associate Dean for Online Learning and
Professional Development in the Stanford School of Engineering.
He received his M. S. degree in Electrical Engineering from
Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1980 and his Doctoral degree from
University of Hannover, Germany, in 1987. He joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
USA, and was an Assistant
Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory until 1990. From 1990 to 1993, he was Professor of Computer Graphics
and Technical Director of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany,
jointly appointed with the Computer Science Section of Cologne University. From
1993 until 1999, he held the Chair of Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications at University
of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and was the Head of the Telecommunications Institute
I and director of the Telecommunications
Laboratory. He served as Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department from
1995 to 1997.
Professor Girod’s research over the course of three decades has
spanned a broad range of topics including image and video coding, networked
media systems, and image-based retrieval. He has authored or co-authored one
major text-book (printed in 3 languages), five monographs, and over 500 book
chapters, journal articles and conference papers, and is a named inventor of
over 25 US patents. He has been a member of the IEEE Image and Multidimensional
Signal Processing Technical Committee from 1989 to 1997 and has served on the
Editorial Boards for several journals in his field, among them as founding
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Area Editor
for Speech, Image, Video & Signal Processing of the IEEE Transactions on
Communications. He has served on numerous conference committees, e.g., as
Tutorial Chair of ICASSP-97 in Munich and again for ICIP-2000 in Vancouver, as
General Chair of the 1998 IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing
Workshop in Alpbach, Austria, as General Chair of the Visual Communication and
Image Processing Conference (VCIP) in San Jose, CA, in 2001, and General Chair
of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) at Stanford, CA, in 2004, and General
Co-Chair of ICIP-2008 in San Diego, and General Co-Chair of VCIP 2010 in China.
For over two decades, Professor Girod has worked with
numerous start-up ventures as founder, investor, director, or advisor. Most
notably, he has been a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Vivo Software, Inc.,
Waltham, MA (1993-98); after Vivo's aquisition, 1998-2002, Chief Scientist of
RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK). He has served on the Board of Directors for
8x8, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, (Nasdaq: EGHT) 1996-2004, and for GeoVantage, Inc., Swampscott, MA,
2000-2005. In 2007, he co-founded Dyyno, Inc. Palo Alto, CA. From 2004 to 2007,
he also served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the new Deutsche
Telekom Laboratories at the Technical University of Berlin. He currently serves
on the Board of ToKBox, San Francisco.
Professor Girod was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1998 'for
his contributions to the theory and practice of video communications' and a
Fellow of EURASIP in 2008. He has been named 'Distinguished Lecturer' for the
year 2002 by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received the the EURASIP
Signal Processing Best Paper Award in 2002, the IEEE Multimedia Communication
Best Paper Award in 2007, the EURASIP Image Communication Best Paper Award in
2008, the EURASIP Signal Processing Most Cited Paper Award in 2008, as well as
the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2004 and the Technical Achievement
Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2011. The German National Academy
of Sciences (Leopoldina) inducted him as a member 2007.