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. He serves as Director both of the Stanford
Center for Image Systems
Engineering (SCIEN) and the Max Planck
Center for Visual Computing and
Communication. His research interests include video coding and networked media
systems.
He received his M.
S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, in
1980 and his Doctoral degree "with highest honours"
from University of Hannover, Germany, in 1987. Until
1987 he was a member of the research staff at the Institut
für Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung,
University of Hannover. In 1988, he joined
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA, USA,
first as a Visiting Scientist with the Research Laboratory of Electronics, then
as an Assistant Professor of Media Technology at the Media Laboratory. 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. He
was a Visiting Adjunct Professor with the Digital Signal Processing Group at
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA,
USA, in 1993. From 1993
until 1999, he was Chaired Professor of Electrical
Engineering/Telecommunications at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany,
and the Head of the Telecommunications Institute I, co-directing the
Telecommunications Laboratory. He served as the Chairman of the Electrical
Engineering Department from 1995 to 1997, and as
Director of the Center of Excellence
"3-D Image Analysis and Synthesis" from 1995-1999. He was a Visiting
Professor with the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, Stanford,
CA, during the 1997/98 academic year.
As an entrepreneur,
Professor Girod has worked successfully with several 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 and serves on
the Board of Directors of the company. 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.
Professor Girod has
authored or co-authored one major text-book (printed in 3 languages), four
monographs, and over 400 book chapters, journal articles and conference papers,
and is a named inventor of over 20 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 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.
Professor Girod was
elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1998 'for his contributions to the theory and
practice of video communications.' He has been named 'Distinguished Lecturer'
for the year 2002 by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received the 2002
EURASIP Best Paper Award (with J. Eggers) and the 2004 EURASIP Techical Achievement Award, the IEEE Multimedia Communication
Best Paper Award in 2007, and the EURASIP Image Communication Best Paper Award
2008. He was elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences
(Leopoldina) in 2007 and a Fellow of EURASIP in 2008.