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). His current research interests include
image and video coding, networked media systems, and image-based retrieval.
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 of Media Technology at the Media Laboratory there 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 the Chairman
of the Electrical Engineering Department from 1995 to 1997.
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. 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 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.
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.