Bernd Girod

Bernd Girod (born December 1, 1957) is a German-American engineer, the Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.[1] Girod is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Bernd Girod
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology; University of Hannover, Germany
Known forMultimedia Systems; Image and Video Coding format; Streaming Media; Visual Search - QBIC; Computer Vision
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Engineering, Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Education and Career

Girod received his M.S. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (1980) and his Dr.-Ing in electrical engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany (1987).[1][2]

Prior to Stanford, he was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Erlangen– Nuremberg and an assistant professor of media technology at the MIT Media Lab.

Research

His research interests are in image and video coding, computer vision, and multimedia systems.[3] In 1998, Bernd Girod was elevated to fellowship of the IEEE for contributions to the theory and practice of video communication.[4]

Girod's research has been central in startup ventures, including Polycom, Vivo Software, 8x8, and RealNetworks.[1][5] He holds nearly 40 patents.[6]

Professional activities

He is a Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering (SCIEN)[7] and a Director of the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication.[8] He was Founding Director of David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovations (2012-2015), a Senior Associate Dean for the Online Learning and Professional Development, School of Engineering at Stanford University (2012-2015), and a Senior Associate Dean at large for the School of Engineering at Stanford University (2015-2016).

He is currently an advisor[9] of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.[10]

Selected publications
  • Girod, Bernd; Chandrasekhar, Vijay (July 2011). "Mobile Visual Search". IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 28 (4): 61–76. Bibcode:2011ISPM...28...61G. doi:10.1109/msp.2011.940881. S2CID 14744873.
  • Girod, Bernd; Farber, Niko (October 1999). "Feedback-Based Error Control for Mobile Video Transmission". Proceedings of the IEEE. 87 (10): 1707–1723. doi:10.1109/5.790632.

Awards and honors
  • Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering 2015[11][12]
  • Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society 2011, “for his contributions to the theory and practice of video communications, search and processing.”[13]
  • Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) 2007[14]
  • Fellow, IEEE 1998. His citation reads, “For contributions to the theory and practice of video communication.”[15]

References
  1. "Bernd Girod: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. https://profiles.stanford.edu/bernd-girod Stanford University profile pages
  3. "Bernd Girod - Google Scholar Citations". Scholar.google.com. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  4. "IEEE Fellows 1998 | IEEE Communications Society". IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  5. Hendrix, Justin (27 February 2017). "Building the ultimate display". Haptical.al. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  6. "Search Patents - Justia Patents Search". Patents.justia.com. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  7. "Leadership". Archived from the original on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  8. "Directors - MPC-VCC". Mpc-vcc.org. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  9. "People – Brown Institute". Brown.columbia.edu. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  10. "Columbia Journalism School and Stanford School of Engineering Announce Joint 30 Million Gift From David and Helen Gurley Brown". Hearst.com. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  11. "Dr. Bernd Girod". NAE Website. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  12. "Bernd Girod elected to National Academy of Engineering". Stanford School of Engineering. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  13. "Award Recipients". IEEE Signal Processing Society. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  14. "List of Members". www.leopoldina.org. Archived from the original on 2019-06-03.
  15. "IEEE FELLOWS 1998 - IEEE Communications Society". Comsoc.org. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
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