Technical Advisory
Board
Dr. Cesar Bandera
Cesar Bandera is a principal at Creneaux LLC,
leading the company’s initiatives in e-Learning and scientific
outreach. He is also responsible for Creneaux’s Government
programs and contract R&D.
Dr. Bandera has twenty-five years experience in R&D, and has
served as principle investigator for over twenty Department of Defense,
NASA, and National Science Foundation projects in the areas of video
processing and artificial intelligence. While at Amherst Systems
(a Northrop Grumman Company) and AT&T Labs, he directed the
Foveal program in computer vision, which included NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Lab, Army Research Lab, Air Force Research Lab , the
Office of Naval Research, and universities in Europe and the US.
For transitioning research to commercial technology, Dr. Bandera
has been awarded the NASA Space Act award from Johnson Space Center,
a Small Business of the Year nomination from the USAF Rome Lab,
and highest distinction in the U.S. Air Force’sSmall Business
Innovative Research Accomplishments Report to Congress. Dr. Bandera
is on several industry and academic advisory boards, and serves
as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Bandera holds a Ph.D. and several patents
in computer vision, and has over thirty publications and directed
six Ph.D. dissertations on the subject.
Dr. Richard V. Cox
Richard V. Cox joined the Acoustics Research Department of Bell
Laboratories in 1979. He has conducted research in the areas of
speech coding, digital signal processing, analog voice privacy,
audio coding, real-time implementations, speech recognition, and
speech enhancement. In 1987 he was promoted to Supervisor of the
Digital Principles Research Group and in 1992 he was appointed Department
Head of the Speech Coding Research Department of AT&T Bell Labs.
In 1996 he joined AT&T Labs as Division Manager of the Speech
Processing Software & Technology Research Department and in
2000 he was appointed Speech and Image Processing Services Research
Vice-President.In 2002 as part of a re-organization, he was appointed
Voice Enabled Services Research Vice-President.
Dr. Cox was awarded the AT&T Science
and Technology Medal and in 2000 the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
Dr. Cox is a Fellow of the IEEE and is currently President of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Dr. Cox received his B.S. from Rutgers University and his Ph.D.
from Princeton University, both in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. James L. Flanagan
James Flanagan is Vice President for Research at Rutgers University.
He is also Director of the Center for Advanced Information Processing
(CAIP), and Board of Governors Professor in Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
Flanagan joined Rutgers after extended service in research and research
management at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His research has centered
in voice communications, computer techniques, compression algorithms,
and electroacoustic systems. Flanagan has published approximately
200 technical papers in scientific journals. He is the author of
a research text Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Perception (Springer
Verlag), which has appeared in five printings and two editions,
and has been translated in Russian. He holds 50 U.S. patents in
his specialty fields.
Flanagan has served in officer and board positions for a number
of technical societies, government and academic organizations -
including the Department of Defense, National Research Council,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, American Institute
of Physics, IEEE, Acoustical Society of America, and several universities.
Flanagan has received scientific awards which include the National
Medal of Science, presented by the President of the United States,
the L.M. Ericsson International Prize in Telecommunications, presented
by the King of Sweden, the Edison Medal of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers, the Medal of the European Speech Communication
Association, the Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America,
and the Marconi International Fellowship, presented by the Crown
Prince of Spain. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the Acoustical Society
of America, and of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences. He
has been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris-Sud
and from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He is a member of
the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of
Sciences.
Following service in the U.S. Army, Flanagan received his B.S. degree
from Mississippi State University and his M.S. and Sc.D. degrees
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Electrical
Engineering.
Dr. Arturo Pizano
Arturo Pizano is Head of the Multimedia/Video Technology Department
of Siemens Corporate Research. As part of the Central Research and
Development organization of Siemens AG, his department is responsible
for developing next generation multimedia technologies for integration
into the company's products, services and solutions, which include
comprehensive offerings in the mobile communications field.Before
joining Siemens in 1993, he worked at the Software Research Center
of Ricoh Corporation.
Dr. Pizano holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer
Science from UCLA, and BS degree in Actuarial Sciences from the
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Dr. Lawrence Rabiner
Dr. Lawrence Rabiner joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1967 as a Member
of the Technical Staff. He was promoted to Supervisor in 1972, Department
Head in 1985, Director in 1990, and Functional Vice President in
1995. He joined the newly created AT&T Labs in 1996 as Director
of the Speech and Image Processing Services Research Lab, and was
promoted to Vice President of Research in 1998 where he managed
a broad research program in communications, computing, and information
sciences technologies.
Dr. Rabiner retired from AT&T at the end of March 2002 and is
now a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers
University, and the Associate Director of the Center for Advanced
Information Processing (CAIP) at Rutgers.
Dr. Rabiner is co-author of four books on digital signal processing
and speech recognition. He has written or co-authored over 300 articles
and has been the recipient of 25 patents. He received the IEEE's
Group on Audio and Electroacoustics' Paper Award, the Achievement
Award; the Emanuel R. Piore Award, the ASSP Society Award; the Centennial
Medal, and the SPS Magazine Award. Dr. Rabiner is a member of Eta
Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, the National Academy of Engineering,
the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Acoustical
Society of America, the IEEE, Bell Laboratories, and AT&T. He
is a former President of the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing Society, a former Vice-President of the Acoustical Society
of America, a former editor of the ASSP Transactions, and a former
member of the IEEE Proceedings Editorial Board.
Dr. Rabiner received his bachelor's, master's,
and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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