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Dan Schonfeld Professional Biography
ECE Dept. (M/C
154) Dr. Schonfeld was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, on June 11, 1964. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, California, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1986, 1988, and 1990, respectively. In August 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, where he is currently a Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Bioengineering, and Co-Director of the Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MCL) and member of the Signal and Image Research Laboratory (SIRL). Dr. Schonfeld has authored over 120 technical papers in various journals and conferences. He was co-author (with Junlan Yang) of a paper that won the Best Student Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2007. He was also co-author (with Wei Qu) of a paper that won the Best Student Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2006. He was also co-author (with Nidhal Bouaynaya) of a paper that won the Best Student Paper Award in Visual Communication and Image Processing 2006. Dr. Schonfeld is currently serving as Region 1-6 representative in the Chapters Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is also serving as Chairman of the Chicago IEEE Signal Processing Chapter. He is currently serving on the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee. He has been elected as a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr. Schonfeld is currently serving as special sections area editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is currently also serving as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing on Image and Video Storage, Retrieval and Analysis and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology on Video Analysis. He has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing on Multidimensional Signal Processing and Multimedia Signal Processing as well as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing on Nonlinear Filtering. Dr. Schonfeld has served as chair of the SPIE Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing 2007. He was a member of the organizing committees of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 1998 and 2012 and IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing 1997. He was also the plenary speaker at the INPT/ASME International Conference on Communications, Signals, and Systems in 1995 and 2001. Dr. Schonfeld has served as consultant and technical standards committee member in the areas of multimedia compression, storage, retrieval, communications, and networks. He has previously served as President of Multimedia Systems Corp. and provided consulting and technical services to various corporations including AOL Time Warner, C-Cor, Charter Communications, Chicago Merchantile Exchange, Choate, Hall, Stewart, Collaboration Properties, Dell Computer Corp., Getco Corp., EarthLink, Fish & Richardson, Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, Hewlett-Packard, Humax USA, IBM, Irell & Manella, Jones Day, Latham & Watkins, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, Mirror Image Internet, Motorola, Multimedia Systems Corp., nCUBE, NeoMagic, Nixon & Vanderhye, PrairieComm, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, SmartSignal, Teledyne Systems, TiVo, Touchtunes Music, Xcelera, and 24/7 Media. His current research interests are in multi-dimensional signal processing; image and video analysis; computer vision; and genomic signal processing. Last
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