John Apostolopoulos

Director, Mobile and Immersive Experience Lab
Palo Alto

Biography

John Apostolopoulos is a Distinguished Technologist and the Director of the Mobile and Immersive Experience Lab (MIX Lab), in HP Labs, directing about 75 researchers in Palo Alto, USA, Bangalore, India, and Bristol, England. The goals of the MIX Lab are (1) to create compelling networked media experiences that fundamentally change how people communicate, collaborate, socialize and entertain, (2) to develop multimedia technologies to deliver interactive, mobile, and immersive audio-visual experiences, (3) to develop natural and intuitive forms of interaction between people and technology, (4) to create the next generation of 2-D and 3-D display technologies and information surfaces for mobile and immersive environments, and (5) to create technologies that will make IT relevant, affordable and simple to consume for HP's next billion customers in rapidly emerging markets such as India and China.

His personal primary research interests include mobile and immersive communications, multimedia cloud computing, and improving the reliability, fidelity, scalability and security of multimedia communications over wired and wireless networks. His work on transcoding in the middle of a network while preserving end-to-end security (secure transcoding) has recently been adopted by the JPEG-2000 Security (JPSEC) standard.

Apostolopoulos received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. In graduate school, he worked on the U.S. Digital TV standard and received an Emmy Award Certificate for his contributions. 

Apostolopoulos was named “one of the world’s top 100 young (under 35) innovators in science and technology” (TR100) by MIT Technology Review in 2003, and has received a number of best paper awards. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008.

He also teaches and conducts joint research at Stanford University, where he is a Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and he is a frequent visiting lecturer in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

 

Research interests

Primary research interests include mobile and immersive communications, multimedia cloud computing, and improving the reliability, fidelity, scalability and security of multimedia communications over wired and wireless networks.  Architecture design for multimedia delivery systems, including mobile streaming media content delivery networks (MSM-CDNs) and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Multimedia signal processing, with an emphasis on video and novel sensors such as 3D depth sensors. Creating innovative and valuable mobile user experiences.

Publications

He has published over 100 technical papers, with several best papers awards. Recent noteworthy publications include:

Awards

ISO/IEC Certificate of Appreciation

For contributions to the development of the JPEG-2000 (JPSEC) international standard. (2011)

IEEE Fellow

For contributions to the principles and practice of video communications and secure media streaming. (2008)

MIT Technology Review 100

The world's top 100 under-35 innovators in science and technology (2003)

Technical Emmy Certificate

For contributions to the U.S. Digital TV standard

Professional Activities

  • Co-founder and technical co-chair IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications 2012
  • Technical co-chair, IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop (MMSP) 2011, focus on "Client-Cloud Multimedia Computing"
  • Past chair, IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP) technical committee
  • Co-guest editor for special issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on “Immersive Communication”, January 2011.
  • Member, IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) technical committee
  • Editorial board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (2000-2009)
  • Visiting lecturer at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2001-present)
  • Technical co-chair of IEEE ICIP 2007, and general co-chair of VCIP 2006 and IVCP 2005
  • Significant contributions to JPEG-2000 Security (JPSEC) standard, and HP’s primary representative to MPEG.

Recent Teaching

Patents

About 50 granted US patents.