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Marcelo J. Weinberger
Manager, Information Theory Research
Biography:
Marcelo Weinberger was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1959. He
received the Electrical Engineer degree from the Universidad de la
Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1983, and the M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees
from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1987
and 1991, respectively, both in electrical engineering.
From 1985 to 1992 he was with the Department of Electrical
Engineering at Technion, joining the faculty for the 1991--1992 academic
year. During 1992--1993 he was a Visiting Scientist at IBM Almaden
Research Center, San Jose, California. He joined Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, in 1993. His research interests
are in information theory and statistical modeling, including source
coding, image compression, and sequential decision problems.
Dr. Weinberger is a co-inventor of the image compression algorithm at
the core of the JPEG-LS standard, and was an editor of the standard
specification. He also contributed to the coding algorithm of the
emerging JPEG2000 standard. Dr. Weinberger is an Associate Editor for
Source Coding for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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