Leadership

Gordon Wetzstein is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the director of the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab and a faculty director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering. At the intersection of computer graphics and vision, artificial intelligence, computational optics, and applied vision science, Prof. Wetzstein’s research has a wide range of applications in next-generation imaging, wearable computing, and neural rendering systems. Prof. Wetzstein is a Fellow of Optica and the IEEE, and the recipient of several awards, including an IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award, an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, an ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), an SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, an Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award, an Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Award as well as many Best Paper and Demo Awards.

Joyce Farrell is a Senior Research Associate in the Stanford School of Engineering and the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering (SCIEN). She received a doctorate degree from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego. Joyce has authored over 100 conference and journal papers on imaging systems, simulation and human perception, and has more than 20 years of research and professional experience working at a variety of companies and institutions, including the NASA Ames Research Center, New York University, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and Shutterfly. She is a Fellow of the Society of Imaging Science and Technology and the co-founder of two startup companies (ImagEval Consulting, LLC and Image Data Management, LLC).

Bernd Girod is the Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor, Emeritus, of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, California. He received an Engineering Doctorate from University of Hannover, Germany, and an M.S. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Until 1999, he was a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Erlangen– Nuremberg. He has authored nearly 600 conference and journal papers and six books, receiving the EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper Award in 2002, the IEEE Multimedia Communication Best Paper Award in 2007, the EURASIP Image Communication Best Paper Award in 2008, the EURASIP Signal Processing Most Cited Paper Award in 2008, the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2004, and the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2011. His research interests are in the area of image, video, and multimedia systems. As a founder, angel investor, and advisor, he has been involved in numerous startup ventures, among them Polycom, Vivo Software, 8x8, and RealNetworks. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a EURASIP Fellow, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).