Awards & Service
Awards
[selected awards]
- Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (opens in new tab) (NAE), 2012.
- Doctor Honoris Causa, (opens in new tab) University of Brasília, for contributions to science, technology, and society, 2022.
- Amar G. Bose Industrial Leader Award (opens in new tab) from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2020.
- 20th Century Landmark Award (opens in new tab), IEEE Seattle Section, 2014.
- Member of the Brazilian National Academy of Engineering (opens in new tab), 2014.
- Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (opens in new tab), 2013.
- Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (opens in new tab), 2012.
- Top 10% of Downloaded Papers, Muscle & Nerve (opens in new tab), Wiley, 2020.
- ICME Star Innovator Award, Runner-Up (opens in new tab), IEEE ICME Conference, 2019.
- Standards Technical Achievement Award to the JPEG XR team, Microsoft, 2009.
- Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, 2006.
- Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award (opens in new tab), IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2002.
- Wavelet Pioneer Award, SPIE, 2003.
- Best Paper Award, ACM Multimedia Conference, 2002.
- Fellow of the IEEE (opens in new tab), 1997.
- Best Paper Award in Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1992.
- Marconi Young Scientist Award, Marconi International Fellowship (opens in new tab), 1981.
Service
[selected positions]
- Graduation speaker (opens in new tab), UW Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 2021.
- Member of the Special Nominating Committee (opens in new tab) to improve Diversity & Inclusion, National Academy of Engineering, 2019-2023.
- Plenaries Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (opens in new tab) (ICASSP), 2018.
- Member of the Visiting Committee, University of Washington College of Engineering (opens in new tab), 2016-2019.
- Member of the Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Award (opens in new tab) committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2015–2017.
- Chair of the Advisory Board, University of Washington Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (opens in new tab), 2012–2016.
- Member of the Advisory Board, School of Computer and Communication Sciences (opens in new tab), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2011-2014.
- Member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (opens in new tab), IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1999–2004 and 2010–2013.
- Member of the Advisory Board for the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (opens in new tab) (LIDS), Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009–2013.
- Member of the Future Directions Committee, IEEE Technical Activities Board (opens in new tab), 2008–2011.
- Member of the Advisory Board, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (opens in new tab), University of Southern California, 2007–2012.
- Member of the CRA Snowbird Conference Committee (opens in new tab), Computer Research Association, 2007–2008.
- Publications Co-Chair and Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Data Compression Conference (opens in new tab), 2007-2021.
- Member of the Advisory Committee, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate (opens in new tab), National Science Foundation, 2006–2008.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (opens in new tab), 2002–2006.
- Member of the Editorial Board, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (opens in new tab), 1999 – 2018.
- Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Special Issue on Theory and Applications of Wavelets and Filter Banks, vol. 46, April 1998.
- Associate Editor for Speech Processing, Brazilian Telecommunications Magazine, 1992–1993.