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Bernd Girod
Professor at Stanford University
Bernd Girod is the Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, California, with a rich background in academia and industry.
He served as the Senior Associate Dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford and was the Founding Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation with Columbia University.
Before joining Stanford, he was a Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, focusing on image, video, and multimedia systems.
Professor Girod's extensive research contributions include over 600 conference and journal papers and 6 books, earning numerous prestigious awards in the field of signal processing and multimedia communication.
As an entrepreneur, he has been involved in successful startup ventures such as Polycom, Vivo Software, 8x8, and RealNetworks.
Bernd Girod holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany, and a Master of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
He is a respected Fellow of the IEEE and EURASIP, as well as a member of prestigious academies like the German National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.