CV of Robert M. Gray
Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Networking and Communications
in the School of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering

November 19, 2009

Education
MIT, Cambridge, MA B.S.& M.S. 1966 Electrical Engineering
USC, Los Angeles, CA Ph.D. 1969 Electrical Engineering

Professional Experience

4 semesters during 1962-1965: Engineer, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Md. (As MIT cooperative student.) Digital logic design, passive sonar systems.

1965-1966: Teaching Assistant, MIT

Summers 1966, 1967: Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Tracking loop analysis for Mariner 5, studies of flicker noise in phase-locked loops, sequential decoding for deep space communications.

1967-1969: NSF Graduate Trainee, University of Southern California

1969: Lecturer, University of Southern California.

1969-present: Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University: 69-75 Asst. Prof., 75-80 Assoc. Prof., 80-present Prof., 2004 Lucent Technologies Professor of Networking and Communications in the School of Engineering, currently Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Networking and Communications in the School of Engineering

1972-1973: Nonresident instructor, M.I.T. (taught Applied Probability class as part of the MIT VI-A Cooperative program)

1984-1987: Director, Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University

June 1993- 2007: Vice Chair, Dep't. of Electrical Eng., Stanford

2007 - Faculty Affiliate of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

Selected Professional Activities

Co-Chair (with Professor Rabab Ward), Banff International Research Station Workshop on Multimedia and Mathematics, July 23-28, 2005.

Co-Chair (with Professors Rabab Ward, Eve Riskin, and Sheila Hemami), Banff International Research Station Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering Academia, July 2007.

Editor-in-Chief, (2007- ), Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing.

Associate Editor (1977-1981) and Editor-in-Chief (1981-1983), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory;

Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 1998 - 2001

Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors, 1974-1980, 1984-1987.

IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors, 1/99 - 12/2001.

Banff International Research Station (BIRS) Scientific Advisory Board and Program Committee, 2006-2009.

Conference/Symposia Program Committees:

Secretary-Treasurer, IEEE 1971 International Symposium on Information Theory Co-Chair, IEEE 1993 International Symposium on Information Theory, San Antonio, TX

Program Co-Chair, 1997 (Santa Barbara) and 2004 (Singapore) IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Elected member, IEEE Signal Processing Society Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (1994-2003) , Vice Chair 1998-2000, Chair 2000-2001), Appointed member, IEEE Signal Processing Society Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (1997-2000)

1992: National Science Foundation (NSF) Signal Processing Advisory Committee Member

1992: Visiting Committee, Duke University Electrical Engineering Department

1992-1993: Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center (FASAC) Data Compression Foreign Technology Assessment Committee, Chair and Editor of Report, prepared for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) under U.S. Government sponsorship

Chair, National Science Foundation Workshop/Panel on Signal Processing for the National Information Infrastructure, Arlington, VA, 17-18 August 1994.

Ad Hoc Mammography Committee, Breast Cancer Research Program, U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, May 1995 - January 1996.

Member, Editorial Board of Signal Processing: Image Communications, published by EURASIP and Elsevier. 2000 - 2005.

Chair, PAESMEM/Stanford School of Engineering Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering, June 21-22 2004. Proceedings Editor (the Proceedings may be found at http://ee.stanford.edu/ gray/proceedings.pdf)

Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society Nominations and Appointments Committee, 2003-2006.

Member, IEEE Information Theory Society Shannon Award Committee, 2009

Member, IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal Committee, 2009

Academic Administration

Vice Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, July 1993 - 2005, 2006 - 2007.

Chair, Academic Affairs Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering July 1993 - 2005

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Executive Committee, April 1984-December 1987, July 1993 - 2005, 2006 - 2007

Director, Information Systems Laboratory (one of the five laboratories constituting the department, roughly fourteen faculty and 80 PhD students) April 1984-December 1987

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Appointments and Promotions Committee, January 1988-1989

Co-Director, Stanford University Information Systems Laboratory Industrial Affiliates Program, 1986-1998, Director 1998 - 2004.

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Long Range Planning Committee, 1985-1986

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Ad Hoc Committee on Telecommunications, 1985-1987 (Chair, 1986-1987)

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Computer Committee, 1983-1987, 1993 - 2005.

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Master's Administration Committee, 1970-1977, 1982-2005. (Chair after 1972)

Member, School of Engineering Library Committee, 1979-1984.

Acting Director, Information Systems Laboratory Industrial Affiliates Program, 1984-1986.

Acting Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, September 1999.

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Committee to Investigate New Research Areas, 1970-1971

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Committee on Research in Engineering Education, 1970-1971

Member, School of Engineering Student-Faculty Liason Committee, 1970-1973

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Graduate Degree Committee, 1972-1977, 1982-2005.

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Admissions and Financial Awards Committee, 1972-1977

Chairman, Electrical Engineering Department Faculty Awards Committee, 1975-1976

Member, Electrical Engineering Department Sigma Xi Committee, 1978-1986

Chairman of two Electrical Engineering Department Faculty Search Committees and member of two others, 1983-1985, 1998-1999, 2000.

Honors

National Science Foundation Graduate Traineeship, 1967-1969.

IEEE Professional Group on Information Theory Paper Award (1976)

IEEE ASSP Society Senior Award (1983) (paper prize)

IEEE Centennial Medal (1984)

IEEE Signal Processing Society 1993 Society Award.

Okawa Foundation Research Grant, 1996

IEEE Signal Processing Society 1997 Technical Achievement Award,

IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation (1998)

IEEE Third Millenium Medal (2000)

Elected Fellow of IEEE (1980) and the IMS (1992).

Fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the University of Osaka (1981), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation at the University of Paris XI (1982), and NATO/Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche at the University of Naples (1990). Vinton Hayes Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University (spring 1995).

2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) (March 2003)

University of Southern California 2003 Distinguished Alumni in Academia Award

First Lucent Technologies Chair in Communications and Networking in the School of Engineering (January 2004)

IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2006-2007

IEEE Signal Processing Society 2005 Meritorious Service Award

National Academy of Engineering, 2007

2008 Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society.

2008 Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal from the IEEE

2008-2009 Research Fellowship at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

Visiting Positions

Other Technical Activities

Advanced Class Amateur Radio License (KB6XQ).

Students A complete list of PhD students with current locations (if known) may be found at http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/students.html.

Hobbies History, especially that of the wives and daughters of Gilded Age diplomats. Two Web books on the subject can be found at http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/amy.html and http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/amykorea.html. Hiking, rare books, and guitar.

Personal Married to Arlene Gray. Two children, six grandchildren.

Selected Publications from 120 refereed journal articles, 7 books, 2 edited collections, and numerous book chapters and conference presentations. A complete list is available at http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/publications.html.

Journal Articles
R. M. Gray and R. C. Tauseworth, "Frequency-counted measurements and phase locking to noisy oscillators," IEEE Trans. on Comm. Tech., Vol. COM-19, No. 1, pp. 21-30, Feb. 1971.

R. M. Gray and L. D. Davisson, "Source coding without the ergodic assumption," IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, Vol. IT-20, No. 4, pp. 502-516, July 1974. (Received the 1976 IEEE Information Theory Group Paper Award.)

R. M. Gray and A. D. Wyner, "Source coding over simple networks," Bell Systems Tech. J., Vol. 53, No. 9, pp. 1681-1721, Nov. 1974.

D.L. Neuhoff, R. M. Gray and L. D. Davisson, "Fixed rate universal block source coding with a fidelity criterion," IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, Vol. IT-21, No. 5, pp. 511-523, Sept. 1975.

R. M. Gray and A. Macovski "Maximum a posteriori estimation of position in scintillation cameras," IEEE Trans. on Nucl. Sci., Vol. NS-23, No. 1, pp. 849-852, Feb. 1976.

Y. Linde, A. Buzo and R. M. Gray, "An algorithm for vector quantizer design," IEEE Trans. on Comm., Vol. COM-28, pp. 84-95, Jan. 1980.

R. M. Gray, D. S. Ornstein and R. L. Dobrushin, "Block synchronization, sliding-block coding, invulnerable sources, and zero error codes for discrete noisy channels," Ann. Prob., Vol. 8, pp. 639-674, Aug. 1980.

A. Buzo, A.H. Gray, Jr., R.M. Gray, and J.D. Markel, "Speech coding based upon vector quantization,"IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-28, pp. 562-574, October 1980. (Received the 1983 IEEE ASSP Senior Award.)

L.C. Stewart, R.M. Gray, and Y. Linde, "The design of trellis waveform coders," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-30, pp.702-710, April 1982. (First codebook excited linear predictive speech codes.)

R.M. Gray, "Vector Quantization," IEEE ASSP Magazine, Vol. 1, pp. 4-29, April 1984.

R.M. Gray, "Oversampled Sigma-Delta Modulation," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-35, pp. 481-489, April 1987.

P. A. Chou, T. Lookabaugh, and R. M. Gray, "Entropy constrained vector quantization," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-37, pp. 31-42, January 1989. (Received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Award for best paper by an author under 30 (Chou and Lookabaugh).)

P.A. Chou, T. Lookabaugh, and R.M. Gray, "Optimal pruning with applications to tree-structured source coding and modeling,", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, pp. 299-315, March 1989.

T. M. Cover, P. Gacs, and R. M. Gray, "Kolmogorov's contributions to information theory and algorithmic complexity," Annals of Probability, Vol. 17, pp. 840-865, July 1989.

E. A. Riskin, T. Lookabaugh, P. A. Chou, and R. M. Gray, Variable rate vector quantization for medical image compression, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 9, pp. 290-298, September 1990.

R. M. Gray,"Spectral analysis of quantization noise," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 36, pp. 1220-1244, November 1990.

R. M. Gray and T. G. Stockham, Jr. "Dithered quantizers,"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 39, No. 3, May 1993, pp. 805-812.

P. C. Cosman, E. A. Riskin, K. L. Oehler, and R. M. Gray, "Using Vector Quantization for Image Processing," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol 81, no 9, pp. 1326-1341, September 1993.

P. C. Cosman, C. Tseng, R. M. Gray, R. A. Olshen, L. E. Moses, H. C. Davidson, C. J. Bergin, and E. A. Riskin, "Tree-structured vector quantization of CT chest scans: image quality and diagnostic accuracy," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, December 1993 Volume 12 (4), pp. 727-739.

P. C. Cosman, H C. Davidson, C. J. Bergin, C. Tseng, L. E. Moses, E. A. Riskin, R. A. Olshen, and R. M. Gray, "The Effect of Lossy Compression on Diagnostic Accuracy of Thoracic CT Images," Radiology, 190:517-524, January 1994.

P. C. Cosman, R. M. Gray, and R. A. Olshen, "Evaluating Quality of Compressed Medical Images: SNR, Subjective Rating, and Diagnostic Accuracy," Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 82, pp. 919-932, June 1994.

K.L. Oehler and R.M. Gray, "Combining image compression and classification using vector quantization," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 17, pp. 461-473, May 1995.

P.C. Cosman, R.M. Gray, and M. Vetterli, "Vector quantization of image subbands: A survey," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.5, no.2, pp. 202-25. February, 1996.

S. M. Perlmutter, P. C. Cosman, R. M. Gray, R. A. Olshen, D. Ikeda, C. N. Adams, B.J. Betts, M. Williams, K. O. Perlmutter, J. Li, A. Aiyer, L. Fajardo, R. Birdwell, and B. L. Daniel "Image Quality in Lossy Compressed Digital Mammograms," Signal Processing, Special Section on Medical Image Compression, pp. 189-210, Vol. 59, No. 2, June 1997.

S.M. Perlmutter, P.C. Cosman,C. Tseng, R.A. Olshen, R.M. Gray, K.C.P. Li, and C.J. Bergin, "Medical image compression and vector quantization," Statistical Science, Vol. 13, No. 1, February 1998.

B. Girod, R.M. Gray, and Jelena Kovacevic, "Image and Video Coding," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 15, pp. 40-46, March 1998.

R.M. Gray and D.L. Neuhoff, "Quantization," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 44, pp. 2325-2384, October 1998. (Shannon Commemorative Issue, 1948-1998).

J. Li, R.M. Gray, and R.A. Olshen, "Multiresolution image classification by hierarchical modeling with two dimensional hidden Markov models," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46, pp. 1826-1841, August 2000.

R.M. Gray, T. Linder, and J. Li, "A Lagrangian Formulation of Zador's Entropy-Constrained Quantization Theorem," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 695-707, Vol. 48, Number 3, March 2002.

R.M. Gray and T. Linder, "Mismatch in high rate entropy constrained vector quantization," Vol. 49, pp. 1204-1217g, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, May, 2003.

Robert M. Gray, "The 1974 origins of VoIP," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 22, July 2005, pp. 87-90.

Robert M. Gray, Tamás Linder, and John T. Gill III, "Lagragnian vector quantization," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 54, Issue 5, May 2008, pp. 2220 - 2242.

Books and book chapters

R.M. Gray, Probability, Random Processes, and Ergodic Properties, Springer-Verlag, 1988. Second Edition, August 2009.

R. M. Gray, Entropy and Information Theory, Springer-Verlag, 1990.

A. Gersho and R.M. Gray, Vector Quantization and Signal Compression, Kluwer Academic Press, 1992.

R. M. Gray, P. C. Cosman, and K. Oehler, "Incorporating visual factors into vector quantization for image compression," contributed chapter in Digital Images and Human Vision, B. Watson, Ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1993, pp. 35-52.

P.C. Cosman, R.M. Gray, and R.A. Olshen, "Vector quantization: Clustering and classification trees," pp. 93-108, in Advances in Applied Statistics: Statistics and Images:2, K.V. Mardia, Ed., Carfax Publishing Company, Abingdon, UK, 1994.

R.M. Gray "Quantization noise in DeltaSigma A/D converters," Chapter 2 of Delta-Sigma Data Converters, edited by S. Norsworthy, R. Schreier, and G. Temes, IEEE Press, 1997, pp. 44-74.

Jia Li and Robert M. Gray, Image Segmentation and Compression Using Hidden Markov Models, Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, 2000.

Pamela Cosman, Robert M. Gray, and Richard Olshen, "Quality evaluation for compressed medical images: fundamentals," pp. 803 - 819 of Handbook of medical imaging, Ed. Isaac N. Bankman, Academic Press, 2000.

Pamela Cosman, Robert M. Gray, and Richard Olshen, "Quality evaluation for compressed medical images: diagnostic accuracy," pp. 821 - 839, Ibid..

Pamela Cosman, Robert M. Gray, and Richard Olshen, "Quality evaluation for compressed medical images: statistical issues," pp. 841 - 850, Ibid.

Chee Son Won and Robert M. Gray, Stochastic Image Processing, Springer/Kluwer/Plenum, 2004.

Robert M. Gray and Lee D. Davisson, Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, December 2004, Cambridge University Press. Individual copies available for download at http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/sp.html.