Nationality American Fields Electrical engineering Name Robert Gray | Known for Vector quantization Institutions Stanford University | |
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Born November 1, 1943 (age 80)
San Diego, California ( 1943-11-01 ) Alma mater University of Southern California Doctoral students Michelle Effros
David Neuhoff
Eve Riskin Notable awards Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2007)
Claude E. Shannon Award (2008) Education University of Southern California (1969), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Awards Claude E. Shannon Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Doctoral advisor Robert A. Scholtz, Irwin M. Jacobs Books Vector Quantization and Sign, An introduction to statistic, Entropy and informatio, Probability - random processe, Source coding theory Similar People Joseph W Goodman, Robert A Scholtz, Fei‑Fei Li, Claude Shannon | ||
Robert M. Gray: Source Coding and Simulation
Robert M. Gray (born November 1, 1943) is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and compression, particularly the development of vector quantization.
Contents
- Robert M Gray Source Coding and Simulation
- Awards
- Early life
- Books
- Notable professional service
- References
Awards
Gray received the 2008 Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, for his fundamental contributions to information theory, particularly in the area of quantization theory. He was also the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society, the 1993 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award, and the 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal. Gray received the 2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from the National Science Foundation.
Amongst other honors, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007, and received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
Early life
Born in 1943 in San Diego, Gray grew up in Coronado, California. He was a middle child in a family of five.
Gray followed his two older brothers to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned the B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1966, where he was a classmate of Lawrence Rabiner. Gray earned the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1969; his Ph.D. advisor was Robert A. Scholtz. During his graduate school years, he played guitar in the rock band "MCF".
He began his career at the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory, following a family naval tradition.
Books
Gray has written or co-authored a number of technical texts, including:
Gray is also an amateur historian and has collected together some historical letters from diplomats into books:
Notable professional service
Gray is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Information Theory (1981–1983), and served on the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors (1974–1980, 1984–1987) and IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (1999–2001).