Prof. Alan Conrad Bovik
Present Designation:
Professor, The University of Texas at AustinAreas of Interest:
Perceptual optimization of streaming and social media and extended reality.
Specialisation:
Image and Video Processing and Communication
Visual Neuroscience
Visual Psychophysics
Streaming Video
Social Media
Extended Reality
Image Quality
Video Quality
Visual Perception
Major Professional Contributions:
· * For pioneering high-impact scientific and engineering contributions leading to the perceptually optimized global streaming and sharing of visual media (Edison Medal Citation).
·** For developments in engineering that are so extensive an improvement on existing methods, and so innovative in nature, that they materially affect the transmission, recording, and reception of television (Primetime Emmy Award Citation).
* For seminal contributions and high-impact innovations to the theory and application of perception-based image and video processing (Fourier Award Citation).
· * For the development of perceptual metrics for video encoding optimization (Technology and Emmy Award Citation).
· * For his inventions which have resulted in important advances in the scientific and technological development of photography and imaging (RPS Progress Medal Citation)
· * For substantially shaping the direction and advancement of modern perceptual picture quality theory, and for energetically engaging industry to transform his ideas into global practice (Optica Edwin H. Land Medal Citation).
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·** For developments in engineering that are so extensive an improvement on existing methods, and so innovative in nature, that they materially affect the transmission, recording, and reception of television (Primetime Emmy Award Citation).
* For seminal contributions and high-impact innovations to the theory and application of perception-based image and video processing (Fourier Award Citation).
· * For the development of perceptual metrics for video encoding optimization (Technology and Emmy Award Citation).
· * For his inventions which have resulted in important advances in the scientific and technological development of photography and imaging (RPS Progress Medal Citation)
· * For substantially shaping the direction and advancement of modern perceptual picture quality theory, and for energetically engaging industry to transform his ideas into global practice (Optica Edwin H. Land Medal Citation).
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Education
PHD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1984
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1982
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1980
Awards and Recognitions
IEEE Edison Medal (2022)
Primetime Emmy Award (2015)
IEEE Fourier Award (2019)
Technology and Engineering Emmy Award (2021)
RPS Progress Medal (2019)
Link to Website
https://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/alan-bovikINAE Section Affiliated
II: Computer and Information Technology
Year of Election to Fellowship
2023
Year of Birth
1958
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