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Dr. Gerald Friedland is principal data scientist with Lawrence Livermore National Lab and is also teaching as an adjunct professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department of UC Berkeley. Before that, he had been with the International Computer Science Institute for 10 years. His work focusses on multimedia signal processing and machine learning. Specifically, large-scale video retrieval, geo-location and also privacy. He is the lead figure behind the Multimedia Commons initiative, a collection of 100M images and 1M videos for research and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles in conferences, journals, and books. He also co-authored a textbook on multimedia computing with Cambridge University Press. He is the recipient of several research and industry recognitions, among them the European Academic Software Award and the Multimedia Entrepreneur Award by the German Federal Department of Economics. Dr. Friedland received his doctorate (summa cum laude) and master's degree in computer science from Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.
Work Experience
- Principal Data Scientist, LLNL and Adjunct Faculty, UC Berkeley
- Director Audio and Multimedia, International Computer Science Institute
- CTO, Audeme.com
- Advisory board: Appscio.com, Aryia Technologies
- Computer Scientist, AI group, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Awards, Honors and Significant Achievements
- Winner of the ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2015. Yahoo! special award.
- Bay Area Maker Faire Editor’s Choice Award, 2014
- Associate Editor of the Year 2011 of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.
- Finalist of the ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2010
- Winner (first prize) of the ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009.
- IEEE CS Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contributions organizing the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 2007.
- 2nd price European Jax Innovation Award, 2006
- Nominated for the Ernst-Reuter Preis for the best Ph.D. thesis by department of mathematics and computer science at Freie Universität Berlin in 2006
- Finalist (8 of 192) MedidaPrix contest in 2003
- European Academic Software Award 2002
- Best Paper Award at the Informatiktage by the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. in 2002
- Winner of the Gründerwettbewerb Multimedia (multimedia business idea contest) by the German federal ministry of economics and technology in 2000
- Winner "Jugend forscht" (high school young scientists contest) in Berlin in 1998
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