Appscio: Advisors
Dr. Gerald Friedland
Dr. Gerald Friedland is an active researcher in intelligent multimedia technology. Currently, Gerald is working with the Speech Group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), an independent non-profit laboratory closely affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he is leading the Speaker Diarization research. He has co-authored more than 65 research papers in well-respected journals, conference proceedings, and books, along with his dissertation "Adaptive Audio and Video Processing for Electronic Chalkboard Lectures."
Gerald is the recipient of several research and industry recognitions, among them the Multimedia Entrepreneur Award from the German government and the European Academic Software Award. He is known to have influenced various open-source applications, such as GIMP, where he contributed the new automatic foreground selection tool.
Gerald is the Program Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2008)as well as co-organizer for the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2008). He received the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his contributions to organizing the inaugural IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007). In 2007, Gerald also co-organized the Educational Multimedia and Multimedia Education (EMME 2007) Workshop at ACM Multimedia 2007.
Dr. Ramesh Jain
Dr. Ramesh Jain is a world-renowned pioneer and active researcher in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision and intelligent systems. He is also an educator, having taught at several important U.S. universities, and is currently the first Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. While professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual computing labs. Prior to coming to UC Irvine from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Ramesh founded and directed the Experiential Systems Group. He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and Machine Vision and Applications journal and serves on the editorial boards of several magazines in multimedia, business and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 250 research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. Among his co-authored and co-edited books include Machine Vision, a textbook used at several universities.
Ramesh has been named a fellow by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
He is the founder of three companies which he managed in their initial stages, then turned over to professional management. Most recently, he was the co-founder of PRAJA, Inc. located in San Diego, which was acquired by TIBCO Software, Inc. PRAJA was the leading provider of infrastructure software technology for development of event-based information management. Prior to PRAJA, he was the founding CEO and Chairman of Virage (NASD: VRGE), a San Mateo-based company developing systems for media management solutions and visual information management. He was also the Founder and Chairman of ImageWare Inc., which was acquired by SDRC. ImageWare provided solutions for surface modeling, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, and inspection. In 1999, he was a finalist for the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.