Dr. Rico MALVAR
Managing Director, Microsoft Research Redmond
Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
微软雷德蒙德研究院院长，微软公司“杰出工程师”
http://research.microsoft.com/users/malvar/

 

BIO:
Rico Malvar is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, and the Managing Director of Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. He holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Before Joining Microsoft in 1997, he was a Vice President of Research and Advanced Development at PictureTel Corporation, and prior to that he was with the faculty of University of Brasilia for 14 years. As the Director at Microsoft Research, he oversees the activities of over 25 research groups, in many areas related to computers science. His technical interests include multimedia signal compression and enhancement, fast algorithms, multi-rate filter banks, and wavelet transforms; he has over 140 publications and over 70 patents in those areas. Dr. Malvar is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the editorial board of the journal Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, and a former Associate Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He received the Young Scientist Award from the Marconi International Fellowship in 1981, the Best Paper Award in Image Processing from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1992, the 2002 Technical Achievement Award, also from the IEEE SP Society, and the Wavelet Pioneer Award from the SPIE in 2004.

Presentation Title: Ensuring Microsoft's Future: An Overview of Microsoft Research

Abstract:
Microsoft’s continuing success in the software industry depends heavily on successful deployment of innovative technologies, and Microsoft Research is in the forefront of driving technological innovation for Microsoft. In this talk we present an overview of Microsoft Research; we discuss the culture and missions of our Research Labs, our emphasis on diversity, and our strong ties with Academia, which are fundamental for the success of a true research organization. We present an overview of the research areas and groups, and several examples of advanced technologies developed at Microsoft Research.