Scholar
Antonio Ortega
Google Scholar ID: K4bCJYcAAAAJ
Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
11,006
H-index
37
i10-index
122
Publications
20
Co-authors
175
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the IEEE; Former Chair of the Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) technical committee, member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), and chair of the SPS Big Data Special Interest Group; Technical program co-chair for multiple international conferences; Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Associate Editor of IEEE T-SIPN, and Senior Area Editor of IEEE TIP. Awards include NSF CAREER award, 1997 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award, etc.
Research Experience
- Joined the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1994, where he is currently a Professor. Has served as Associate Chair of EE-Systems and director of the Signal and Image Processing Institute at USC.
Education
- Received a Telecommunications Engineering degree from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1989; Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1994 (supported by a Fulbright scholarship).
Background
- Research interests: signal compression, representation, communication, and analysis; Specializes in image processing, video compression, and communications.
Miscellany
- His work at USC has been or is being funded by agencies such as NSF, NASA, DOE, and companies like HP, Samsung, LGE, Google, Chevron, or Texas Instruments.
