CV

ONUR G. GULERYUZ

guleryuz@ieee.org

https://sites.google.com/site/onurgguleryuz/

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Education

PhD: Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, June 1997. 

Thesis title: Optimal Linear Processing for Image and Video Coding.

Research Assistant, 1992-1997. (Also Research Assistant at Princeton University, 1995-1997.)

MSc: Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 1992.

Graduate Fellow 1991-1992.

BSc: Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1991.

BSc: Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1991.

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Industry Experience

Software Engineer (Open Codecs Team, Advanced Research Team, and Perception Team): Google LLC., Mountain View, CA, 

February 2017 – present.

Principal Research Scientist & Project Manager: LG Electronics Mobile Research, USA, San Jose, CA, 

June 2013 – February 2017.

Principal Research Architect & Project Manager: Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, 

September 2011 – June 2013.

Principal Research Engineer & Project Manager: DoCoMo Communications Laboratories, USA, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, September 2004 – July 2011.

Senior Member of Technical Staff: Epson Research and Development, Epson Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, December 2000 – September 2004.

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Academic Experience

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering: NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NY,

August 1997 – July 2001 (previously known as Polytechnic University).

Visiting Research Assistant: Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University,

September 1995 – May 1997.

Research Assistant: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

August 1992 – August 1997.

Graduate Fellow: Department of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, 

September 1991 – June 1992.

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Awards and Honors

• Fellow of IEEE (2024) for contributions to nonlinear approximation and sparsity-based signal processing (“IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.”)

• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Best Paper Award, 2017.

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2007 (for the sequence:[5,6]). (“The Best Paper Award honors the author of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope, and appearing in one of the Society’s solely owned transactions, irrespective of the author’s age.”)

• DoCoMo Communications Laboratories President’s Award, 2005 and 2008.

• DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Research of the Year Award, 2005.

• Seiko-Epson Corporation President’s Award for Research and Development, 2002 – 2004.

• National Science Foundation, Career Award (CAREER-2000), 2000. (“NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research.”)

• The Science and Technical Research Council of Turkey Award, 1993.

• Yale University Fellowship, 1992.

• Graduated in the “High Honors” lists of the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bogazici University, 1991.

• 46th in Turkish National University Entrance Exam (among in excess of 600,000 candidates), 1987.

Runner-Up Paper Awards

•  Picture Coding Symposium Best Paper Award Finalist, 2022 (for the paper:[2].)

•  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Best Paper Award Runner-Up, 2016 (for the paper:[8].)

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Professional Experience

Formal Leadership Training:

• • Berkeley Executive Leadership Series, “High Impact Leadership: Communication Style,” University of California, Berkeley, Center for Executive Development, Haas School of Business, May 2014.

  • Berkeley Executive Leadership Series, “The Leaders Mindset: Shifting Intent into Action,” University of California, Berkeley, Center for Executive Development, Haas School of Business, May 2007.

Standards Body Involvement:

• • Primary Representative of LG Electronics USA in INCITS/L3 (US National Body for MPEG/JPEG). LG Electronics USA delegate for MPEG.

  • Primary Representative of DoCoMo USA Labs in INCITS/L3 (US National Body for MPEG/JPEG), 2005-2009. ITU accredited through NTT DoCoMo, Japan. DoCoMo USA Labs delegate for MPEG and NTT DoCoMo delegate for VCEG.

Industry Contributions:

• • Please refer to my full CV. The projects-page has some summary overviews. 

Computer Language and Operating System Experience:

• Extensive programming experience under Linux and Windows using C++, Python, Matlab.

•  Extensive ML implementation expertise with Tensorflow.

•  Back-end and cloud experience using Flume on Borg.

•  Google ”C++ Readability” reviewer, ”Python Readability” reviewer (40,000+ lines of google3 C++/ Python/Tensorflow code implementing novel, deployed technologies on CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs.)

•  Familiarity with Assembly, Fortran, and Java.

Leadership and Service:

• • Elected Leadership Positions:

    • Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC - Vice Chair 2016-2018, Chair 2018-2020, Past Chair 2020-2022).

    • Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC - Industry Representative 2010-2016).

    • Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC - Chair, Awards Subcommittee 2010-2014).

    • Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Industrial Relations Committee 2018-2020.

  • Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (May 2004-June 2008).

  • Panelist:

    • National Science Foundation, Information & Intelligent Systems, Robust Intelligence Program, 2007.

    • National Science Foundation, CAREER Program, 2005.

  • Keynotes / Invited Talks / Conference Organization / Area Chair of Major Conferences / Program Committees / Special Session Organization/ Session Chair: Numerous.

  • Technical Reviewer: Extensive experience as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and other funding agencies, IEEE and other journals on Image/Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Information Theory, Multimedia, etc.

Administered Internships:

Z. Deng - University of California at Santa Barbara (Google LLC, 2022), B. Li - University of California at Santa Barbara (LG Electronics, summer 2015 and 2016), H. Egilmez - University of Southern California (LG Electronics, summer 2015), S. Li - University of California at Santa Barbara (LG Electronics, summer 2014), E. Chou - Courant Institute, NYU (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2010), J. Zujovic - Northwestern University (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2008 and 2009), A. Saxena - University of California at Santa Barbara (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2007), O. Sezer - Georgia Tech (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2007), G. Hua - Rice University (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2006), A. Cunha - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2005).

Undergraduate/Graduate Teaching, NYU Tandon School of Engineering:

More than three years of teaching experience as the primary instructor at the undergraduate and graduate level. (Please see my full CV.)

Undergraduate/Graduate Advising, NYU Tandon School of Engineering and elsewhere:

Extensive experience advising undergraduate/graduate thesis and projects.  (Please see my full CV. )

Docent of Electrical and Electronics Engineering:

Awarded by Higher Education Council of Turkey, 2006.

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Academic Funding

• National Science Foundation, “CAREER: Models and Representations for Digital Images and Video,” (CAREER 2000), award total $300,000, October 2001 - October 2007.

• National Science Foundation, “Integrated Video Encoding and Networking,” jointly with Y. Wang, J. Liebeherr, and S. Panwar, award total $130,000, January 1998 - January 2001.

• NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering startup grant for video research, award total $100,000, August 1997 - January 2001.

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Journal Articles, Conference Articles, Patents.