Avideh Zakhor
Avideh Zakhor (* 1964 in Iran ) is an Iranian-American computer scientist . Your 3D modeling is at the core of Google Earth .
Life
Zakhor went to school in Wales on a grant from the Iranian government. After the overthrow of the Shah, her family fled to Los Angeles. Zakhor studied electrical engineering at CalTech . After her B.Sc. In 1983, as the best of her year, she switched to graduate studies at MIT , where she did a master's in 1985 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science. She has been teaching at UC Berkeley since 1988 , initially as Assistant Professor , from 1994 as Associate Professor and since 1998 as Full Professor.
She has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 2002 .
Zakhor is married and has one grown son.
Prizes and awards
- General Motors Scholarship, 1982-3
- Henry Ford Engineering Award, 1983
- Hertz Fellowship, 1984–1988
- Analog Devices Junior Faculty Development Award 1990–1995
- IBM Junior Faculty Development Award 1990–1991
- Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award, 1990
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1992
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Transactions Young Paper Award (with S. Hein) 1997
- IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Video Technology Transactions Best Paper Award (with D. Taubman), 1997
- IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Video Technology Transactions Best Paper Award (with R. Neff), 1999
- International Conference on Image Processing best paper award (with R. Neff). 1999
- Packet Video Workshop best paper award (with T. Ngyuen), 2002.
- 2004 Okawa Foundation Prize.
- Best paper award at the IEEE Workshop 2007
Web links
- https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/zakhor.html
- Avideh Zakhor: the brains behind Google Earth and Street View
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zakhor, Avideh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian-American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iran |