Prof. Sheila Hemami

Speaker Biography:

• Sheila S. Hemami received the B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1990 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. During her last year at Stanford, she was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo, Alto, California. Upon completing her Ph.D., she joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering department at Cornell where she currently directs the Visual Communications Lab. She has held various visiting positions, most recently at the University of Nantes, France and at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2008-10), a Member of the Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (2009-11), and a Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (2010-11). She chaired the IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (2006-7), and has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. In 1997, Hemami received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She held the Kodak Term Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University from 1996-1999. In 2000 she received the Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award (a national award), and she has won numerous teaching awards at Cornell. She was a finalist for the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer in 2003. In 2005 she received the Alice H. Cook and Constance E. Cook Award at Cornell University for her leadership of the Women in Science and Engineering committee. Hemami is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi.