Robert M. Gray
Robert M. Gray | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Southern California |
Known for | Vector quantization |
Awards | IEEE Centennial Medal (1984) Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2007) Claude E. Shannon Award (2008) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert A. Scholtz Irwin M. Jacobs |
Doctoral students |
Robert M. Gray (born November 1, 1943[1]) is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and compression, particularly the development of vector quantization.
Awards
In 1980, Gray was elevated to the grade of
Gray was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for contributions to information theory and data compression.
He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
Early life
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Born in 1943 in San Diego, Gray grew up in Coronado, California. He was the third child in a family of five children.
Gray followed his two older brothers to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, obtaining his M.S. in 1966. Gray earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1969; his Ph.D. adviser was Robert A. Scholtz.
He began his career at the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory.
Books
Gray has written or co-authored a number of technical texts, including:
- Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices (1971, revised 2006)
- Probability, Random Processes and Ergodic Properties (1988, revised 2007)
- Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing (1986, revised 2007)
- Entropy and Information Theory (1991, revised 2007)
- Source Coding Theory (1990)
- Vector Quantization and Signal Compression (1992)
Gray is also an amateur historian and has collected together some historical letters from diplomats into books:
- Amy Heard: Letters from the Gilded Age (2005)
- Max&Max (2005)
Notable professional service
Gray is the Founding Editor of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of both that publication and the IEEE Trans. on Information Theory (1981–1983), and served on the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors (1974–1980, 1984–1987) and IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (1999–2001).
References
- ^ a b Gray, Robert M. "Short Bio". Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 1980 | IEEE Communications Society".
- IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
- IEEE. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
- IEEE. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
- IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- ^ "Society Award". IEEE Signal Processing Society. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
- ^ "Nomination of Robert M. Gray for the PAESMEM Award". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 21 July 2017.