Antonio Ortega
Antonio Ortega received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain in 1989 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY in 1994, where he was supported by a Fulbright scholarship.
In 1994 he joined the Electrical Engineering-Systems department at the University of Southern California, where he is currently a Professor. He has also held visiting positions at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, UPM, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Tokyo Institute of Technology.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE. His research interests are in the areas of multimedia compression and communications. His recent work is focusing on distributed compression, multiview coding, error tolerant compression, wavelet-based signal analysis and information representation in wireless sensor networks.
His research has been funded by various agencies such as NSF, DOE and NASA, as well as by numerous companies, including HP, Texas Instruments, Chevron and Thomson. He has supervised or is supervising the work of more than 30 PhD students and has received several paper awards. He is the author or co-author of over 200 publications in international journals and conferences and he holds two US patents, with several others pending.
In addition he has been a consultant to a number of companies, including several start-up companies, in the multimedia technology industry.
Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora is currently Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems at IESE Business School. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and his M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He holds also a PDG from IESE.
Javier Zamora was during eight years the General Manager of eNeo Labs, company devoted to products and services for the Digital Home. His previous professional experience includes four years as Director of Product Development at Xbind in New York, a pioneer company in video transmission over data networks, and five years doing research and implementing one of the first video-on-demand systems in the US at the Center for Telecommunications Research and the Image and Advanced Television Laboratory of Columbia University.
His area of expertise is Multimedia Innovation and he served in the International Standard Organization (ISO) as editor of the MPEG-4 video standard. Javier Zamora is author of five publications in international journals and fifteen technical contributions to standard bodies. He is the author of two international patents on Digital Home architecture and services. From 2005 to 2009, he designed and taught the class "Topics in New Technologies and Business" in the international Master of Science in Information and Communication Technologies as an invited professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Since 2008, he is the President of "la Caixa" Fellowship Association.
