Allen Gersho is a professor emeritus at UCSB who made significant contributions in the area of signal compression and speech coding.

Gersho received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1960.[1] He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1963.[2]

From 1963 until 1980, he was a member of the technical staff in the research division of AT&T Bell Labs before joining UCSB as a professor in 1980. He took early retirement from UCSB in 1999 and was CEO of SignalCom, Inc from 1996 till 2000 when the company was sold to Microsoft.

Gersho co-authored a text book with Robert Gray on vector quantization that has become a standard reference for that topic.[1]

Awards

Gersho is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the theory of signal processing in communications,[3] and the recipient of several awards and honors and in particular he was awarded the 2007 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

References

  1. 1 2 "Allen Gersho". Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Mathematics Genealogy Project". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "IEEE Fellows 1982 | IEEE Communications Society".


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