Mr. Dennis Moellman
Mr. Moellman is an emeritus member of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Office (IARPA). In his IARPA role he was the Program Manager for the Video Analysis and Content Extraction (VACE) program where he led seminal research in computer vision and machine learning, primarily addressing Intelligence Community and DoD objectives, applications, and users. His work with VACE gained him international recognition in video research circles.
Before IARPA, Mr. Moellman was a Senior Technical Advisor at Defense Intelligence Agency, serving as principal planner, proponent and architect for transitioning video technology from the laboratory to an operational environment. Prior to that he was a Senior Technical Advisor for SRI International where he performed R&D, technical management and business development for DoD/IC (Intelligence Community) clients. While at SRI, Mr. Moellman was co-founder and Deputy Program Manager of the Rosettex Technology and Ventures Group that won the National Technology Alliance initiative.
Mr. Moellman's extensive government service included roles as technical adviser to Assistant Secretary-level officeholders, and culminated as a Director, Research and Technology for the Central Imagery Office (CIO), where he formed and chaired the Imagery Research and Development Council to orchestrate and guide U.S Government imagery and imagery-related R&D.
Mr. Moellman holds a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. in Engineering. Early in his career he was a teaching and research assistant at the University of Illinois and an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University. He is a member of the Washington DC Academy of Science, the ASPRS, the SPIE and the IEEE.
Dr. Ramesh Jain
Dr. Ramesh Jain is a world-renowned pioneer and active researcher in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision and intelligent systems. He is also an educator, having taught at several important U.S. universities, and is currently the first Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. While professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual computing labs. Prior to coming to UC Irvine from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Ramesh founded and directed the Experiential Systems Group. He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and Machine Vision and Applications journal and serves on the editorial boards of several magazines in multimedia, business and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 250 research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. Among his co-authored and co-edited books include Machine Vision, a textbook used at several universities.
Ramesh has been named a fellow by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
He is the founder of three companies which he managed in their initial stages, then turned over to professional management. Most recently, he was the co-founder of PRAJA, Inc. located in San Diego, which was acquired by TIBCO Software, Inc. PRAJA was the leading provider of infrastructure software technology for development of event-based information management. Prior to PRAJA, he was the founding CEO and Chairman of Virage (NASD: VRGE), a San Mateo-based company developing systems for media management solutions and visual information management. He was also the Founder and Chairman of ImageWare Inc., which was acquired by SDRC. ImageWare provided solutions for surface modeling, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, and inspection. In 1999, he was a finalist for the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Dr. Gerald Friedland
Dr. Gerald Friedland is an active researcher in intelligent multimedia technology. Currently, Gerald is a Principal Investigator at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), an independent non-profit laboratory closely affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he is leading the speaker diarization research. He is also a site-coordinator in the EU-funded project AMIDA and the Swiss-funded IM2 project, which both explore multimodal meeting analysis.Having a background in both computer vision and speech processing, one of Gerald's main interests are content analysis approaches that combine different streams of sensor output synergistically. He believes that content extraction problems can be solved much better when tackled interdisciplinary.
Gerald has published over 70 articles in conferences, journals, and books. He is the recipient of several research and industry recognitions, among them the European Academic Software Award and the Multimedia Entrepreneur Award by the German federal department of economics. He is known for having influenced various
open-source applications, such as GIMP where he has contributed the automatic foreground selection tool. He is also a Google Summer of Code Mentor 2009.
Gerald has served as program co-chair for the IEEE Symposium on Multimedia 2008 and 2009. He co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, for which he received an IEEE CS Distiguished Service Award, and the new Summer School of Semantic Computing at UC Berkeley. He is in the program committees of ACM Multimedia and IARIA MMedia.
Gerald received his doctorate "summa cum laude" and masters degree in computer science from Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany in 2002 and 2006 respectively.
Philippe Ciampossin
Philippe Ciampossin leads the Chief Technologist Office for the Information Management business unit of HP Software. As the CTO, he is driving HP IM’s next generation efforts, helping identify organic and inorganic opportunities for innovation, and delivering an overarching IM technology strategy in close cooperation with the engineering team and broader CTO offices of HP. His current portfolio spans a broad range of solutions composed of data protection, archiving, record management and EDRM.
Philippe joined HP as part of the PERSIST Technologies acquisition, a leading provider in grid storage and archiving solutions technologies, where he was the VP of R&D as well as a co-founder. After the acquisition Philippe performed as the senior director in IM R&D managing large development teams worldwide and building a portfolio of products focused on compliance archiving.
Prior to that, he held senior R&D management positions at Zantaz and Kodak Health Imaging. During his time at Dassault Systemes, a leading provider in CAD/CAM he also taught C++ and Object Oriented design in an engineering school (EPF) in Paris, France.
Philippe Graduated from EPITA with a degree in artificial intelligence.