About
Avideh Zakhor, FounderAvideh Zakhor received her B.S. degree from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and her S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. All inelectrical engineering, in 1983, 1985, and 1987 respectively. In 1988, she joined the Faculty at U.C. Berkeley is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Her research interests are in the general area of image and video processing, multimedia communication, and 3D modeling. In 1996, Prof. Zakhor, co-founded Signamask, a software company specializing in Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) solutions for the semiconductor industry. Signamask was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1998. In 2000, Prof. Zakhor co-founded Truvideo, a software company enabling video streaming on mobile devices and cell phones. Prof. Zakhor was a General Motors scholar from 1982 to 1983, was a Hertz fellow from 1984 to 1988, received the Presidential Young Investigators (PYI) award from President George Bush, and Office of Naval Research (ONR) young investigator award in 1992. From 1998 to 2001, she was an elected member of IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors. In 2001, she was elected as IEEE fellow. Advisory Board includes senior executives from Sun Microsystems, Beyond.Com and FreeVerse (Asia). |
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TruVideo’s mobile multimedia technology was developed by the leading experts in video processing at the University of California at Berkeley. Led by Dr. Avideh Zakhor, a recognized expert in signal processing technology, TruVideo’s patented video technology and standards-based server products were designed to produce high frame-rate video with a small client footprint over narrowband networks. Founded in 2000, TruVideo has launched mobile video services on Verizon, Sprint and AllTel in the US, Chungwa in Taiwan and has powered video applications from content providers such as Disney, American Greetings, BigDigit and IMNTV, handset makers DG Telecom (China) and British platform provider MDS.