Alan Bovik#
| Membership Number: | 6454 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/alan-bovik |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6067-710X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1984 - 1988 Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
- 1988 - 1994 Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
- 1992 Visiting Professor, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1994 - present Full Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2003 - 2005 Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2005 - 2014 Keys and Joan Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2014 - present Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Fields of Scholarship
- Image quality
- Video compression
- Streaming video
- Video quality
- Digital video
- Social media
- Visual neuroscience
- Visual perception
- Digital image processing
Honours and Awards
- December 1995 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “For Contributions to Nonlinear Image Processing,”
- 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Claude Shannon / Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award
- November 2006 Fellow of the Optical Society of America, “For fundamental research contributions to and technical leadership in digital image and video processing”
- 2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society Sustained Impact Paper Award
- 2008 IEEE Signal Processing Society Karl Friedrich Gauss Education Award
- Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
- 2011 IS&T / SPIE Imaging Scientist of the Year Award
- 2012 SPIE Technology Achievement Award
- 2013 Norbert Wiener Society Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 2014 Honorary Member Award of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology
- October 2015 Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- 2017 Edwin H. Land Medal from The Optical Society (Optica)
- 2019 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing (IEEE Technical Field Award)
- 2019 Progress Medal from The Royal Photographic Society
- 2019 Named Honorary Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society
- 2019 ICIP Pioneer Award (2019)
- October 2021 Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the “Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization”
- 2022 IAMB BaM Award
- 2022 IEEE Edison Medal
- February 2022 Elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering
