John Apostolopoulos

Director, Multimedia Communications & Networking Lab
Palo Alto

Biography

John Apostolopoulos is a Distinguished Technologist and the Director of the Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab (MCNL) at HP Labs.  The goals of MCNL are (1) to create compelling networked media experiences that fundamentally change how people communicate, collaborate, socialize and entertain, and (2) to create the intelligent infrastructure which provides predictable, high-quality and power-efficient networking to support current and future applications.

His primary research interests include improving the reliability, fidelity, scalability and security of multimedia communications over wired and wireless packet networks. His work on transcoding in the middle of a network while preserving end-to-end security (secure transcoding) has recently been adopted by the JPEG-2000 Security (JPSEC) standard.

Apostolopoulos received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. In graduate school, he worked on the U.S. Digital TV standard and received an Emmy Award Certificate for his contributions. 

Apostolopoulos was named “one of the world’s top 100 young (under 35) innovators in science and technology” (TR100) by MIT Technology Review in 2003, and has received a number of best paper awards. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008.

He also teaches and conducts joint research at Stanford University, where he is a Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and he is a frequent visiting lecturer in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

 

Research interests

Primary research interests include improving the reliability, fidelity, scalability and security of multimedia communications over wired and wireless packet networks.  Architecture design for multimedia delivery systems, including mobile streaming media content delivery networks (MSM-CDNs) and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Multimedia signal processing, with an emphasis on video, and multimedia security.

Publications

He has published over 90 technical papers, with several best papers awards.

Awards

IEEE Fellow

For contributions to the principles and practice of video communications and secure media streaming. (2008)

MIT Technology Review 100

The world's top 100 under-35 innovators in science and technology (2003)

Technical Emmy Certificate

For contributions to the U.S. Digital TV standard

Professional Activities

  • Chair, IEEE Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) technical committee
  • Member, IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) technical committee
  • Editorial board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
  • Visiting lecturer at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Technical co-chair of IEEE ICIP 2007, and general co-chair of VCIP 2006
  • Significant contributions to JPEG-2000 Security (JPSEC) standard, and HP’s primary representative to MPEG.

Teaching

Patents

Over 30 granted patents.