Avideh Zakhor

Avideh Zakhor
Avideh Zakhor
آویده زاخور
Born	1964 (age 61–62); Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	Caltech (BS); MIT (SM, PhD);
Awards	Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990); IEEE Fellow (2001); Okawa Prize (2004); Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering, signal processing, computer vision
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley (1988–present)
Thesis	Reconstruction of multidimensional signals from multiple level threshold crossings (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Alan V. Oppenheim
Website	www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/zakhor.html

Avideh Zakhor (Persian: آویده زاخور, born 1964) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she formerly held the Qualcomm Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, elected in 2001 "for contributions to image and video compression". Her research involves signal processing, video processing including video coding, decoding, and streaming, computer vision, and urban-scale 3D modeling. Zakhor is also an entrepreneur whose startups have been acquired by Mentor Graphics, Google, and a European construction supply company.