Biography
Dr. Toby Berger recently joined the University of Virginia. From
1968 to 2005, he served on the Cornell faculty where he was Irwin and
Joan Jacobs Professor of Engineering. At Cornell, Dr. Berger was
associated with the Center for Applied Mathematics and the graduate
Field of Statistics, and was the director of the DISCOVER Lab, which he
founded in 1990. He has supervised roughly 40 MS/PhD students, 100 MEng
project students and dozens of undergraduate researchers. From 1962 to
1968, he was a Senior Scientist at Raytheon. He has served as a
consultant to Raytheon, IBM, Schlumberger, Teknekron Communication
Systems, and AT&T Bell Labs.
His research interests include information theory, communications,
networking, signal processing, voice and video compression,
infobiology, and quantum information theory. He has
authored/co-authored several books: Rate Distortion Theory, Digital Compression for Multimedia, and Information Measures for Discrete Random Fields.
He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1976, a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellow in 1980, a Fellow of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 1981, and a Fellow of the Fulbright Foundation. He received the Frederick E. Terman Award
from the American Society for Engineering Education in 1982. He is a
fellow of the IEEE and a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Society for Engineering Education,
Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi, a member of the Governing Board and a past
president of the IEEE Information Theory Group, and a past
editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. In
2002, he received the Shannon Award, the IEEE Information Theory Society's highest honor. In 2006, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Yale
University, New Haven, CT, in 1962 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
applied mathematics from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1964 and
1966, respectively.
