Robert M. Gray Robert M. Gray (2008) Born| (1943-11-01) November 1, 1943 (age 78) San Diego, California Nationality| American Alma mater| University of Southern California Known for| Vector quantization Awards| IEEE Centennial Medal (1984) Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2007) Claude E. Shannon Award (2008) Scientific career Fields| Electrical engineering Institutions| Stanford University Doctoral advisor| Robert A. Scholtz Irwin M. Jacobs Doctoral students| Michelle Effros Mari Ostendorf Robert M. Gray (born November 1, 1943[1]) is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and compression, particularly the development of vector quantization. ## Contents * 1 Awards * 2 Early life * 3 Books * 4 Notable professional service * 5 References * 6 External links ## Awards[edit] Gray received the 2008 Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, for his fundamental contributions to information theory, particularly in the area of quantization theory.[2] He was also the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal,[3][4] the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society,[5] the 1993 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award,[6] and the 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal.[1] Gray received the 2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from the National Science Foundation.[7] In 2020 he received both, The Okawa Prize for his seminal research in information coding theory and data compression, and enormous contributions to the promotion of diversity in engineering education, and IEEE Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding leadership in, and providing long standing, exceptional service, to the Information Theory community. Gray was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for contributions to information theory and data compression. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. ## Early life[edit] This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. Find sources: "Robert M. Gray" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) | Born in 1943 in San Diego, Gray grew up in Coronado, California. He was the third child in a family of five children. Gray followed his two older brothers to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, obtaining his M.S. in 1966. Gray earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1969; his Ph.D. adviser was Robert A. Scholtz. He began his career at the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory. ## Books[edit] Gray has written or co-authored a number of technical texts, including: * Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices (1971, revised 2006) * Probability, Random Processes and Ergodic Properties (1988, revised 2007) * Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing (1986, revised 2007) * Entropy and Information Theory (1991, revised 2007) * Source Coding Theory (1990) * Vector Quantization and Signal Compression (1992) Gray is also an amateur historian and has collected together some historical letters from diplomats into books: * Amy Heard: Letters from the Gilded Age (2005) * Max&Max (2005) ## Notable professional service[edit] Gray is the Founding Editor of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of both that publication and the IEEE Trans. on Information Theory (1981–1983), and served on the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors (1974–1980, 1984–1987) and IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (1999–2001). ## References[edit] 1. ^ a b Gray, Robert M. "Short Bio". Retrieved 5 March 2013. 2. ^ "Claude E. Shannon Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved February 28, 2011. 3. ^ "IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved February 28, 2011. 4. ^ "IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Recipients - 2008 - Robert M. Gray". IEEE. Retrieved February 28, 2011. 5. ^ "Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved July 14, 2011. 6. ^ "Society Award". IEEE Signal Processing Society. Retrieved February 28, 2011. 7. ^ "Nomination of Robert M. Gray for the PAESMEM Award". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 21 July 2017. ## External links[edit] * Gray's webpage * IEEE History Center Interview with Gray (1998) * Robert M. Gray at the Mathematics Genealogy Project * v * t * e Claude E. Shannon Award 1972–1989| * 1972 Claude E. Shannon * 1973 * 1974 David S. Slepian * 1975 * 1976 Robert M. Fano * 1977 Peter Elias * 1978 Mark Semenovich Pinsker * 1979 Jacob Wolfowitz * 1980 * 1981 W. Wesley Peterson * 1982 Irving S. Reed * 1983 Robert G. Gallager * 1984 * 1985 Solomon W. Golomb * 1986 William Lucas Root * 1987 * 1988 James Massey * 1989 1990–1999| * 1990 Thomas M. Cover * 1991 Andrew Viterbi * 1992 * 1993 Elwyn Berlekamp * 1994 Aaron D. Wyner * 1995 George David Forney * 1996 Imre Csiszár * 1997 Jacob Ziv * 1998 Neil Sloane * 1999 Tadao Kasami 2000–2009| * 2000 Thomas Kailath * 2001 Jack Keil Wolf * 2002 Toby Berger * 2003 Lloyd R. Welch * 2004 Robert McEliece * 2005 Richard Blahut * 2006 Rudolf Ahlswede * 2007 Sergio Verdú * 2008 Robert M. 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