Short BiographyTsachy Weissman is the Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford, where he has been since 2003, researching and teaching the science of information, with applications spanning genomics, neuroscience, and technology. He has been serving on editorial boards for scientific journals, technical advisory boards in industry, and as founding director of the Stanford Compression Forum. His recent projects include the SHTEM science and humanities summer internship program for high schoolers, Stagecast, a low-latency video platform allowing actors and musicians to perform together in real-time while geographically distributed, and the Starling Lab for authentication of digital content. An IEEE Fellow, he has received multiple awards for his research and teaching, including best paper awards from the IEEE Information Theory and Communications societies, while his students received best student-authored paper awards at the top conferences of their areas of scholarship. His students have become faculty at top institutions, industry leaders, and serial entrepreneurs. He has played key roles in the formation of companies and the development of technology powering Guardant Health's blood tests for early detection of cancer, Amazon's storage and machine learning, Google's search, HP's printing, Ford's streaming of self-driving footage, Siemens' streaming of sensor data, Apple's image and video compression, and Yahoo's bidding platform, among others. His favorite gig to date was advising the HBO show “Silicon Valley”. |