Dinei Florencio received the B.S. and M.S. from University of Brasília (Brazil), and the Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, all in Electrical Engineering. He is a researcher in the signal processing group at Microsoft Research since 1999. From 1996 to 1999, he was a member of the research staff at the David Sarnoff Research Center. He was also a co-op student with AT&T Human Interface Lab (now part of NCR) from 1994 to 1996, and a Summer intern at the (now defunct) Interval Research in 1994. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and reviewer for the IEEE transactions on Speech, on Signal Processing, on image Processing, and for the IEEE signal processing letters. He has published over 25 referred papers, and 17 granted US patents (with  another 13 currently pending), and received the 1998 Sarnoff Achievement Award.