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Dr. Emin Martinian completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. After a year and a half at the startup OPC Technologies, he joined the doctoral program at MIT in 1998, receiving the masters degree in 2000, and the doctoral degree in 2004. His masters research was in the area of multimedia authentication, and his doctoral thesis was in the area of dynamic information and constraints in source and channel coding. Since completing his doctorate he has been with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in Cambridge, MA.

Emin served as a TA in MIT's graduate class in Digital Signal Processing. In addition, he co-founded 6.454, the department's advanced graduate seminar in communications, control, and signal processing, and has co-organized this seminar for three terms. In summer terms, he worked at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, Analog Devices, MERL, and has also served as a consultant to various start-ups. His broader research interests include digital communications and signal processing, especially information theory, error control codes, cryptography and image/video compression and authentication. While at MIT he held an NSF Graduate Fellowship, and received the Capocelli Award of the 2004 Data Compression Conference for the best student-authored paper.