Rico Malvar
Henrique S. Malvar | |
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Rico Malvar at an IEEE Conference in 2011 | |
| Born | 1957 |
| Alma mater | MIT (PhD) Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (MS) University of Brasília |
| Known for | Lapped transform, Windows Media Audio codec, JPEG XR image codec |
| Awards | Member of the US National Academy of Engineering - 2012, Fellow of the IEEE - 1997 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Signal processing, Data compression, Harmonic analysis |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research, PictureTel |
| Doctoral advisor | David H. Staelin |
| Website | aka |
Henrique "Rico" S. Malvar (born 1957) is a distinguished Brazilian engineer and a signal processing researcher at Microsoft Research's largest laboratory in Redmond, Washington, United States. He was the managing director of the lab following the departure of long-time Managing Director Dan Ling in 2007, when he oversaw about 350 researchers. He was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft for over 15 years. He retired from Microsoft in January 2023, and later received the title of Microsoft Emeritus Researcher.
Rico is also an Affiliate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington.