Robert A Cohen

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Technical Staff
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007

Phone: 617 621 7503
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Robert Cohen joined the Multimedia group at MERL in 2007, after completing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Prior to that, he worked for 11 years at Philips Research Labs in NY performing research in the Video Communications Department.  At Philips, he performed research in areas related to HDTV, scalable video streaming, video surveillance, and rapid prototyping for VLSI video systems.  Before that, he obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer.  His current research interests are algorithms and architectures for video coding and communications, and video, image and signal processing.  He is currently researching video transcoding and next-generation video coding algorithms.