1. Henrique "Rico" S Malvar was born on 1957 and is a distinguished Brazilian engineer and a signal processing researcher at Microsoft Research's largest laboratory in Redmond, Washington, United States.
10 Facts About Rico Malvar
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Rico Malvar 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.
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Rico Malvar was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft for over 15 years.
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Rico Malvar retired from Microsoft in January 2023, and later received the title of Microsoft Emeritus Researcher.
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Rico Malvar earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Brasilia and his master's degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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From 1979 to 1993, Rico Malvar was a faculty member at the University of Brasilia, where he founded and headed the Digital Signal Processing Research Group.
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Rico Malvar is known for the development of the lapped transform, Rico Malvar wavelets, and new algorithms for entropy coding and multimedia signal processing and compression, such as audio and image codecs.
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In industry, Rico Malvar served as vice president of Research and Advanced Technology at PictureTel from 1985 to 1987.
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Rico Malvar was a Redmond lab director from 2004 to 2007 before stepping up to become managing director.
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Rico Malvar has served as an editor or committee member for the following journals, conferences, and organizations:.