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Dr. Emin Martinian completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science (with a minor in physics) 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. Both dissertations were in the field of information theory with his S.M. research in multimedia authentication, and his doctoral thesis covering various problems related to distributed information processing and coding.

Emin served as a teaching assistant in MIT's graduate class in Digital Signal Processing. In addition, he co-founded 6.454 (sometimes listed as 6.962), the department's advanced graduate seminar in communications, control, and signal processing, and 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 such as OPC Technologies (acquired by Mentor Graphics) and PinPoint. His broader research interests include information theory, cryptography, signal processing, data prediction, and financial markets.

Among other awards and honors, Emin received a National Merit Scholarship, The UC Berkeley Regents Scholarship, a National Science Foundation Fellowship, Capocelli Award for Best Paper, second place for best Computer Science Ph.D. thesis, and over 10 US and international patents.

After completing his doctorate he joined Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in Cambridge, MA. Some of the projects he worked on at MERL include developing 3D video compression systems currently being explored by the MPEG international standards body and developing a method for secure biometric storage which was discussed in various peer-reviewed conferences and journals as well as the June 2006 issue of New Scientist magazine.