Dr. Michael Isnardi is a senior principal research scientist in SRI International’s Center for Vision Technologies, where he has worked since 1986. His early work included development of the DIRECTV system and Sarnoff Corporation’s Compliance Bitstreams product, which received a technical Emmy® award in 1999. Recent work includes development of congestion management, salience-based compression, digital holography algorithms, and compressed sensing technologies for imaging and video applications.

Dr. Isnardi received the David Sarnoff Award and the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Third Millennium Medal. His professional memberships include SMPTE and IEEE. He serves on the Technical Program Committee for the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. He has given numerous papers and tutorials on digital television at industry events.