Jeffrey Bloom

Current

Director, Video Technologies at Dialogic

Past

Content Security Research Lab Manager at Thomson Consumer Electronics
Research Center Manager at Thomson Consumer Electronics
Technology Leader at Sarnoff Corp.

Research Engineer at NEC Research Institute

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Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
University of California, Davis
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Industry

Telecommunications

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Jeffrey Bloom’s Summary

Jeffrey Bloom has experience managing R&D teams to create solutions and IP that address business needs. His ability to communicate well with internal and external customers insures that the requirements are understood and that the right technologies are developed. Dr. Bloom is well-known for his expertise in the field of content security and is one of the authors of the primary text book in digital watermarking. He holds 7 patents with another 19 pending and has written numerous technical papers.

Jeffrey Bloom’s Specialties:

multimedia security, digital watermarking, fingerprinting, cryptography, digital rights management, perceptual modeling, HVS modeling, image and video compression, image and video processing and compression, machine learning, user modeling, adaptive systems

Jeffrey Bloom’s Experience

Director, Video Technologies

Dialogic

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Content Security Research Lab Manager

Thomson Consumer Electronics

(Public Company; TMS; Consumer Electronics industry)

July 2005 — April 2009 (3 years 10 months)

* Manage a group of researchers in Princeton, NJ investigating multimedia content security. Topics include Digital Watermarking, Digital Rights Management, Conditional Access, Secure Content Delivery, Anti-Piracy, Forensic Analysis, Perceptual Digest. Support business units with expertise and research for advanced product development. Provide consulting and education for Thomson customers.
* Lead a 12 person team developing new technologies for advertising. Typical program management duties included. Topics include data mining, machine learning, targeted advertising, video analytics, watermarking and fingerprinting for ad tracking.
Research Center Manager

Thomson Consumer Electronics

(Public Company; TMS; Consumer Electronics industry)

April 2008 — August 2008 (5 months)

I managed the Burbank Research Center with groups that explore problems in content security and signal, image, and video processing for the media and entertainment industry. Shortly after arriving, the company decided to consolidate the research teams with the Princeton research center.
Technology Leader

Sarnoff Corp.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2005 (4 years )
Research Engineer

NEC Research Institute

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 2001 (4 years )

Jeffrey Bloom’s Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership 2007 — 2009
University of California, Davis

PhD , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1992 — 1997

PhD research involved a study of various models of the Human Visual System, development of an image transform based on one of these models (the Derivative of Gaussian model from Young 1987), and application of this transform to image and video compression.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

MS , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1987 — 1990
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

BS , Electrical Engineering , 1983 — 1987

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Jeffrey Bloom’s Groups:

* IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, 2008-2012
* Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Information Security, 2006 -
* Associate Editor, Springer LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2006 -
* Technical Program Committee, SPIE Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents, 2003 -
* Technical Program Committee, International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, 2006 -