Mohammed Ghanbari ( fa, محمد قنبری) is an emeritus professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering focused in the areas of Video Networking at the

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. He graduated from Aryamehr University of Technology in

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, with a BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1970, an MSc in

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, and a PhD in

electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

from the

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in 1976 and 1979 respectively. After ten years of work in

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...

and

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broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...

, he started his academic career in 1986 as a Research Fellow working on

video coding A video coding format (or sometimes video compression format) is a content representation format for storage or transmission of digital video content (such as in a data file or bitstream). It typically uses a standardized video compression algori ...

for Packet Networks. He was then appointed as a Lecturer at the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at Essex in 1988 and promoted to senior lecturer then reader in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He was appointed a personal chair in 1996. He is best known for his pioneering work on two-layer video coding for ATM networks (which earned him IEEE Fellowship in 2001), now is known as SNR scalability in the standard video codecs. He has registered for eleven international patents on various aspects of video networking. Mohammed was the co-recipient of A.H. Reeves prize for the best paper published in the 1995 proceedings of IEE in the theme of digital coding. He is the co-author of Principles of Performance Engineering, book published by IEE press in 1997, the author of Video coding: an introduction to standard

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s, book also published by IEE press in 1999, which received the year 2000 best book award by IEE, and the author of Standard Codecs: Image Compression to Advanced Video coding book also published by IEE press in 2003. He has been an organizing member of several international conferences and workshops. He was the general chair of the 1997 international workshop on Packet Video and Guest Editor to 1997 IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems for Video Technology, Special issue on Multimedia technology and applications. He has been an Associate Editor to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE-T-MM) and represented University of Essex as one of the six academic partners in the

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in Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IEE and Charted Engineer (CEng).

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Iranian electrical engineers Fellow Members of the IEEE Alumni of the University of Essex Academics of the University of Essex Sharif University of Technology alumni Living people Iranian emigrants to the United Kingdom Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-engineer-stub