Gerald Friedland
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorInfo Links
Research Areas
Signal Processing (SP), Multimedia ComputingArtificial Intelligence (AI)
Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS)
Big Data
Privacy
Research Centers
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society - The Banatao Institute (CITRIS)Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Teaching Schedule
Fall 2020
CS 294-82. Experimental Design for Machine Learning on Multimedia Data, Fr 10:30AM - 11:59AM, Internet/OnlineSpring 2021
CS 88. Computational Structures in Data Science, MoFr 1:00PM - 1:59PM, Requested General AssignmentCS 399-49. Professional Preparation: Supervised Teaching of Computer Science
Biography
Dr. Gerald Friedland is now with Lawrence Livermore Lab and is also teaching as an adjunct professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department. Before that, he had been with the International Computer Science Institute for 10 years. His work focusses on large-scale video retrieval, geo-location and also privacy. He is the lead figure behind the Multimedia Commons initiative, a collection of 100M images and 1M videos for research and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in conferences, journals, and books. He also co-authored a new textbook on multimedia computing with Cambridge University Press. He is associate editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Multimedia Magazine and regularly reviews for IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing; IEEE Transaction on Multimedia; Springer's Machine Vision and Application; and other journals. He is the recipient of several research and industry recognitions, among them the European Academic Software Award and the Multimedia Entrepreneur Award by the German Federal Department of Economics. Dr. Friedland received his doctorate (summa cum laude) and master's degree in computer science from Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.Education
2006, Ph.D., Computer Science, Freie Universitat Berlin2002, MSc, Computer Science, Freie Universitat Berlin
Selected Publications
B. Thomee, D. Shamma, G. Friedland, B. Elizalde, K. Ni, D. Poland, and D. Borth, "YFCC100M: The New Data in Multimedia Research," Communications of the ACM (CACM), vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 64-73, Feb. 2016.J. Choi and G. Friedland, Eds., Multimodal Location Estimation of Videos and Images, Springer, 2014.
G. Friedland and R. Jain, Introduction to Multimedia Computing, Cambridge University Press, 2014.