Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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ompression for decades. Dr. Petajan also has been in the forefront of the delivery of live video and streaming animation to mobile devices and has been instrumental in applying artificial intelligence to improve the quality of mobile digital entertainment.
Most recently, Dr. Petajan was the CTO for VectorMAX Corporation, an innovator in the
delivery of live and synthetic video to mobile handset devices. Dr. Petajan also founded face2face animation in 2000 as a Lucent Technologies venture.
Dr. Petajan spent the first sixteen years of his career as a Bell Labs researcher and supervisor. His developments in the areas of facial motion capture, high-definition video coding, and interactive graphics systems are widely recognized.
Eric received a PhD in electrical engineering and an MS in physics from the University of Illinois, where he created the first automatic lip-reading system.
