Biography

Francesc Aulí-Llinàs received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2002 and 2006, respectively. From 2002 to 2015 he was funded with fellowships from the Spanish and Catalan governments, including a Ramón y Cajal grant. During this time, he carried out two postdoctoral research stages of one year each with professors David Taubman, at the University of New South Wales, and Michael Marcellin, at the University of Arizona. From 2016 to present, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Information and Communications Engineering in the UAB. He developed BOI codec, a JPEG2000 implementation mostly employed in research. He received a distinguished R-Letter given by the IEEE Communications Society for a paper co-authored with Michael Marcellin. He has participated and supervised various projects, is reviewer for magazines and symposiums, and has guided some Ph.D. students. His research interests lie in the area of image and video coding, computing, and transmission.