Biography:Wim Sweldens

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Wim Sweldens
Sweldens speaking at the World Economic Forum in 2012
EducationKU Leuven,
Belgium
OccupationScientist, technology innovator, business executive
EmployerKiswe
Known forWavelets, mobile networks, data compression, interactive streaming, Artificial Intelligence Quotient (AIQ)

Wim Sweldens is a Belgian American business leader, scientist, and inventor known for innovations in communications, signal processing, and streaming technology. He invented the wavelet lifting scheme, used in the JPEG 2000 image compression standard.[1] He led development of the lightRadio cell tower technology at Alcatel-Lucent. Sweldens is the co-founder of Kiswe Mobile. He received the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1997 and was including in the MIT TR35 list in 1999.[2][3] He is an Honorary Professor at KU Leuven.

Education

He attended Aangenomen College in Sint-Truiden for secondary education. Sweldens completed bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering and computer science at KU Leuven in 1990 and a PhD in computer science and applied mathematics at KU Leuven in 1994.[4][5]

Career

Sweldens worked as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of South Carolina from 1994 to 1995.[5][6] He invented the wavelet lifting scheme in 1995, an algorithm used both in the JPEG 2000 image compression standard, as well as for compressing 3D polygonal meshes.[7][1][8][9]

He worked at Bell Labs from 1995 to 2009 and later served as President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Wireless Division from 2009 to 2012.[10] At Alcatel-Lucent, he led development of a cell tower technology called lightRadio, which reduced the size of transmission equipment.[11][12]

In 2013 Sweldens co-founded Kiswe Mobile with Jeong Kim and Jimmy Lynn. Kiswe developed interactive livestreaming technology for live events, including multiview streams and audience interaction features.[13] The company worked with Big Hit Entertainment on BTS online events and produced the virtual Tour of Flanders during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns.[14][15][16][17]

Sweldens holds 28 US patents.[18] He was entrepreneur in residence at Columbia University from 2013 to 2017.[5] He is a fellow of the IEEE, member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmys). He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Leuven.[3]

Awards and honours

  • Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (1997).[3]
  • MIT TR35 (1999).[2]
  • KU Leuven Honorary Professor (2015).[3]
  • Global Telecoms Business "Power 100” list (2009).[19]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens (May 1995). "Geek Page - Wavelet Image Compression: Beating the bandwidth bottleneck.". Wired. https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.05/geek.html. Retrieved 2012-01-25. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Innovator Under 35: Wim Sweldens, 32 - MIT Technology Review". http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=49. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Moler, Cleve (27 June 1997). "Announcement of Fox Prize Winners". https://netlib.org/na-digest-html/97/v97n26.html. 
  4. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/wimsweldens
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Facultaire ereprofessor 2015" (in nl). https://eng.kuleuven.be/nieuws-en-agenda/evenementen/awards/ereprofessor/honorary-professor-2015. 
  6. ↑ "TR100 Profile: Wim Sweldens". https://nalag.cs.kuleuven.be/news/wimsw.html. 
  7. ↑ LEE DYE (September 11, 2000). "A Leap for High-Speed Transmission: Data: Latest technology will lessen image process time. 3-D capacity could prove boon for industries.". Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-11-fi-18980-story.html. 
  8. ↑ Sweldens, Wim (1996-04-01). "The Lifting Scheme: A Custom-Design Construction of Biorthogonal Wavelets". Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis 3 (2): 186–200. doi:10.1006/acha.1996.0015. ISSN 1063-5203. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1063520396900159. 
  9. ↑ Kumar, Abhishek; Singh, Kamred; Devadoss, Visvam; Kant, Tapan; Khader, Abdul; Tameem, Abdullah; Khathami, Mohammed; Khan, Muhammad et al. (2021). "Robust Watermarking Scheme for NIfTI Medical Images" (in en). Computers, Materials & Continua 71 (2): 3107–3125. doi:10.32604/cmc.2022.022817. ISSN 1546-2218. https://www.techscience.com/cmc/v71n2/45844. 
  10. ↑ "Towerless service" (in en). 2011-02-15. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/feb/15/towerless-service/. 
  11. ↑ Nick Wood (7 February 2011). "Alcatel-Lucent signals 'end of base station'". Total Telecom. http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=1&ID=462194. Retrieved 2012-01-25. 
  12. ↑ Charles Arthur (7 February 2011). "Tiny device could transform mobile communications, says its creator". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/feb/07/mobile-communications. Retrieved 2012-01-25. 
  13. ↑ "Reverse streaming: the fan experience of tomorrow - Wim Sweldens". June 9, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOxsOEn6h8Y. 
  14. ↑ Knowles, Ed (25 May 2022). "Can virtual cycling ever match up to the great outdoors?". https://olympics.com/en/news/virtual-cycling-greg-van-avermaet. 
  15. ↑ "2020 Virtual Tour of Flanders". https://www.rideshimano.com/global/en/2020-VIRTUAL-TOUR-OF-FLANDERS/. 
  16. ↑ Vermont, W. (22 March 2022). "Virtual Tour of Flanders". SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal 131 (2): 17–22. doi:10.5594/JMI.2022.3143607. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9732504. 
  17. ↑ "Tour of Flanders goes virtual". April 3, 2020. https://sports.nbcsports.com/2020/04/03/tour-of-flanders-goes-virtual/. 
  18. ↑ "United States Patent and Trademark Office". https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=sweldens&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT. 
  19. ↑ "Wim Sweldens | Columbia | Technology Ventures". https://techventures.columbia.edu/directory/wim-sweldens. 



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