Biography
Dr. Evgeniy Upenik is a research scientist at the Multimedia Signal Processing Group, EPFL. His field of interest covers a wide area ranging from image quality and compression to immersive communication and virtual reality, as well as deep learning and generative AI. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Evgeniy has been actively involved in standardization for many years where he co-chaired JPEG AI Learning-Based Image Coding System and chaired Image Quality Assessment activities within ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1. Earlier in his career, Evgeniy was a DSP software engineer specializing in image and video compression.