Gerald Friedland

Dr. Gerald Friedland is a Principal Scientist at AWS and adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Friedland has published about 200 scientific publications, including two books and is a part-time Lecturer at the EECS department of the University of California. Berkeley. 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. He also led the team that won the ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge in 2009. 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.

Gerald is also an avid software and hardware developer and is known for open-source contributions, such as SIOX (Simple Interactive Object Extraction), which has become the open-source standard algorithm for interactive image cut and paste used in applications like GIMP or Inkscape.