JEREMY S. DE BONET : RESUME
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Human Capital Fund,
Boston, Ma and Seattle, Wa
Participate in trade and risk management decisions of
fundamentally-oriented fund. Track trusted analyst
reporting in multiple sectors. Development of trade tracking,
risk management and data mining tools. Primary strategies
include outright long and short positions, spreads,
delta-neutral volatility, of equities, FX, futures, stock and
futures options.
2011- Advisor,
Andover, Ma
Stealth mode startup
2009-2011 Research Investigator,
Boston, Ma
Development of highly parallel system for the analysis
of MRI imagery. Extension techniques developed by NASA for
simple 2D image manipulation to complex warping, analysis and
visualization of multidimensional data.
2010-2011 Advisor,
Philadelphia, PA
Providing business, technology, software architecture and intellectual property strategy advice to a stealth startup in the interactive television space.
2010-2011 Business and Technology Advisor, Interim Chief Technology Officer,
Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA
Lead launch of groundbreaking mobile application for iPhone
and iPod touch that jumped to #7 top selling news app within
24 hours of launch. The Blancspot social news application provides a cinematic,
objective view of global events. Designed to provide a
quick, entertaining pulse on the day's top stories, Blancspot
goes beyond reporting the news to provide a simple, engaging
framework for users to connect with their communities and get
involved in topics that interest them.
2006-2009 Chief Executive Officer, Founder,
Wakefield, Ma
Skyward Mobile developed a suite of mobile
entertainment, media, and productivity applications based upon
its proprietary APX technology. Skyward applications
b seamlessly incorporated audio, video, text, and data with
intuitive user interactivity, and raised the bar of the
mobile experience. For the first time, mobile experiences were
defined by the imagination rather than the limitations of the
device. The APX platform changed the development and
economics of application development, by enabling the rapid
development of rich, deep, elegant applications across all
mobile devices.
2001-2006 Chief Technology Officer,
North Andover, Ma and Emeryville, CA
Responsible for the technical direction of the company,
including inventing and authoring the Emmy Award winning core technology which
enabled the delivery of live television mobile devices. During
tenure at MobiTV, created more than 40 innovations that have
been patented or are patent pending. Led Advanced Projects Group
which developed first commercial versions of MobiTV products
including MobiTV and MobiRadio.
2000-2001 Chief Technology Officer, Founder,
Cambridge, MA
Led team from MIT in the design and development of
personalized streaming media platform for the creation,
management and delivery of personal streaming media -- a
platform where a stream of relevant content is dynamically
assembled from multiple sources for each individual
user. Acquired by ClickRadio in 2002.
1999-2000 Chief Technology Officer
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (NYSE: CCU) (Formerly AMFM, Inc. (NYSE:AFM)),
Austin, TX
Served as Chief Technology Officer for AMFM, Inc, which was at
the time the largest radio group in America with 465 stations and
over 100 million listeners.
Supervised the integration of
internet streaming into the Systems, Services and Technology
initiatives for AMFM including Prophet Systems, Galaxy, Star
Performance and StarSystems.
Oversaw and secured buy-in for the development
and creation of Star.com, radio streaming portal. Negotiated
strategic partnership deals and coordinated Internet strategy
with divisions within AMFM, its stations, other AMFM
companies, and with Clear Channel during merger.
1996, 1998 Research Investigator
Microsoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:MSFT)
and,,
Redmond, WA
Investigations into data, still image and video
compression. Development of a new codec for high definition
television (HDTV). Two patents pending for inventions in the
areas of fundamental data compression and HDTV encoding.
Research and development of image database retrieval technology,
based on ideas from my Master's thesis. Six patents received for
inventions relating to queryable image representations, optimized
data structures for image processing, and fundamental programming
methods.
1997 Research Investigator
Image and Signal Processing Division,
Burlington, MA
As part of MSTAR project, developed statistical multiresolution image
techniques for image discrimination, registration and segmentation
in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery.
1995-1999 Research Investigator,
Cambridge, MA
Development new image and video compression
technologies based on innovative computer vision algorithms,
the exploitation of limits of human visual perception,
and fundamental properties of information theory (1997-2001).
Research into fundamental representations for visual
information for synthetic texture generation, and image database
technology (1996-1999).
Research and development of machine vision interfaces for
the MIT Human Computer Interaction (HCI) project (1995).
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
2006 UK Technology Innovation & Grown Hottest Overseas Technology Prospect (Nominee/Finalist)
2006 GSM Association Award for Mobile Innovation (Nominee/Finalist)
2005 The Emmy Engineering Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development from The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
2005 CODiE Award for Content Newcomer of the Year
2005 Digital Hollywood Best Mobile Video Service Runner Up
2005 Mobile Entertainment Forum Best Contribution to Mobile Services Finalist
2005 DigitalLife Innovator of the Year
2005 Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies of North America
2005 Cable and Satellite International Best IPTV/Video-to-Mobile Technology or Service
2004 BEST Magazine MobileFocus Award Mobile Software
2004 Mobile Wireless Consumer Market Product Innovation of the Year
2004 Frost & Sullivan Mobile Business Solution of the Year Award
EDUCATION
Partial completion of Ph.D. (all but dissertation)
Thesis: "Improving Compression Using the Statistics of Human Perception" Cambridge, MA
1997 M.S. Computer Science
Thesis: "Novel Statistical Multiresolution
Techniques for Image Synthesis, Discrimination, and Recognition" Cambridge, MA
1993 B.S. (High honors) Applied Mathematics
New York, NY
PATENTS AND SELECTED PATENTS PENDING
Methods and apparatus for storing, accessing and processing images through the use of row and column pointersDe Bonet, J. S., Szelizki R., United States Patent #6,075,545, 2000
An Iterative Convolution Filter Particularly Suited For Use in an Image Classification And Retrieval SystemDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #5,899,999, 1999
Meta Programming Methods and ApparatusDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #5,905,894, 1999
A Statistically Based Image Group Descriptor Particularly Suited
for Used in and Image Classification and Retrieval SystemDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #5,819,288, 1998
An Image Classification And Retrieval System Using A Query-By-Example ParadigmDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #5,852,823, 1998
System and method for storage and retrieval of arbitrary content and application dataDe Bonet, J. S., et al., United States Patent #7,469,300, 2008
System and method for dynamically determining notification behavior of a monitoring system in a network environmentDe Bonet, J. S., et al, United States Patent #7,299,472, 2008
Transformation System and Method to Increase the Lempel-Ziv Compressibility of Images with Minimal Visual DistortionDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #7,263,237, 2007
A Plug-in API for Protocol and Payload TransformationDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #7,246,360, 2007
A Method for Isolating and Protecting Software ComponentsDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #7,168,008, 2007
A Multi-Tiered Caching Mechanism for the Storage and Retrieval of Content Multiple VersionsDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #7,130,872, 2006
A Plug-in API for Modular Network Transaction ProcessingDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #7,117,506, 2006
Method and system of performing transactions using shared resources and different applicationsDe Bonet, J. S., et al, United States Patent #7,073,178, 2006
Clientless Electronic Mail MIME Attachment Re-Delivery System via the Web to Reduce Network Bandwidth UsageDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
Dynamic Platform Configuration via Multiple Transactions with External Control LogicDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
Network Proxy Platform that Simultaneously Supports Data Transformation, Storage, and Manipulation for Multiple ProtocolsDe Bonet, J. S., Alvelda P., Stiers, T. A., Patent Pending
A Highly Redundant, High-Reliability and High-Performance Platform Logging/Billing Generation and Collection SubsystemDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
A Modular Plug-in Transaction Processing ArchitectureDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
Fully Configurable Management Information Bases for the Simple Network Management ProtocolDe Bonet, J. S., Stiers, T. A., Patent Pending
A modular architecture for email manipulationDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
A media network bridge system and method for redistribution, re-purposing, optimization, management, streaming data and content across networks Stiers, T. A, De Bonet, J. S., Alvelda, P., Annison, J., Patent Pending
Method for Accelerating Internet Browsing and Reducing Network Utilization When Client-Side Caching is EnabledDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
A Highly Efficient Multi-Stage XML Partial Parsing AlgorithmDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
A Method for the Systematic Redirection of Clients with Dynamically Assigned Addresses to Particular Servers Within a ClusterDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
A Device for the Conversion Between Application-Level Network ProtocolsDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
System and Method for the Dynamic Combination of Plug-in Software ModulesDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
Command Encapsulation Format System and MethodDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
Symmetric Reader-Render Architecture System and Method for Networked Multimedia PlayersDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
System and Method for Synchronized Shared Ring Buffer Architecture for Streaming Multimedia PlayersDe Bonet, J. S., Patent Pending
Method and System for Providing a Customized Media StreamDe Bonet, J. S., Viola, P. A., Patent Pending
A Personal Radio Server System for Providing a Customized Media StreamDe Bonet, J. S., Viola, P. A., Patent Pending
System and method for overlapping audio elements in a customized personal radio broadcastDe Bonet, J. S., Viola, P. A., United States Patent #6,609,096, 2003
Method and system for providing an audio element cache in a customized personal radio broadcastDe Bonet, J. S., Viola, P. A., United States Patent #6,985,694, 2006
Method and apparatus for generating a number audio element in an audio systemDe Bonet, J. S., Viola, P. A., United States Patent #6,600,898, 2003
Method for comparing two trinary logic representations in the process of customizing radio broadcastingDe Bonet, J. S., Viola, P. A., United States Patent #7,058,694, 2006
System and method for layered video coding enhancementDe Bonet, J. S., et al., United States Patent #6,510,177, 2003
Approximate string matching system and process for lossless data compressionDe Bonet, J. S., United States Patent #6,535,642, 2003
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Poxels: Probabilistic Voxelized Volume ReconstructionDe Bonet, J. S. and Viola, P. A., Proceedings of ICCV, 1999.
Data Compression Techniques for Branch PredictionDe Bonet, J. S. and Viola, P. A., 1999.
Flexible histograms: a multiresolution target discrimination modelDe Bonet, J. S. and Viola, P. A., Proceedings of SPIE, [3371-65] Vol. 3371, 1998.
Structure-driven SAR image registrationDe Bonet, J. S. and Chao, A, Proceedings of SPIE, [3370-12] Vol. 3371, 1998.
Texture Recognition Using a Non-parametric Multi-Scale Statistical ModelDe Bonet, J. S. and Viola, P. A., Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1998.
Adaptation to textured chromatic fieldsZaidi, Q., Spehar, B. and De Bonet, J.S., J. Opt. Soc. Am., A15, 23-32, 1998.
A Non-parametric Multi-Scale Statistical Model for Natural ImagesDe Bonet, J. S. and Viola, P. A., Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997.
Structure Driven Image Database RetrievalDe Bonet, J. S. and Viola, P. A., Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997.
Multiresolution Sampling Procedure for Analysis and Synthesis of Texture ImagesDe Bonet, J. S., Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 1997.
Color constancy in variegated scenes: the role of low-level
mechanisms in discounting illumination changesZaidi, Q., Spehar, B. and De Bonet, J.S., J. Opt. Soc. Am., A14, 2608-2621, 1997.
Brightness induction from uniform and complex surrounds: a general modelSpehar, B., De Bonet, J.S. and Zaidi, Q., Vision Research, 36, 1893-1906, 1996.
Comparison between spatial interactions in perceived contrast and perceived brightnessDe Bonet, J. S. and Zaidi, Q., Vision Research, 37: (9) 1141-1155 MAY 1997.
Rosetta: An Image Database Retrieval SystemDe Bonet, J. S. and Viola, P. A., Proceedings of the Image Understanding Workshop, 1997.
Novel Statistical Multiresolution Techniques for Image Synthesis, Discrimination, and RecognitionDe Bonet, J. S., Master's Thesis, Learning and Vision Group, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997.
Structure Driven SAR Image RegistrationDe Bonet, J. S., Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, MIT AI Lab, 1997.
Flexible Histograms: A Multiresolution Texture Discrimination ModelDe Bonet, J. S., Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, MIT AI Lab, 1997.
Noise Reduction Through Detection of Signal RedundancyDe Bonet, J. S., Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, MIT AI Lab, 1997.
Textures of Textures: Querying Image Databases by ExampleDe Bonet, J. S., Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, MIT AI Lab, 1997.
Multiresolution Sampling Procedure For the Analysis And Synthesis Of Texture ImagesDe Bonet, J. S., Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, MIT AI Lab, 1997.
Opponent mechanism contributions to color constancyZaidi, Q., Spehar, B. and De Bonet, J. S., International Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (Invited), 1996.
Color constancy in variegated scenes: Discounting the effect of illumination changes on perceived colorsZaidi, Q., Spehar, B., and De Bonet, J.S., Vision Research, 1996 (In Press).
Brightness induction from uniform and complex surrounds: A general modelSpehar, B., De Bonet, J. S., and Zaidi, Q., Vision Research, 36, 1893-1906, 1996.
Enhanced S cone syndrome: receptoral and post-receptoral analysesGreenstein, V., Zaidi, Q., Hood, D., De Bonet, J. S., Spehar, B., Cideciyan, A. and Jacobson, S., (In press).
Motion energy versus feature tracking: spatial, temporal, and chromatic factorsZaidi, Q. and De Bonet, J. S., (In preparation).
Optimization by Mutual Information Maximization and Input ClusteringDe Bonet, J. S.,Isbell, C. L. Jr., Viola, P. A., Neural Information Processing Systems, 1996.
Adaptation to variegated scenes and colour constancy
Zaidi, Q., Spehar, B., De Bonet, J. S., European Conference on Visual Perception, 1996.
Chromatic adaptation to variegated fieldsZaidi, Q., Spehar, B. and De Bonet, J.S., Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1996. (Inv. Ophth. & Vis. Sc., 37, S4, 1996.)
Reconstructing Rectangular Polyhedra From Hand-Drawn Wireframe SketchesDe Bonet, J. S., Unpublished 1995.
Perceived grey-levels in complex configurations.Zaidi, Q., De Bonet, J.S. and Spehar, B., Third Annual IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference, 1995. (Proceedings of the Third Annual IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference, 14-17, 1995.)
Detection of illumination changes in variegated scenesZaidi, Q., De Bonet, J. S. and Spehar, B., European Conference on Visual Perception, 1995. (Perception, 24, Suppl., 12, 1995.)
Spatial summation of brightness inductionSpehar, B., De Bonet, J. S., and Zaidi, Q., European Conference on Visual Perception, 1995. (Perception, 24, Suppl., 101, 1995.)
Temporal and spatial frequency analysis of motion-energy and feature-trackingDe Bonet, J. S. and Zaidi, Q., Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, European Conference on Visual Perception. (1995.)
Temporal and spatial frequency analysis of motion-energy and feature-trackingDe Bonet, J. S. and Zaidi, Q., Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, 1995. (Inv. Ophth. & Vis. Sc., 36, 253, 1995.)
Detection of illumination changes in variegated scenesZaidi, Q., De Bonet, J. S. and Spehar, B., Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, 1995. (Inv. Ophth. & Vis. Sc., 36, 2928, 1995.)
Spatial summation of brightness inductionSpehar, B., De Bonet, J. S., and Zaidi, Q., Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, 1995. (Inv. Ophth. & Vis. Sc., 36, 2157, 1995.)
Enhanced S cone syndrome: evidence for relatively more S than L and M conesGreenstein, V., Zaidi, Q., Hood, D., Spehar, B., De Bonet, J. S., Cideciyan, A. and Jacobson, S., Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, 1995. (Inv. Ophth. & Vis. Sc., 36, 2054, 1995.)
Perceived grey-levels in complex configurationsZaidi, Q., De Bonet, J. S. and Spehar, B., Inter Society Color Council, 1995. (ISCC 64th Annual Meeting, 39-42, 1995.)
Contribution of chromatic signals to motion-energy and feature-trackingZaidi, Q., and De Bonet, J. S., Optical Society of America, 1994. (Optics and Photonic News, 5 (suppl.), 99, 1994.)
Weighted Spatial summation of induced contrast-contrastDe Bonet, J. S. and Zaidi, Q., Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, 1994. (Inv. Ophth. & Vis. Sc., 35, 1667, 1994.)
References available upon request
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