Prof. Dr. Guido M. Schuster, find me at scholar.google.com

Office: University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland in Rapperswil Oberseestrasse 10 CH-8640 Rapperswil Switzerland +41 (0)55 222 4513 guido.schuster@hsr.ch

Home: Weierstrasse 2e CH-8712 Stäfa Switzerland +41 (0)44 364 5085 guido@barnes-schuster.ch

If you are reading a paper copy of this CV, you might want to go to www.medialab.ch/guido/ for the up-to-date online html version.  All papers and patents can be downloaded there.  If you are reading the online version, here is the printable CV as pdf.

Education

1992 – 1996, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Ph.D., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Thesis: "A video compression scheme with optimal bit allocation among segmentation, motion and residual error," GPA 4.0/4.0.
• Fully supported by a grant from Motorola Corporate Research.
• Resulted in a joint US Patent Number 5’778’192 for Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, Illinois, USA) and Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, USA).

1991 – 1992, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

M.S., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Thesis: "Adaptive room temperature control," GPA 4.0/4.0.
• Fully supported by a Landis & Gyr (now Siemens) fellowship.
• Resulted in US Patent Number 6’264’111 for Siemens Building Technologies, Inc. (Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA).

1987 – 1990, Neu Technikum Buchs, Buchs, Switzerland

Dipl. Ing. HTL, Elektronik, Mess- und Regeltechnik

• Thesis: "New Control Concepts using MATLAB"; GPA 5.7/6.0.
• Winner of the “Gesellschaft Schweiz-Lichtenstein” Gold Medal for graduating first in the class with a 6.0/6.0 in the final comprehensive exam.

Academic
experience

2007 – Present, University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland in Rapperswil

Director of the Master Research Unit
 “Sensor, Actuator and Communication Systems”

• Manage the Master Research Unit “Sensor, Actuator and Communication Systems” which consists of seven professors and is supported by the Institute for Communication Systems and the Institute for Microelectronics and Embedded Systems.
• Established a pattern recognition graduate seminar and a graduate class about statistical digital signal processing.

2001 – Present, University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland in Rapperswil

Professor, Electrical Engineering

• Conduct research in digital signal/image processing and wireless sensor networks. This work is funded by American and Swiss Industries, the Swiss Commission for Innovation and Technology and the Swiss Department of Defense.
• Teach Digital Signal Processing I & II and Digital Media I & II.
• Established a new multimedia communications class (Digital Media I & II) and created an associated teaching lab. In this lab, the students implement a fully functional Voice over IP Application.
• Acquired a grant to equip sixty students with a TI 6713 development system, which is used to implement real time signal processing projects in parallel to my digital signal processing class.
• Established a student exchange program with Northwestern University, USA, Starkey Laboratories, USA, and Stavanger University, Norway.

1998 – 2001, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Advised graduate students in research efforts in networked multimedia and operational rate distortion theory while working at nearby 3Com.
• Conducted seminars on multimedia communications with focus on Voice and Video over IP.

1994, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Adjunct Lecturer

• Designed the syllabus, lectured and wrote exams for an introductory class on computers for non-technical majors.

1994, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Minority Tutor

• Worked one-on-one with a minority student teaching the computer language "C++".

1992 –1993, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Teaching Assistant

• Prepared and held lectures in professor’s absence. Oversaw review and laboratory sessions.

Industry experience	1999 – 2001, 3Com, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA Senior Director and Chief Technical Officer of the 3Com Internet Communications Business Co-founded the Internet Communications Business of 3Com that built the first commercially available SIP Internet telephony system. This System received over 25 different industry awards, such as the CTI EXPO Best of Show Award and the PC Magazine Editors Choice Award. Co-wrote the business plan and presented it to the CEO/CFO/COO of 3Com. Managed the research and development department for this new business of 3Com.
	1998 – 1999, 3Com, Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA Associate Director of Advanced Technologies Proposed the paradigm of a Personal Communications Assistant and our group, Advanced Technologies, implemented a prototype system. This prototype was the first completely functioning SIP Voice over IP (VoIP) system. Started a 3Com internal program for VoIP call signaling based on SIP, developed by the IETF.  I was the ambassador for SIP inside of 3Com.  This has resulted in the fact that 3Com has leading edge SIP technology of which most can be directly traced back to my early SIP development effort. Worked in the SIP working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and represented 3Com at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
	1997 – 1998, 3Com, Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA Staff Engineer Proposed that the channel coding and decoding be done in the remote access server, which in turn allows for a larger part of the modem bandwidth to be used for the source coding. Implemented a video streamer, showing the superior performance of this approach. Proposed and implemented a simple but powerful packet recovery scheme. The time complexity and memory requirements are both linear in the length of the packet, which is significantly better than Reed-Solomon based approaches. Proposed the concept of an "error resilient tunnel" through the Internet using FEC inside of L2TP. This tunnel enables a faster TCP connection when the network is congested. Simulations show that the speed up in Web traffic is in the order of 2 to 4.

1996 – 1997, U.S. Robotics/3Com, Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA

Senior Engineer

• Co-founded the Advanced Technologies group and the Advanced Technologies Research Center.
• Created VoIP prototypes and wrote a widely read report that resulted in the VoIP program of U.S. Robotics/3Com.
• Proposed the paradigm of "hypothetical decoders" which is used to optimally trade off the delay, the rate and the distortion using a single utility function. Applied the paradigm to VoIP receiver buffer adaptation.

1994 –1996, Motorola/Northwestern University, Illinois, USA

Research Associate

• Designed and implemented a very low bit rate video coder for MPEG-4. This was the first video coder using optimal bit allocation among motion, segmentation and residual error and it outperformed all other published video coders in the rate distortion sense.
• Designed and implemented a boundary-encoding scheme that is optimal in the rate distortion sense for MPEG-4. This scheme outperformed all other published approaches in the rate distortion sense.

1991 – 1992, Landis & Gyr, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA

Engineer (part time)

• Conducted research in adaptive temperature control. Modeled different thermostat/room dynamics. Invented powerful adaptive control structure, which results in simple tuning formulas for the existing PID controllers.

Publications

Books and book chapters

1. "Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression; Optimal Video Frame Compression and Object Boundary Encoding," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
2. "Video telephony," L. P. Kondi, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos in Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999, by invitation.
3. "Rate-Distortion based optimal video summary," Z. Li, A. K. Katsaggelos and G. M. Schuster in Intelligent Multimedia Processing with Soft Computing, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, November 2004, by invitation.

Peer reviewed journals

1. "A video compression scheme with optimal bit allocation among segmentation, motion and residual error," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 1487-1502, November 1997.
2. "A theory for the optimal bit allocation between displacement vector field and displaced frame difference," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 1739-1751, December 1997.
3. "The minimum-average and minimum-maximum criteria in lossy compression," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, Vistas in Astronomy, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 427-437, 1997.
4. "An optimal polygonal boundary encoding scheme in the rate distortion sense," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 13-26, January 1998.  This paper received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award 2001.
5. "Real-time voice over packet switched networks," T. J. Kostas, M. S. Borella, I. Sidhu, G. M. Schuster, J. Grabiec and J. Mahler, IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 18-27, January/February 1998.
6. "MPEG-4 and rate-distortion based shape coding techniques," A. K. Katsaggelos, L. P. Kondi, F. W. Meier, J. Ostermann and G. M. Schuster, in Proceedings of the IEEE, Special issue on Multimedia Signal Processing, Part two, pp. 1126-1154, April 1998.
7. "An optimal quad-tree-based motion estimation and motion compensated interpolation scheme for video compression," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 11, No. 11, pp. 1505 - 1523, November 1998.
8. "Operationally optimal vertex-based shape coding," G. M. Schuster, G. Melnikov and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, special issue on rate distortion based signal processing, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp.91 - 108, November 1998, by invitation.
9. "A review of the minimum maximum criterion for optimal bit allocation among dependent quantizers," G. M. Schuster, G. Melnikov and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 3 - 17, March 1999.
10. "True number portability and advanced call screening in a SIP-based IP-telephony system," I. Dalgic, M.S. Borella, R. Dean, J. Grabiec, J. Mahler, G. M. Schuster and I. Sidhu, IEEE Communications Magazine, special issue on the provision of communication services over hybrid networks, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 96 – 102, July 1999.
11. "A mathematical model for shape coding with B-Splines," F. W. Meier, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, Signal Processing: Image Communications, Vol. 15 (7-8), pp. 685-701, May 2000.
12. "Shape coding using temporal correlation and joint VLC optimization," G. Melnikov, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 744 – 754, August 2000.
13. "An efficient rate-distortion optimal shape coding approach utilizing a skeleton-based decomposition," H. Wang, G. M. Schuster, T. N. Pappas, and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 1181 - 1193, October 2003.
14. "A rate-distortion optimal alternative to Matching Pursuit," T. Ryen, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 1352-1363, May 2004.
15. "Shape error concealment using Hermite splines," G. M. Schuster, X. Li and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 808-820, June 2004.
16. "Operational rate-distortion optimal bit allocation for object-based video coding," H. Wang, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 1113-1123, September 2005.
17. "Rate-Distortion optimal video summary generation," Z. Li, A. K. Katsaggelos, G. M. Schuster and B. Gandhi, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 1550-1560, October 2005.
18. "MINMAX optimal video summarization," Z. Li, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, No. 10, pp. 1245-1256, October 2005.
19. "Motion compensated shape error concealment," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 501-510, February 2006.
20.  “A framework for efficient optimal multilevel image thresholding,” M. Lüssi, M. Eichmann, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol 18, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2009.

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

1. "An optimal lossy segmentation encoding scheme," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of Visual Communications and Image Processing, pages 1050-1061, Orlando, Florida, March 1996.
2. "Fast and efficient mode and quantizer selection in the rate distortion sense for H.263," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of Visual Communications and Image Processing, pages 784-795, Orlando, Florida, March 1996.
3. "A video compression scheme with optimal bit allocation between displacement vector field and displaced frame difference," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pages 1967-1970, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1996.
4. "An optimal segmentation encoding scheme in the rate distortion sense," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuits and Systems, volume 2, pages 640-643, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1996.
5. "A very low bit rate video codec with optimal tradeoff among DVF, DFD and segmentation," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Signal Processing, pages 439-442, Trieste, Italy, September 1996, by invitation.
6. "An efficient boundary encoding scheme which is optimal in the rate distortion sense," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, volume 2, pages 77-80, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996.
7. "An optimal quad-tree-based motion estimator," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the Conference on Digital Compression Technologies and Systems for Video Communications, pages 50-61, Berlin, Germany, October 1996.
8. "Optimal decomposition of quad-trees with leaf dependencies," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, California, February 1997.
9. "Optimal bit allocation among dependent quantizers for the minimum maximum distortion criterion," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume 4, pages 3105-3108, Munich, Germany, April 1997.
10. "An efficient boundary encoding scheme using B-spline curves which is optimal in the rate distortion sense," F. W. Meier, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the second Erlangen Symposium, Advances in digital image communication, pages 75-84, Erlangen, Germany, April 1997.
11. "An efficient boundary encoding scheme which is optimal in the rate distortion sense," F. W. Meier, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, volume 2, pages 9-12, Santa Barbara, California, October 1997.
12. "Joint optimal object shape estimation and encoding," L. P. Kondi, F. W. Meier, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, California, January 1998.
13. "Voice and Data Session Capacity over Local Area Networks," T. A. Fry, I. Sidhu, G. M. Schuster and J. Mahler, in Proceedings of the IEEE Networld Interop 98, Las Vegas, May 1998.  This paper received the best student paper award.
14. "Rate distortion optimal boundary encoding using an area distortion measure," G. Melnikov, P. Karunarante, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Monterey, California, May 31 - June 3, 1998.
15. "Spatially disjoint source channel coding: Taking advantage of the current dial-up architecture for video over the Internet," G. M. Schuster, I. S. Sidhu and M. S. Borella, in Proceeding of the International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, October 1998.
16. "Simultaneous optimal boundary encoding and variable-length code selection," G. Melnikov, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceeding of the International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, Illinois, October 1998.
17. "Exploiting temporal correlation is shape coding," G. Melnikov, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsggelos, in Proceedings of the Thirty Second Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, November 1998.
18. "Inter mode vertex-based optimal shape coding," G. Melnikov, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceeding of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Phoenix, Arizona, March 15-19, 1999.
19. "Context-based optimal shape coding," G. Melnikov, A. K. Katsaggelos and G. M. Schuster, in Proceeding of the IEEE Third Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 13-15, 1999.
20. "A Rate-distortion optimal alternative to Matching Pursuit," T. Ryen, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceeding of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 13-17, 2002.
21. "A recursive shape error concealment algorithm," X. Li, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, New York, USA, September 22-25, 2002.
22. "Curve-fitting algorithms for shape error concealment," X. Li, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 5^th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, on board the MS Trollfjord from Tromso to Trondheim, Norway, October 4-7, 2002.
23. "A frame-based rate-distortion optimal coding system using a lower bound depth-first-search strategy," T. Ryen, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 5^th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, on board the MS Trollfjord from Tromso to Trondheim, Norway, October 4-7, 2002.
24. "An optimal shape encoding scheme using skeleton decomposition," H. Wang, G. M. Schuster, T. N. Pappas and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2002 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Marriott Beach Resort, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, December 9-11, 2002.
25. "Minmax optimal shape coding using skeleton decomposition," H. Wang, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Baltimore, MD, July 6-9, 2003.
26. "Operational rate-distortion optimal bit allocation between shape and texture for MPEG-4 video coding," H. Wang, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Baltimore, MD, July 6-9, 2003.
27. "Robust line detection using a weighted MSE estimator," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 14-17, 2003.
28. "Spline-based boundary loss concealment," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 14-17, 2003.
29. "Efficient frame vector selection based on ordered sets," T. Ryen, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 14-17, 2003.
30. "Object-based video compression scheme with optimal bit allocation among shape, motion and texture," H. Wang, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 14-17, 2003.
31. "Rate-distortion optimal video summarization: a dynamic programming solution," Z. Li, A. K. Katsaggelos, G. M. Schuster and B. Gandhi, in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 17-21, 2004.
32. "Minmax optimal video summarization," Z. Li, G. M. Schuster, A. K. Katsaggelos and B. Gandhi, in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, April 21-23, 2004.
33. "Motion compensated shape error concealment," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.
34. "Robust circle detection using a weighted MSE estimator," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.
35. "Optimal video summarization with bit budget constraint," Z. Li, G. M. Schuster, A. K. Katsaggelos, and B. Gandhi, in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.
36. "Optimal intra-coded video summarization for two bandwidth limited channels," R. Ansorge, E. Kirchmeier, Z. Li, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, in Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS’05), Montreux, Switzerland, April 13-15, 2005.
37. "Video summarization for multiple path communication," Z. Li, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005.
38. “New results on efficient optimal multilevel image thresholding,” M. Lüssi, M. Eichmann, G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 8-11, 2006.
39. “Eukaryotic gene prediction by spectral analysis and pattern recognition techniques,” T. Eftestøl, T. Ryen, S.O. Aase, C.Strässle, M. Boos, G. M. Schuster and P. Ruoff in Proceedings of the 7^th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, Askja, Reykjavik, Iceland June 7 - 9, 2006,.
40. “WOLA Noise canceling performance,” G. M. Schuster and R. Ansorge, in Proceedings of the 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 25-29, 2008.
41. “A high performance low complexity noise suppression algorithm,” R. Hegner, H.-D. Lang and G. M. Schuster, in Proceedings of the 2009 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Glasgow, Scotland, August 24-28, 2009.
42. “A Kalman filter based noise suppression algorithm using speech and noise models derived from spatial information” R. Schmid and G. M. Schuster, in Proceedings of the 2010  European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aalborg, Denmark, August 23-27, 2010.

Patents

Patents granted

These patents are in broadly used areas of adaptive control, video compression, networking technology, IP telephony, and PDA functionality. Technology and intellectual property from his work has been cross-licensed to Siemens, Motorola, Palm (now HP) , 3Com (now HP), IBM and UT Starcom.

1.	7,573,873	Internet telephony using network address translation
2.	7,453,815	Method and system for monitoring and management of the performance of real-time networks
3.	7,016,675	System and method for controlling telephone service using a wireless personal information device
4.	6,954,454	Architecture for a central office using IP technology
5.	6,937,699	System and method for advertising using data network telephone connections
6.	6,914,897	System and method for accessing radio programs using a data network telephone in a network based telecommunication system
7.	6,870,830	System and method for performing messaging services using a data communications channel in a data network telephone system
8.	6,857,072	System and method for enabling encryption/authentication of a telephony network
9.	6,857,021	Proximity-based registration on a data network telephony system
10.	6,856,616	System and method for providing service provider configurations for telephones using a central server in a data network telephony system
11.	6,822,957	Distributed network address translation for a network telephony system
12.	6,804,224	System and method for providing telephone service having private branch exchange features in a voice-over-data network telephony system
13.	6,795,429	System and method for associating notes with a portable information device on a network telephony call
14.	6,785,261	Method and system for forward error correction with different frame sizes
15.	6,771,674	Method and system for forward error correction based on parallel streams
16.	6,744,759	System and method for providing user-configured telephone service in a data network telephony system
17.	6,741,586	System and method for sharing computer screens over a telephony network
18.	6,732,314	Method and apparatus for L2TP forward error correction
19.	6,731,642	Internet telephony using network address translation
20.	6,731,630	Flexible dial plan for a data network telephony system
21.	6,681,252	System and method for interconnecting portable information devices through a network based telecommunication system
22.	6,678,250	Method and system for monitoring and management of the performance of real-time networks
23.	6,675,218	System for user-space network packet modification
24.	6,674,745	Method and system for mapping phone numbers to IP addresses
25.	6,650,901	System and method for providing user-configured telephone service in a data network telephony system
26.	6,650,619	Method and system for facilitating increased call traffic by reducing signaling load in an emergency mode
27.	6,625,119	Method and system for facilitating increased call traffic by switching to a low bandwidth encoder in a public emergency mode
28.	6,584,490	System and method for providing call-handling services on a data network telephone system
29.	6,577,622	System and method for using a portable information device to establish a conference call on a telephony network
30.	6,570,606	Method and apparatus for controlling transmission of media signals over a data network in response to triggering events at participating stations
31.	6,567,399	Hi-fidelity line card
32.	6,535,486	Method and apparatus for adaptive prioritization of multiple information types in highly congested communication devices
33.	6,512,761	System for adjusting billing for real-time media transmissions based on delay
34.	6,487,690	Forward error correction system for packet based real time media
35.	6,487,603	Method and apparatus for real time communication over switched networks
36.	6,483,600	System and method for communicating real-time facsimiles over data networks
37.	6,446,127	System and method for providing user mobility services on a telephony network
38.	6,434,606	System for real time communication buffer management
39.	6,366,959	Method and apparatus for real time communication system buffer size and error correction coding selection
40.	6,363,053	Method and apparatus for measurement-based conformance testing of service level agreements in networks
41.	6,360,271	System for dynamic jitter buffer management based on synchronized clocks
42.	6,351,524	Toll saving method and apparatus for a remote access system
43.	6,269,099	Protocol and method for peer network device discovery
44.	6,264,111	Proportional-integral-derivative controller having adaptive control capability
45.	6,243,846	Forward error correction system for packet based data and real time media, using cross-wise parity calculation
46.	6,226,769	Forward error correction system for packet based real time media
47.	6,182,125	Methods for determining sendable information content based on a determined network latency
48.	6,175,871	Method and apparatus for real time communication over packet networks
49.	6,170,075	Data and real-time media communication over a lossy network
50.	6,151,636	Data and media communication through a lossy channel using signal conversion
51.	6,145,109	Forward error correction system for packet based real time media
52.	6,130,880	Method and apparatus for adaptive prioritization of multiple information types in highly congested communication devices
53.	6,125,343	System and method for selecting a loudest speaker by comparing average frame gains
54.	5,870,412	Forward error correction system for packet based real time media
55.	5,778,192	Method and device for optimal bit allocation between different sources of information in digital video compression
56.	5,764,921	Method, device and microprocessor for selectively compressing video frames of a motion compensated prediction-based video codec

Patents filed

• “Method for reducing noise in an input signal of a hearing device as well as a hearing device,” filed February 2008 by Phonak AG. This patent concerns a noise suppression algorithm for hearing aids.
• “Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Füllen von Zielbehältern,” filed February 2009 by Mettler-Toledo AG. This patent concerns an adaptive control algorithm which is used in a powder dosing system.
• An additional “Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Füllen von Zielbehältern,” filed March 2010 by Mettler-Toledo AG. This patent concerns a novel plant dynamics estimation algorithm which is used in a powder dosing system.
• “Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Erkennung fester Substanzen in einer flüssigen Phase,” filed November 2010 by Mettler-Toledo AG. This patent concerns a novel computer vision system.

Awards and Honors	1987, Berufsmittelschule, St.Gallen, Switzerland Valedictorian Award for graduating first in my class, GPA 5.6/6.0.
	1990, Neu Technikum Buchs, Buchs, Switzerland Gold Medal from the Schweiz-Lichtenstein Society Gold medal for graduating first in the class, GPA 5.7/6.0.
	1990-1992, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA First Place in the Landis & Gyr Fellowship Competition Winner of the first Landis & Gyr fellowship competition as the best graduating senior from a Swiss University of Applied Sciences in 1990. This fellowship paid all expenses and tuition for obtaining a Master of Science degree at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
	1999, 3Com, Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA 3Com Inventor of the Year Award Most prestigious award given to one of the thirteen thousand employees of 3Com Award received for creating the Internet Communications Business and all its associated intellectual property.
	2000, 3Com, Mt. Prospect, Illinois, USA 3Com Silver/Gold/Platinum Inventor More than ten/twenty/thirty patents awarded.

2001, IEEE Signal Processing Society, USA

IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award

• Award given for: "An optimal polygonal boundary encoding scheme in the rate distortion sense," G. M. Schuster and A. K. Katsaggelos, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 13-26, January 1998.

• This is the most important award (formerly known as the Senior Award) given by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
  Quote: “The Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Society's technical scope, and appearing in one of the Society's Transactions, irrespective of the author's age.”

2006, FUTUR Trust, Rapperswil, Switzerland

Technology Transfer Innovation Award

• Award given for the technology transfer project Sibox plus which is an inductively powered, cryptographically secure, wireless key safe now in production by Helbling and Co. AG, Jona, Switzerland.
• This is the highest and only award given at the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland in Rapperswil for research and development excellence.

2006, Commission for Technology and Innovation, Switzerland

Medical technology Award

• This award was given to the project: “clothing ensemble for the upper body part with integrated embroided electrodes for long term monitoring of electro cardiogram of elderly people".
• This project was led by the EMPA and participants where the NTB, the ETH, Schiller AG, Odlo International AG and Bischoff Textil AG. We joined the team in 2007 and our contribution was the development of a wireless sensor network that was employed for measuring the ECG using the developed textile electrodes. Furthermore, visualization software was also developed that allowed the monitoring of the person wearing the above sensor shirt.
• A successor project has been implemented by us, where the award money was used to enhance the developed ideas and translate them into a body surface potential measuring system.

2007, FUTUR Trust, Rapperswil, Switzerland

Technology Transfer Innovation Award

• Award given for the technology transfer project RockNet , which is a wireless sensor network designed to monitor dangerous mountain sides. Currently this system is being extended and integrated into POLYCOM, which is a communication system for Swiss emergency organizations.

2008, FUTUR Trust, Rapperswil, Switzerland

Technology Transfer Innovation Award

• Award given for the technology transfer project LOCO, a high performance low complexity noise suppression algorithm for hearing aids, using spatial information and Wiener filtering. Currently this system is being evaluated by Phonak as a possible candidate for their next generation hearing aids.

2009, European Satellite Navigation Competition, EU

Regional Winner Switzerland Award

• Award given for the project “Energy Efficient Vehicle Driving and Routing Solution”, an experimental on-board device which estimates the current vehicle power use, suggests a more efficient driving style and finds the most energy efficient route for a particular driver and a particular vehicle.

2009, The Association for Laboratory Automation and
          R&D Magazine, USA

New Product Award and
R&D 100 Award

• Awards given to Mettler-Toledo AG for the Quantos Dosing Systems QB1. At the heart of this innovation is an adaptive control algorithm for a non-linear, time varying plant with large delay, which we developed. The patents describing this scheme were filed February 2009 and March 2010 by Mettler-Toledo AG.

2010, FUTUR Trust, Rapperswil, Switzerland

Technology Transfer Recognition Award

• Award given for the project “User Interface aus einem Guss”. In this joint project with the IWK institute of the HSR, a digital ultrathin capacitive multi-touch backlit user interface has been developed. The user interface is built up in layers which are then put into an injection molding machine. After the injection molding the finished user interface results. This user interface can now be connected to any microcontroller for immediate use.

2010, European Satellite Navigation Competition, EU

1^st Runner-up Switzerland Award

• Award given for the project “Smart Traffic Monitoring using a novel displacement sensor and GPS/GPRS”. This is a system which employs an array of GPS synchronized displacement sensors for traffic monitoring. The displacement sensor is sensitive enough, that the elastic deformation of the road surface can be measured and used to detect the occurrence of a vehicle. Furthermore the sensor array can estimate the speed, direction and lane usage of the vehicle.

Start-up Experience	1999, 3Com, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA Co-Founder of S4 This was a 3Com internal start-up named S4 for “Sidhu, Schuster, SIP, Sync”. Managed the research team which created the technology for a SIP VoIP solution later released by 3Com.
	2001, Cambia Networks, Rosemont, Illinois, USA Consultant Served on the Technical Advisory Board of the wireless start-up Cambia Networks during the founding phase. Worked as a consultant for the start-up, helping to establish the technology roadmap.
	2009, Insoric AG, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland Technology Provider Insoric AG was founded 2009 with the purpose of productizing “EveDars”, the technology which was awarded the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2009 Switzerland Award. The first product will be release in 2011 and is a device measuring vehicle power while a vehicle is in motion.
	2010, Basler & Hofmann AG, Zürich, Switzerland Technology Provider Basler& Hofmann is financing a spin-off for productizing a wireless sensor network that was developed in our lab. The first product will be release in 2011 and is a wireless sensor network which can be used to monitor a construction site.

Service	Current, IEEE Signal Processing Society, USA Reviewer, ICASSP and ICIP Review papers submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) and papers submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
	Current, IEEE Signal Processing Society, USA Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Review papers submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Languages	Fluent in English. Fluent in German.
Didactic Education	Fall 2004: A two day course tailored towards the newly introduced Bologna model. Fall 2005: A one day course in creating objective, reliable and valid tests. Fall 2006: A one day course about supporting independent student learning.
Personal	Swiss citizen. Married and father of three lovely daughters. Enjoy playing soccer, skiing and motorcycles.