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Henrique S. Malvar PhD '86

Henrique S. Malvar oversees research in several areas, including Microsoft's Adaptive Systems and Interaction, Communication and Collaboration Systems, Data Management, Exploration and Mining, Databases, Interactive Visual Media, Knowledge Tools, Machine Learning and Applied Statistics, Natural Language Processing, Speech Technology, and Text Mining, Search, and Navigation.

Malvar received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1986. Before coming to Microsoft, he was Vice President of Research and Advanced Technology at PictureTel. Prior to that, he headed the Digital Signal Processing Research Group at Universidade de Bras’lia, Brazil. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1997, and received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2002. He holds more than 40 patents and 20-plus pending patent applications, and has published more than 120 articles in journals and conferences.