Dr. Marie-José Montpetit

Invited Scientist, Electrical Engineering Computer Science, MIT (Massachussets)
 
Marie-José Montpetit is an invited scientist in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT focusing on video convergence.

She is also a collaborator at the MIT Communications Futures Program where her work on Social TV has received a lot of attention.
 
Her current work is on how TV is mobile, social and IP based and involves multiscreens and both seamless and collaborative experiences. This work involves novel approaches to networking in heterogeneous ecosystems, software platforms and collaborative user interfaces.
 
In 2007-2008 Dr. Montpetit was an invited scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory where she is still involved in a class on converged video applications. Dr. Montpetit received a Ph.D. in EECS from the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada.  She is a member of the IEEE Standing Committee on DSP and a collaborator to the ETSI BSM working group on aspects of convergence. She was the recipient of the Motorola Innovation Prize in 2007 for the development of a multi-screen and multi-network video mobility system. Her work on converged video applications and multi-screen IPTV has gotten her many invited papers and keynote presentations.
 
She is a reviewer for the European Union for proposal and projects in the wireless networking and future Internet fields as well as the editor of many journals and publications and has served on numerous conference program committees. Dr. Montpetit is a Senior Member of the IEEE.