Experience
Motorola Corporate Research Laboratories Apr 1998 to Present Schaumburg, IL, USA
Developed strategy (including technology and market analyses), architectures, and potential products for scalable multimedia networking within the home. Wrote whitepaper that described and suggested modifications for increased participation and effectiveness to Motorola's Intellectual Property practices within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Worked with University Relations to further recruitment efforts at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Silicon Graphics Incorporated Jun/Jul 1993, Jul/Aug 1994 Mountain View, CA, USA
Summer Intern, wrote several papers examining real time implementation issues for hybrid transform video compression algorithms including MPEG2. Subsequently worked as a video compression specialist and consultant as part of a team to design the O2 workstation.
Telecom Australia Research Laboratories Dec 1989 - Jul 1992 Melbourne, Vic., Australia
ISDN protocol stack programming, hardware design & systems integration for secure ISDN terminal adaptor based on x86 architecture. Design and programming of software based H.261 decoder which was subsequently used to explore cell loss recovery mechanisms for packetised H.261 video transmission across ATM broadband networks.
Doctor of Physiology, Ph.D., Media Arts & Sciences,
June 1998. Doctoral Dissertation, "Smart Network Caches: Localized Content
and Application Negotiated Recovery Mechanisms for Multicast Media Distribution,"
supervised by Dr. Andrew B. Lippman, Dr. David C. Clarke, and Mr. Carl
Malamud. Ph.D. dissertation was undertaken at the MIT Media Laboratory
and explored architectures for scalable media distribution over the Internet
based on multicast, caching and end-to-end principles. Supervised two Masters
students and served as a reader on the Master's thesis of Guillaume Boissier.
Course work included classes in Computer Vision and Financial and Managerial
Accounting G.P.A. 5.0/5.0.
Master of Science, S.M., Media Arts & Sciences, June 1994. Masters Thesis under Dr. Andrew B. Lippman, Associate Director, MIT Media Laboratory titled "Building the Big Picture: Enhanced Resolution from Coding", researching object-oriented video coding techniques. Course work included classes in Image Representation, Two Dimensional Signal Processing, and Holography. G.P.A. 5.0/5.0.
Team leader and chief designer of the MIT Media Laboratory MPEG Video Coding Library. MIT Media Laboratory alternate member of ISO/SC29/JTC/WG11(MPEG) international standards body 1992 - 1994. Teaching Assistant Fall 1993 - 1994, Signals, Systems & Information Technology. Co-Chair of Graduate Student Council Activities Committee 1993 - 1994. President Graduate Student Council 1994 - 1995. Member of the Advisory Committee for the Selection of the New Graduate School Dean 1995. Corporation Joint Advisory Committee 1994 -1995.
University of Melbourne 1986-1990 Melbourne, Vic., Australia
B.E.(Electrical) with 1st Class Honours, November 1989, B.Sc. (Computer Science), November 1990. Broad curriculum in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with particular emphasis on Communications, Digital Signal Processing, VLSI design, Image Processing, Control Theory and Computer Graphics.
Tutor, Electrical Engineering Trinity College. Melbourne
University Lacrosse club 1988 - 1992, selected for Australian Universities
Lacrosse team 1989. Coach Melbourne University Women's Lacrosse team 1991
-1992.
J. Gemmell, E. Schooler, and R. Kermode, "An Architecture for Multicast Telepresentations", To appear: Journal of Computing and Information Technology.
J. Gemmell, E. Schooler, and R. Kermode, "A Scalable Multicast Architecture for One-to-many Telepresentations", IEEE Multimedia Systems 98, June 28 - July 1, 1998, Austin TX, USA
R.G. Kermode, "Smart Network Caches: Localized Content and Application Negotiated Recovery Mechanisms for Multicast Media Distribution", Doctoral Dissertation, MIT Media Lab, June 1998.
A.B. Lippman, R.G. Kermode, "Media Banks: Entertainment and the Internet", I.B.M. Systems Journal,
R.G.Kermode, H.N. Holtzman, A.B.Lippman "The Media Bank: A Fault Tolerant Heterogeneous Pull
R.G.Kermode, A.B. Lippman, "Coding for Content: Enhanced Resolution from Coding", IEEE Image
R.G. Kermode, "Building the BIG Picture: Enhanced Resolution from Coding", Master's Thesis, MIT 1994
A.B. Lippman and R.G. Kermode, "Generalized Predictive Coding of Movies ", Picture Coding Symposium `93, Lausanne, Switzerland.
R.G. Kermode and W.B.S. Tan, "Recovery from Packet Dropout in Packetised H.261 Video Transmission ", Australian Broadband Switching and Services Symposium `91, Sydney, Australia.