Dan Grois received the Ph.D. degree at the Communication Systems Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel, 2011, where he held a position of a Senior Researcher till 2013. Starting from the middle of 2013 until 2017, Dan was a Senior Researcher at the Video Coding & Analytics Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Germany. Currently, starting from 2017, Dan is a Principal Researcher at Comcast, where he is mainly working on advanced perceptual video quality optimization techniques for HDR UHD video coding, including neural networks-based optimizations. During his carrier, Dan was granted various fellowships, including the Kreitman Fellowships, ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship, and Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellowship. In addition, Dan actively participates in the video standardization activities of ISO/IEC and ITU-T organizations, such as JCT-VC, JVET, and is an active contributor of the HEVC and VVC video coding standards. Dan is an author/co-author of more than 70 publications in the area of image/video coding and data processing. Starting from 2021, Dan is an Associate Editor of the IEEE TCSVT Journal, and starting from 2022, Dan is a Department Editor of the IEEE Multimedia and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazines. In addition, Dan is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM, SMPTE, SPIE, SCTE and ATSC organizations.
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