Panos Nasiopoulos, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, has made groundbreaking contributions to industry and academia in the areas of interactive digital video (DVD technology), 3D video, digital video compression, and video communications. As CEO and CTO of Daikin US, he led the company to develop the pioneering digital video authoring system known as Scenarist that enabled the DVD market, as well as subsequent digital video technologies (PVR set-top-box, interaction, video-on demand, streaming). Nasiopoulos' academic research in digital media is leading innovation internationally. The candidate is the inaugural Dolby Professor in Digital Multimedia at UBC.