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Dr. Andrew Tescher, the Editor-in-Chief of IMSC Press, is affiliated with the Compression Science Corporation in San Jose, CA. Under a special assignment to Microsoft Corporation, he serves as U.S. Head of Delegation to SC29, the international standards body for the coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information. He is also a "Guest Researcher" of the Information Access Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

He was previous Chairman of IMSC's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), and is currently an SAB member. He is also a member of IMSC's Board of Councillors. Since receiving his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from USC, he has spent more than 20 years in the image and signal processing field as well as in the multimedia field.

He has published extensively in compression technologies for commercial and space applications in addition to other areas of signal processing. He is co-inventor of several teleconferencing systems and co-author of related key patents. Dr. Tescher is a Fellow, Life Member, Past Director and Past President of SPIE. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. For his technical contributions, he received the Gold Medal of SPIE and the Edward Rhein Prize from Germany's Edward Rhein Foundation.