Petronel Bigioi

Dr. Petronel Bigioi is CTO, Imaging of Xperi Corporation. In this role, he leads a 100+ engineering team developing image processing solutions to address various problems in the digital still camera, mobile phone, automotive and other related markets. XPERI’s imaging technology can be found in more than 3.6 billion imaging devices worldwide. Petronel has more than 500 granted and published U.S. and international patents to date. Petronel is a IEEE fellow with over 20 years of experience in the digital still camera and mobile phone industries, working in both image processing and connectivity. A co-founder of several successful companies (including FotoNation), he is also a pioneer of digital camera connectivity, a co-author and actively involved in the picture transfer protocol (PTP) and PTP-over-IP networks communication standards.Married, father of four, Petronel enjoys photography, playing ping pong and is a music aficionado in his spare time.