Abel, Jürgen - Lossless data compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT), author of ABC.
Adler, Mark - Works at JPL. Information-ZIP, gzip, zlib, and PNG.
Battilana, Michael C. - Text compression, Lempel-Ziv coding, author of "The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective".
Bell, Timothy C. - Author of "Managing Gigabytes." CS department head at the University of Canterbury.
Chen, Tsuhan - Audio-visual interaction and collaboration, video coding and multimedia communication.
Creusere, Charles - Perfect reconstruction filter banks, wavelets, video compression. Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.
Delp, Edward J. - Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Communication Theory. Professor at Purdue.
Effros, Michelle - Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. Communications, compression, information theory, image processing.
Florencio, Dinei - Perfect Reconstruction Non-Linear Filter Banks, the Motion Transform. Formerly a student at Georgia Tech.
Fowler, James E. - Assistant professor at Mississippi State. Image and video processing and coding.
Frey, Brendan J. - Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. Source coding, computer vision, and interative decoding.
Gailly, Jean-loup - Author of gzip, zlib, coauthor of "The Data Compression Book. "
Gilchrist, Jeff - Author of the Archive Comparison Test (data compression benchmarks) and researcher in the area of cryptography and distributed computing.
Gray, Robert M. - Vector quantization for signal compression and classification.
Ortega, Antonio - Digital Image and Video Communication Systems, Adaptive and Multiresolution Compression Techniques, and Joint Source-Channel Coding For Transmission Over Broadcast Channels and Packet Networks. Assistant Professor at USC.
Pearlman, William A. - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Research interests and publications.
Simoncelli, Eero - Computer vision, image processing, motion, and compression.
Strutz, Tilo - Hochschule für Telekommunikation, Leipzig, (University of Applied Sciences). Field: Information and Coding Theory. Research interests: Data compression, image coding, signal processing. Textbook on Image Data Compression.
Taubman, David S. - At the University of New South Wales. Image and video compression and processing.
Verdu, Sergio - Rate-distortion theory, source coding. Professor at Princeton.
Vinokur, Alex - Huffman Coding (including n-ary Huffman Template Algorithm). At Tadiran Scopus.
Vitter, Jeff - Chair of CS department at Duke. Interests include dynamic Huffman codes, arithmetic coding, lossless image compression, and motion compensation for video coding.