Bio

Todd Hodes is Principal Architect and Director of Applications Software Engineering at Eluvio, Inc., a multimedia content networking startup in Berkeley, CA, USA. Previously, he was Senior Scientist & Director of Mobile Engineering at LocationLabs, an Emeryville Carrier-focused mobile platform provider acquired by AVG and then Avast. He received his B.S. in computer science and applied mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1994, and his M.S. and Ph.D in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 and 2002. His Master's work was done in association with Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT). He is the author of seventeen refereed journal papers, conference papers, and patents in the areas of networking, mobile computing, multimedia, computer music production, and VLSI CAD. His awards include the 2007 Webby Award in Mobile (Juried and Audience) for m.ask.com's handset and content adaptation front end, First Prize for the Veriplace Windows Mobile application at Microsoft Mobile Incubation Week 2009, the Best Paper Award at the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing in 1997 in Budapest, a 1995 California Fellowship in Microelectronics, and the 1994 Louis T. Rader Award.