Thomas Wiegand is a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and is jointly heading the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany. Since 1995, he has been an active participant in standardization for multimedia with many successful submissions to ITU-T and ISO/IEC. In 2000, he was appointed as the Associated Rapporteur of ITU-T VCEG and from 2005-2009, he was Co-Chair of ISO/IEC MPEG Video. The projects that he co-chaired for the development of the H.264/MPEG-AVC standard have been recognized by an ATAS Primetime Em-my Engineering Award and a pair of NATAS Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. In 2014, Thomson Reuters named him in their list of "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" as one of the most cited researchers in his field. For his research in video coding and transmission, in video coding and transmission, he has received numerous awards including the ITU150 Award.
