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Industry Fellow: Thomas Stockhammer

I am very pleased and happy to be selected as SVTA Industry Fellow. DASH-IF was founded to make the ISO standard on Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) a commercial success and to provide a technology for global media and TV distribution over the Internet, traditional broadcast systems and mobile – and we seemingly succeeded. On behalf of Qualcomm, I had been involved from day one since 2009 in the development of the standard and the foundation of DASH-IF in 2012, leading the editing work in ISO MPEG and 3GPP as well chairing the DASH-IF Technical Working Group. The recent DASH-IF transition to being a member of the SVTA family is rewarding and exciting. DASH remains the only open global standard addressing many diverse markets. Nevertheless, most rewarding is the continuous collaboration with excellent people, many of whom are now friends. Looking forward to more good years to come in the SVTA community.

About Thomas

Dr. Thomas Stockhammer joined Qualcomm in 2014 and now acts as Senior Director Technical Standards. In his different roles, he coauthored more than 250 research publications, more than 250 patents and 1000s of standards contributions. He is the active and has board, leadership and rapporteur positions in 3GPP, DVB, MPEG, IETF, ATSC, CTA, ETSI, Metaverse Standards Forum, SVTA and the DASH-Industry Forum in multimedia communication, TV-distribution, 5G broadcast, content delivery protocols, immersive media representation, adaptive streaming, XR and the Metaverse. Among others, he leads MPEG-I Scene Description efforts, SVTA DASH-IF working group, 3GPP Video and XR activities as well as DVB-5G activities. He received several awards for work on DASH, media delivery and 5G Broadcast, namely the INCITS Technical Excellence Award 2013, the 3GPP Excellence award 2017, the CTA Technology & Standards Achievement Award 2019 and 2023, ISO/IEC Excellence Award 2024, the DASH-IF Leadership Award 2024, the IEC 1906 Award 2024, the SVTA Industry Fellow award as well as an Emmy Inventor Award for in 2022. He is regular speaker and Program Committee Member at events such as IBC, DVB World, Mile High Video, MWS or BroadThinking. In 2023, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to media delivery and video streaming standards.

Industry Accomplishments

Thomas is well known and regarded in the streaming industry. His accomplishments include:

Published more than 250 conference and journal papers
Contributed to more than 300 patents with relevance to standards
Contributor, chairman and rapporteur in different standardization activities such as JVT, ITU-T, IETF, 3GPP, DASH-IF, ATSC, MPEG, CTA, ETSI, 5G-MAG, and DVB.
Developed parts of the H.264/AVC, DASH, enTV, ROUTE, Raptor and RaptorQ, enTV, 5G Media Streaming, 5G Extended Reality, MPEG-I, and CMAF.

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