Michael J. Horowitz

Education

• A.B. degree with distinction in physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1986.
• M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, New York, 1988.
• Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998.

  Professional work

• 2000 – At Polycom, architect and developer of the first commercially available in-product implementation of macroblock-adaptive multiple reference frames. Macroblock-adaptive multiple reference frames has become a mainstay in subsequent video coding standards.
• 2003 – At Polycom, architect and lead engineer of the team that produced the first commercially available in-product implementation of H.264/AVC.
• 2008 – At Vidyo, architect and lead engineer of the team that developed the first commercially available in-product implementation of H.264 SVC
• 2012 – At eBrisk Video, architect and lead engineer of the team that developed one of the first commercially available implementations of H.265/HEVC.

  Standardization

• 2001-2002 – VCEG Chair, Ad hoc Group on H.26L Complexity Reduction
• 2002-2003 – JVT Chair, Ad hoc Group on H.26L Complexity Reduction
• 2002-2003 – JVT Chair, Ad hoc Group on Robustness
• 2008-2010 – VCEG Chair, Ad hoc Group on Computational Efficiency
• 2011-2012 – JCT-VC Chair, Ad hoc Group on High-level Parallelism