about us
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Sikora [Co-founder and advisor]
Thomas
Sikora is professor and director of the Communication Systems Group (in
German: Fachgebiet Nachrichtenübertragung) at Technische
Universität
Berlin, Germany.
He
received the Dipl.-Ing. degree and Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical
engineering from Bremen University, Germany, in 1985 and 1989
respectively. In 1990 he joined Siemens Ltd. and Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia, as a project leader responsible for video
compression research activities in the Australian "Universal Broadband
Video Codec" consortium. Between 1994 and 2001 he was the director of
the “Interactive Media” Department at
Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI)
Berlin GmbH, Germany. Dr. Sikora is co-founder of 2SK Media
Technologies and Vis-a-Pix GmbH, two Berlin-based start-up companies
involved in research and development of audio and video signal
processing and compression technology.
Dr. Sikora
has been involved in international ITU and ISO standardization
activities as well as in several European research activities for a
number of years. As the chairman of the ISO-MPEG video group (Moving
Picture Experts Group), he was responsible for the development and
standardization of the MPEG video coding algorithms. He also served as
the chairman of the European COST 211ter video compression research
group. He frequently works as an industry consultant on issues related
to interactive digital audio and video. He is an appointed member of
the Advisory and Supervisory board of a number of German companies and
international research organizations.