Gary J. Sullivan
Multimedia compression and standardization technologist
- Role
- Director, Video Research and Standards at Dolby Laboratories
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gary J. Sullivan
Chair and co-chair of various video and image coding standardization activities in ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC MPEG, ISO/IEC JPEG, and in their joint collaborative teams since 1996. Since 2021 became the chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 29, the organization that oversees JPEG and MPEG.Led the development of the Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard (ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14•••10), the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard (ITU-T H.265 | ISO/IEC 23008-2), the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard (ITU-T H.266 | ISO/IEC 23090-3), the various extensions of those standards, and several other standardization projects. While at Microsoft, was the creator and lead designer of the DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) video decoding feature of the Windows operating system.The team efforts that Sullivan has led have been recognized by three Emmy Awards. He has received the SMPTE Digital Processing Medal, the Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, the Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award, two Trans. CSVT Best Paper awards, the INCITS Technical Excellence Award, the IMTC Leadership Award, and the University of Louisville J. B. Speed Professional Award in Engineering.Fellow of the ACM, SMPTE, and SPIE.
Experience
Director, Video Research and Standards
Apr 2023 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Education
University of Louisville
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Engineer's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
University of Louisville
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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