Gary Sullivan (engineer)
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Gary J. Sullivan is an American electrical engineer who actively participated in the creation of the H.264/AVC video coding standard. He was one of the chairmen of the standardization committee (Joint Video Team (JVT)) and edited large portions of the standard.
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Gary J. Sullivan received B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering, Kentucky, in 1982 and 1983, respectively. He received Ph.D. and Engineer degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991.
He is the ITU-T Rapporteur/Chairman of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG), a co-chairman of the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and a co-chairman of the Joint Video Team (JVT), which is a joint project between the VCEG and MPEG organizations. He has led ITU-T VCEG (ITU-T Q.6/SG16) since 1996 and is also the ITU-T video liaison representative to MPEG. In MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11), in addition to his current service as a co-chair of its video work, he also served as the chairman of MPEG video from March 2001 to May 2002. In the JVT he was the JVT chairman for the development of the next generation H.264/AVC video coding standard and its fidelity-range extensions (FRExt), and is now its co-chairman for the development of the scalable video coding (SVC) extensions. He received the Technical Achievement award of the International Committee on Technology Standards (INCITS) in 2005 for his work on H.264/AVC and other video standardization topics.
He holds the position of video architect in the Core Media Processing Team in the Windows Digital Media division of Microsoft Corporation. At Microsoft he also designed and remains lead engineer for the DirectX® Video Acceleration API/DDI video decoding feature of the Microsoft Windows® operating system platform. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1999, he was the manager of communications core research at PictureTel Corporation, the quondam world leader in videoconferencing communication. He was previously a Howard Hughes Fellow and member of technical staff in the Advanced Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft Corporation, and a terrain-following radar system software engineer for Texas Instruments.
