Karlheinz Brandenburg was born on June 20th 1954 in Erlangen, Germany.

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1 Karlheinz Brandenburg was born on June 20th 1954 in Erlangen, Germany. He received engineering degrees from Erlangen University in Electrical Engineering (1980) and in Mathematics (1982). In 1989 he obtained his Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Electrical Engineering for his work on digital audio coding and perceptual measurement techniques. The research results of his dissertation are the basis of MPEG 1 Layer 3 (mp3), MPEG 2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and most other modern audio compression schemes. During his time with AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, USA from 1989 to 1990 he worked on ASPEC, the basis for MPEG-1 Layer 3. In 1990, he returned to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to conduct further multimedia technology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen. Since 2000, Karlheinz Brandenburg has been a full professor at the Institute of Media Technology at the Ilmenau University of Technology. At the same time he is the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau. Karlheinz Brandenburg has memberships in different international standards committees and expert panels. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Furthermore, he is a member of MPEG. During his career Brandenburg has been Together with Mark Kahrs he published the book Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. Brandenburg has received a number of awards including the AES silver medal award for his continued contributions and leadership to the art and science of perceptual audio coding (1998), the German Internet Award NEO (2001) and the IEEE Engineering Excellence Award (2000). Together with two colleagues he received the German Future Award for their work on the mp3 in Furthermore, he was honored with the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronic Award for major contributions to digital audio source coding in May In December 2006, Brandenburg received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Moreover the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) elected Karlheinz Brandenburg to one of the hall of fame of thinkers through the ages. In 2007, he was elected together with Prof. Dieter Seitzer and Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser into the CE Hall of Fame. The award, initialized by the Consumer Electronics Association, of audio coding he received an honorary Ph.D. degree from the universities Koblenz-Landau and Lüneburg in Germany. As his most recent distinction he was inducted into the German Research Hall of Fame by the German business journal manager magazin for his outstanding contributions to the development of Germany as a research location. In 2009 he was also appointed as Ambassador of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. In 2011 Brandenburg gave the distinguished Heyser memorial lecture at the AES 130 th Convention. In 2014, Prof. Brandenburg was inducted by the Internet Society (ISOC) into the Internet Hall of Fame as an innovator because of his important role in developing the mp3 format and the impact on this development to advance the Internet s reach.

2 Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT Chair of Electronic Media Technology at the Institute of Media Technology at Ilmenau University of Technology Director of the Institute for Media and Mobile Communications at the Ilmenau University of Technology Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg Phone: Fax: Studies/academic and professional milestones: since 2012 since 2004 since 2000 Director of the Institute for Media and Mobile Communications at the Ilmenau University of Technology Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, Ilmenau Chair of Electronic Media Technology at the Institute of Media Technology at the Ilmenau University of Technology Director of the Institute of Media Technology at the Ilmenau University of Technology Head of Fraunhofer Working Group for Electronic Media AEMT, Ilmenau 1993 Head of Audio/Multimedia department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen 1989 Postdoctoral member of technical staff, Signal Processing Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA 1989 Received Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Electrical Engineering for his work on digital audio coding and perceptual measurement techniques. The research results of his dissertation are the basis of MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3), MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and most other modern audio compression schemes. Studies of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg 1/3

3 Main research: audio coding perceptual measurement techniques psychoacoustics analysis of audio- and video signals Memberships: Fellow of Audio Engineering Society (AES) Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Member of Fernseh- und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft e.v. (FKTG) Member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.v. (DEGA) Faculty Advisor of AES Student Section Ilmenau e.v. Member of Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig Chairman of the advisory board of IOSONO GmbH Member of the committee of investment of Private Equity Thüringen GmbH & Co. KG Member of the acatech Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften Awards: 2014 Prof. Brandenburg was inducted by the Internet Society (ISOC) into the Internet Hall of Fame as an innovator because of his important role in developing the mp3 format and the impact on this development to advance the Internet s reach 2011 Distinguished Heyser memorial lecturer at AES 130th Convention 2009 Election into the German Research Hall of Fame initiated by the German business journal manager magazin for his outstanding contributions to the development of Germany as a research location Honorary Ph.D. degree of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg for his important role in the Ambassador of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation Honorary Ph.D. degree of the University Koblenz-Landau for his outstanding research work in 2007 The consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has elected Karlheinz Brandenburg, Heinz Gerhäuser and Dieter Seitzer representing a team of Fraunhofer researchers into the CE Hall of Fame for their work on the mp3 format 2006 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) elected Karlheinz Brandenburg to one of admitted him to the Hall of Fame featuring the leading inventors, scientists and standardizers 2/3

4 2004 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, for major contributions to digital audio source coding Thuringian Research Award (Thüringer Forschungspreis) 2003, category Applied Research together with Dr. Sandra Brix and Dr.-Ing. Thomas Sporer Sputnik Innovator Award 2003 Publications Award of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), for the best paper of the year 2000/2001; PEAQ the ITU Standard for the Objective Measurement of Perceived Audio Quality, together with John G. Beerends, Roland Bitto, Catherine Colomes, Bernhard Feiten, Michael Keyhl, Christian Schmidmer, Thomas Sporer, Gerhard Stoll, Thilo Thiede, William C. Treurniet 2002 ISO/IEC : 1997-Award / Information Technology Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information Part 7: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), together with Editor in the development of International Standard) for works on MPEG-2 AAC 2001 German Internet Award NEO 2000 German Future Award 2000 (Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2000) together with his colleagues Harald Popp and Bernhard Grill for their work on the mp3 format IEEE Engineering Excellence Award The Region 10th Chapters of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Hongkong, China 1998 Silver Medal Award of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) for continued contributions and leadership to the art and science of perceptual audio coding 3/3

5 Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg has been a driving force behind some of today s most innovative digital audio technology, notably the mp3 and MPEG audio standards. He is acclaimed for pioneering work in digital audio coding. His honors include the AES Silver Medal, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronic Award, the German Future Award, which he shared with his colleagues and the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Furthermore he is member in the Hall of Fame of the Consumer Electronics Association and of the International Electrotechnical Commission. In 2009, he was appointed as Ambassador of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. In April 2014, Prof. Brandenburg was inducted as an innovator into the Internet Hall of Fame. Dr. Brandenburg holds about 100 patents. He is a professor at the Institute for Media Technology at Ilmenau University of Technology and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau, Germany.