ITU-T Workshop
Video and Image Coding and Applications
(VICA)
BIO
Geneva, 22-23 July 2005
Stephan Wenger
Nokia/Finland
Session:
1: Network platforms
Title of
Presentation:
Video and image coding in mobile networks
Dr. Stephan Wenger, born in 1965, is a Principal Scientist at the Nokia Research Center, working
on visual coding and transport technologies and standards. He also holds a position as an Adjunct
Professor at the Technical University Tampere, Finland. Prior joining Nokia, Dr. Wenger acted as
Assistant Professor in the EECS department of the Technical University Berlin. He also, as an
independent consultant, advised a number of companies including Teles AG, Polycom, Siemens,
Microsoft, and Intel. He serves on the Board of Directors of UB Video Inc, and on several advisory
boards.
Dr. Wenger’s interests are in protocol design and media coding. He has authored or co-authored
journal and conference publications, standardization contributions, Internet RFCs, and book
chapters. He is also active in the IETF and recently in 3GPP. Dr. Wenger received the Dipl.-Inf.
and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Computer Science from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 1989
and 1995, respectively