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 seminal work in digital audio coding and perceptual measurement techniques, wave field synthesis (WFS) and psycho-acoustics.
An IEEE Senior Member, Dr. Brandenburg serves on the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Technical Committee on Audio and Electro-acoustics and is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). His honors include the IEEE Region 10 Engineering Excellence Award, the AES Silver Medal, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronic Award and the German Future Award, which he shared with his colleagues. The author of numerous articles and co-editor of "Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics", Dr. Brandenburg holds 25 patents, with several more pending.
He is professor and head of the Institute for Media Technology at Ilmenau Technical University, and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, both in Ilmenau, Germany.
