Henning Schulzrinne
Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill and an associate department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin), before joining the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at Columbia University. He served as chair of Computer Science Department from 2004 to 2009, and as Engineering Fellow, Technical Advisor, and Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2010 until 2017. Protocol standards co-developed by Schulzrinne, including RTP, RTSP and SIP, are now used by almost all Internet telephony and multimedia applications. He is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE.
Biography current as of September 25, 2018