German-American computer scientist
Henning Schulzrinne is a German-American computer engineer who led research and development of the voice over IP network protocols.[ 1]
Life
Schulzrinne studied engineering management at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the German Technische Universität Darmstadt in Darmstadt , where he earned his Vordiplom (cf. Diplom ), then went on to earn his M.Sc. at the University of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst .
From 1992 to 1994 he worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories .
From 1994 to 1996 he worked in Berlin at the Forschungs-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (GMD FOKUS) , an institute of the now-defunct Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) , which became part of the Fraunhofer Society as Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems . He joined the faculty of the Computer Science department at Columbia University in 1998, and served as chair and Julian Clarence Levi Professor.
He served as a co-chair of the Internet Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society .
Schulzrinne is an editor of the Journal of Communications and Networks .
Schulzrinne has contributed to standards for voice over IP (VoIP). He co-designed the Session Initiation Protocol along with Mark Handley , the Real Time Streaming Protocol , the Real-time Transport Protocol , the General Internet Signaling Transport protocol,
part of the Next Steps in Signaling protocol suite.[ 3] h-index of 80.[ 4]
Schulzrinne was the chief technology officer (CTO) for the United States Federal Communications Commission , from December 19, 2011 to 2014.[ 5]
He was elected as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow in 2014 for contributions to the design of protocols, applications, and algorithms for Internet multimedia.[ 6]
In 2006, Schulzrinne was elevated to IEEE fellow for contributions to the design of protocols, applications, and algorithms for Internet multimedia.[ 7]
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