Thomas Wiegand
- January 10, 2024
- Electrical Engineer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Thomas Wiegand |
| Occupation | Electrical Engineer |
| Date Of Birth | May 6, 1970(1970-05-06) |
| Age | 54 |
| Birthplace | Wismar |
| Country | Germany |
| Birth City | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| Horoscope | Gemini |
Thomas Wiegand Biography
| Name | Thomas Wiegand |
| Birthday | May 6 |
| Birth Year | 1970 |
| Place Of Birth | Wismar |
| Home Town | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| Birth Country | Germany |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Thomas Wiegand is one of the most popular and richest Electrical Engineer who was born on May 6, 1970 in Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Thomas Wiegand (born 6 May 1970 in Wismar) is a German electrical engineer who substantially contributed to the creation of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and H.265/MPEG-H HEVC video coding standards. For H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Wiegand was one of the chairmen of the Joint Video Team (JVT) standardization committee that created the standard and was the chief editor of the standard itself. He was also an active technical contributor to both standards. Wiegand also holds a chairmanship position in the ITU-T VCEG and previously in ISO/IEC MPEG standardization organizations. In July 2006, the video coding work of the ITU-T jointly led by Gary J. Sullivan and Wiegand for the preceding six years was voted as the most influential area of the standardization work of the CCITT and ITU-T in their 50-year history.
Thomas Wiegand Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Electrical Engineer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Thomas Wiegand is one of the richest Electrical Engineer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas Wiegand 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Thomas Wiegand was born in and spent his early life in East Germany, where he decided to make an apprenticeship as an electrician instead of studying, because everyone who wanted to go to the university had to serve for three years in the National People’s Army which he chose to avoid. After the “Wende” he started to study electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg, where he earned his Diplom in 1995. In the same year Wiegand stayed for some time as a guest scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2000 he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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