Henning Schulzrinne | |
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.jpg) Schulzrinne at theSIPNOC 2012 | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | GermanTU Darmstadt (BA) University of Cincinnati (MS) University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD 1993) |
| Known for | Voice over IP Session Initiation Protocol |
| Awards | ACM Fellow (2014) Internet Hall of Fame Innovators (2013)[1] IEEE Internet Award (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Internet multimedia |
| Institutions | Columbia University AT&T Bell Laboratories |
| Doctoral advisor | James Kurose[2] |
| Website | www |
Henning Schulzrinne is a German-American computer engineer who led research and development of thevoice over IP network protocols.[1]
Schulzrinne studiedengineering management at theDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the GermanTechnische Universität Darmstadt inDarmstadt, where he earned hisVordiplom (cf.Diplom), then went on to earn his M.Sc. at theUniversity of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst.
From 1992 to 1994 he worked forAT&T Bell Laboratories.
From 1994 to 1996 he worked inBerlin at theForschungs-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (GMD FOKUS), an institute of the now-defunctGesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD), which became part of theFraunhofer Society asFraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems. He joined the faculty of theComputer Science department atColumbia University in 1998, and served as chair andJulian Clarence Levi Professor.
He served as a co-chair of theInternet Technical Committee of theIEEE Communications Society.Schulzrinne is an editor of theJournal of Communications and Networks.
Schulzrinne has contributed to standards forvoice over IP (VoIP). He co-designed theSession Initiation Protocol along withMark Handley, theReal Time Streaming Protocol, theReal-time Transport Protocol, the General Internet Signaling Transport protocol,part of theNext Steps in Signaling protocol suite.[3] Overall, as of March 7, 2024, his publications have been cited over 65,000 times, and he has anh-index of 95.[4]
Schulzrinne was the chief technology officer (CTO) for the United StatesFederal Communications Commission, from December 19, 2011 to 2014.[5]
He was elected as anAssociation 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 toIEEE fellow for contributions to the design of protocols, applications, and algorithms for Internet multimedia.[7]
