Iraj Sodagar

Iraj Sodagar is currently the Director of Media System Standards at Dolby Laboratories, focusing primarily on system standards and media authentication. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Sodagar has participated in, led, and managed various R&D projects, advanced architecture design, and product development. He has built and managed technical teams for R&D, software development, productization, and the standardization of various technologies. Dr. Sodagar has held several leadership positions and engagements in organizations such as ITU-T, JPEG, MPEG, AMQP, W3C, DVB, 3GPP, CTA WAVE, DLNA, and AOMedia. He has served as the chair of MPEG's DASH group, and he was a founder, and the President of the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF), which is now part of the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA). Currently, he remains active in MPEG, JVET, 3GPP SA4, and SVTA/DASH-IF.