Christian Timmerer
Head of Department | Full Professor @ Universität Klagenfurt | Co-founder @ Bitmovin
Head of Department at Universität Klagenfurt
Christian Timmerer received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in January 2003 and his Ph.D. (Dr.techn.) in June 2006 (for research on the adaptation of scalable multimedia content in streaming and constraint environments), and Habilitation in June 2014 (for adaptive media streaming over HTTP and quality of sensory experience) from the Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt. He joined the AAU in 1999 (as a system administrator) and is currently a Full Professor at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) within the Multimedia Communication Group. His research interests include immersive multimedia communication, streaming, adaptation, Quality of Experience, and Sensory Experience. He was the general chair of WIAMIS 2008, QoMEX 2013, and MMSys 2016 and has participated in several EC-funded projects, notably DANAE, ENTHRONE, P2P-Next, ALICANTE, SocialSensor, COST IC1003 QUALINET, and ICoSOLE. He also participated in ISO/MPEG work for several years, notably in the area of MPEG-21, MPEG-M, MPEG-V, and MPEG-DASH where he also served as standard editor. In 2012 he cofounded Bitmovin (https://bitmovin.com/) to provide professional services around MPEG-DASH where he holds the position of the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO). Follow him on https://bsky.app/profile/timmerer.com and subscribe to his blog http://blog.timmerer.com.
Specialties: immersive multimedia communication; multimedia adaptation; multimedia streaming; Quality of Experience; MPEG standardization;
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Chairs the IT administration group responsible for designing/maintaining the IT services of the Department. Member of the Faculty of Technical Sciences Teaching: operating systems; computer architecture; network and network programming; multimedia content adaptation; seminars; individual student projects. General Chair of WIAMIS 2008 and PC chair of STreaming Day 2008 EC-funded projects: FP6-IST-ENTHRONE (2006-2008, WP leader and chair of End-to-End QoS Management Committee) and FP7-ICT-P2P-Next (2008-2012) Expert member of the FP6-IST-AXMEDIS User Group and external expert board member. ISO/MPEG expert: Head of the Austrian delegation; coordinator of several core experiments; co-chair of several ad-hoc groups; editor for Parts 7 and 8 of MPEG-21, Digital Item Adaptation and Reference Software (ISO/IEC certificates received).
Received the Ph.D. (Dr.techn.) in June 2006. Currently chairs the IT administration group responsible for designing/maintaining the IT services of the Department. Teaching: operating systems; computer architecture; network and network programming; distributed systems; introduction to Java programming; seminars; individual student projects. Published more than 20 papers (incl. book chapters and tutorials); chair of the “Special Session on UMA" (WIAMIS 2006) and the “Workshop on End-to-End QoS for UMA” (AXMEDIS2006) EC-funded projects: IST-DANAE (2004-2006, partner) and IST-ENTHRONE (2006-2008, WP leader and chair of End-to-End QoS Management Committee) Expert member of the IST-AXMEDIS User Group and external expert board member. ISO/MPEG expert: Head of the Austrian delegation; coordinator of several core experiments; co-chair of several ad-hoc groups; editor for Parts 7 and 8 of MPEG-21, Digital Item Adaptation and Reference Software (ISO/IEC certificates received).
I was responsible for maintainance of Solaris-/Linux-/Windows-based server and client network including Web, FTP, DNS, Email, DHCP, Printer, Samba file sharing, database, etc. services. Furthermore, I was responsible for purchasing the IT equipment for the whole department.
I was part of the development team that developed a first version of a system (servers & networks) monitoring tool on-top of Nagios (formerly known as Netsaint). I was responsible for implementing the base layer of the monitoring and the integration/testing of software components coming from third-party developers. I was further responsible for deploying this solution to other Infineon sites including those in Germany (Düsseldorf), France (Sofia Antipolis), UK (Bristol), and Singapore.
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September 2012 issue of IEEE Computer
Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval
