Next Generation Video Communications

A one day symposium presented by
The Georgia Centers for Advanced Telecommunications Technology

Ajay Luthra Motorola

Ajay Luthra received his B.E. (Hons) from BITS, Pilani, India in 1975, M.Tech. in Communications Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1977 and Ph.D. from Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania in 1981.

From 1981 to 1984 he was a Senior Engineer at Interspec Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was involved in applications of Digital Signal and Image Processing for Bio-medical applications. From 1984 to 1995 he was at Tektronix, Beaverton, Oregon, where from 1985 - 1990 he was manager of Digital Signal and Picture Processing Group and from 1990 - 1995 he was Director of Communications / Video Systems Research Lab.

He is currently a Senior Director in Advanced Technology Group at Motorola, Broadband Communications Sector (formerly General Instrument) in San Diego, California, where he is involved in advanced development work in the areas of Digital Video Compression & Processing, Streaming Video, Interactive TV, Cable Head-End system design and Advanced Set Top Box architectures.

He has been an active member of MPEG committee for the last ten years where he has chaired several technical sub-groups. He is currently also an associate rapporteur/co-chair of Joint Video Team (JVT) consisting of ISO/MPEG and ITU-T/VCEG experts working on developing next generation of video coding standard known as MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC / H.264. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2000-2002) and also a Guest Editor for its Special Issue on Streaming Video, March 2001.