Stefan Winkler

Stefan Winkler holds an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, and a Ph.D. degree from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is currently Chief Scientist at Cheetah Technologies. He co-founded Genista in 2001, which was later acquired by Symmetricom. He has also held assistant professor positions at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Winkler has published more than 60 papers and is the author of the book “Digital Video Quality”. He also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He has been an active contributor to the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) since it was founded in 1997 and is currently co-chair of the QoE Metrics Activity Group of the Video Services Forum (VSF).