Dr.-Ing. Cornelius Hellge

Cornelius Hellge is heading the Multimedia Communications Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute since 2015. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Media Technology from the Ilmenau University of Technology in 2006 and the Dr.-Ing. degree with distinction (summa cum laude) from the Berlin University of Technology in 2013.

In 2014 he was Visiting Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group of Prof. Medard.

He is responsible for various scientific as well as industry-funded projects. Together with his team, he is regularly contributing to 3GPP (RAN1, RAN2, SA4), MPEG, IETF, JCT-VC and JVET.

He has authored more than 60 journal and conference papers, predominantly in the area of video communication and mobile networks, he received the best paper award from the IEEE ICCE’14 conference and he holds more than 40 internationally issued patents and patent applications in these fields.

His current research interest is in development of new formats for volumetric video for mixed reality, system integration of the new video codec VVC, and the further evolution of the 5G standard.