Background
Varga, Imre was born on February 24, 1959, in Budapest, Hungary. Arrived in Germany, 1990. Son of Imre Varga and Klara Wiesmeyer.
Varga, Imre was born on February 24, 1959, in Budapest, Hungary. Arrived in Germany, 1990. Son of Imre Varga and Klara Wiesmeyer.
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Technology University Budapest, 1982. Postgraduate diploma, Technology University Budapest, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, Technology University Budapest, 1985.
Assistant professor Technology University Budapest, 1984-1987, senior lecturer, 1989-1990. Fellow Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, 1988. Research and development engineer Barco-EMT, Lahr, Germany, 1990-1994.
Project leader, technical advisory Thomson Multimedia, Hannover, Germany, 1994-1997. Research & Development lab manager for baseband signal processing Siemens AG, Munich, since 1997. Chairman speech coding group ITU-T Q16/15 International Standardization Body, 1995-1997. Later he became head of the Multimedia R&D Department, with a focus on speech and multimedia applications. Early in 2009 he joined Qualcomm Inc. working on speech coding and related standardization.
Dr. Varga participates in standardization groups for speech coding and multimedia applications in ITU-T SG16 and SG12, 3GPP. He serves as Director in the Board of IMTC, he is author of a number of technical papers and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Rapporteur for The Automated Meter Reading-World Bank, 3GPP SA4 International Standardization Body, since 1999. Co-chairman voice coder AG IMTC International Industry Forum, since 1999.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Hungarian Telecommunications Association (Pollak-Virag-Dij 1989).
Married Judit Inacsovszky, December 27, 1987.