Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction in physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1986.
Master of Surgery degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, New York, 1988.
Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998.
He is co-inventor of flexible macroblock ordering (FMO), and tiles, essential features in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and H.265/HEVC, respectively. Horowitz also has contributed to the early productization of several video coding standards facilitating commercial adoption of those standards including: 2000 – At Polycom, architect and developer of the first commercially available in-product implementation of macroblock-adaptive multiple reference frames (H263 Annex U). Macroblock-adaptive multiple reference frames has become a mainstay in subsequent video coding standards.
2003 – At Polycom, architect and lead engineer of the team that produced the first commercially available in-product implementation of H.264/AVC. 2008 – At Vidyo, architect and lead engineer of the team that developed the first commercially available in-product implementation of H.264 SVC 2012 – At eBrisk Video, architect and lead engineer of the team that developed one of the first commercially available implementations of H.265/HEVC. He is currently on the Technical Advisory Board of Vivox, Incorporated. and has served on the Technical Advisory Boards of Vidyo, Incorporated., Hackensack, New Jersey, United States of America and RipCode, Dallas, Texas, United States of America. Ph.
2001-2002 – VCEG Chair, Ad hoc Group on H.26L Complexity Reduction 2002-2003 – JVT Chair, Ad hoc Group on H.26L Complexity Reduction 2002-2003 – JVT Chair, Ad hoc Group on Robustness 2008-2010 – VCEG Chair, Ad hoc Group on Computational Efficiency 2011-2012 – JCT-Venture capital Chair, Ad hoc Group on High-level Parallelism.
