Associated Chair of MPEG Video (Moving Pictures Experts Group - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11) Since 2018: Chair of the ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H) Awards 1998: SPIE VCIP Best Student Paper Award (together with Eckehard Steinbach, Peter Eisert and Bernd Girod) 2004: Fraunhofer Award (together with Detlev Marpe and Heiko Schwarz) 2004: ITG Award of the German Society for Information Technology (together with Detlev Marpe and Heiko Schwarz) 2006: The video coding work of the ITU-T led by Gary Sullivan and Thomas Wiegand jointly since 2000 was voted as the most influential area of the standardization work of the CCITT and ITU-T in their 50-year history 2008: Primetime Emmy Engineering Award (awarded to the JVT standards committee by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the High Profile of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, for which Wiegand served as associated rapporteur/co-chair, editor, and technical contributor) 2009: Paired Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards (one awarded to VCEG and one to MPEG by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard) 2009: Group Technical Achievement Award of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) for active contributions to video coding research and standardization activities 2009: Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (together with Heiko Schwarz and Detlev Marpe) 2009: Innovation Award of Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications 2010: Technology Award of Eduard Rhein Foundation (together with Jens-Rainer Ohm) 2011: Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to video coding and its standardization 2011: Best Paper Award of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) (together with Karsten Müller, Aljoscha Smolic, Kristina Dix, Philipp Merkle and Peter Kauff) 2011: Karl Heinz Beckurts Award (together with Heiko Schwarz and Detlev Marpe) 2012: IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award - IEEE Technical Field Award 2013: Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (together with Gary Sullivan, Jens-Rainer Ohm, and Woo-Jin Han) 2013: Best Journal Paper Award of the IEEE Communications Society MMTC (together with Patrick Ndjiki-Nya, Martin Koppel, Dimitar Doshkov, Haricharan Lakshman, Philipp Merkle and Karsten Müller) 2013: International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) Leadership Award 2013: Research Award for Technical Communication of Alcatel Lucent Foundation 2014: Best Paper Award of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) (together with P. Merkle, Y. Morvan, A. Smolic, D. Farin, K. Müller and P.H.N. de With) 2014: Richard