Theile Medal of the German Television and Cinema Technology Society 2015: ITU150 Award (the other ITU 150 awards went to Bill Gates, Robert E. Kahn, Mark I. Krivocheev, Martin Cooper, and Ken Sakamura) 2016: Elected member of the German National Academy of Engineering (Acatech) 2017: Primetime Emmy Engineering Award (awarded to the JCT-VC standards committee of VCEG and MPEG by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the H.265/MPEG-H HEVC standard, for which Wiegand served as associated rapporteur of VCEG and technical contributor) 2018: Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) 2019: Best Poster Presentation Paper Award, Picture Coding Symposium, Ningbo, China (PCS 2019) (together with Wang-Q Lim, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe) 2022: EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal (together with R. Reisenhofer, S. Bosse, G. Kutyniok) Other positions held 1993–1994: Visiting Researcher, Kobe University, Japan 1995: Visiting Scholar, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S. 1997–1998: Visiting Researcher, Stanford University, California, USA 1997–1998: Consultant to 8x8 Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA 2006–2011: Member of technical advisory board, Vidyo, Inc., Hackensack, New Jersey, USA 2006–2008: Member of technical advisory board, Stream Processors, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, USA 2007–2009: Consultant, Skyfire, Inc. (acquired by Opera Software ASA), Mountain View, California, USA 2011–2012: Visiting Professor, Stanford University, USA External links References 1970 births Living people People from Wismar People from Bezirk Rostock Engineers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin Fellow Members of the IEEE Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Primetime Emmy Engineering Award winners