Emmanuel Thomas is Chief Multimedia Technology Expert at Xiaomi where he is technical lead for media delivery in 3GPP SA4 and MPEG standardisation groups since 2021. After receiving his master’s degree in signal processing in 2010, he has been involved in media streaming and video coding research since then. His research work ranges from XR experiences, network assisted media streaming to enriched video experiences on mobile devices. Since 2013, he is an active member of the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG), for which he has held several chair and editor positions for standards such as MPEG-DASH, ISOBMFF, and more recently the MPEG-I standards Video Decoding Interface and Scene Description. Emmanuel is also a regular delegate in the 3GPP SA4 standardisation group and acts as rapporteur of the technical specification 5G Media Capabilities for AR services. He is co-author of more than 60 patents as well as several journal and conference papers.