Thomas Stockhammer received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees from the Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany. After acting as cofounder and CEO of Novel Mobile Radio (NoMoR) Research for 10 years, he joined Qualcomm in 2014 as Director Technical Standards. In his different roles he has co-authored more than 200 research publications and more than 100 patents.

In his day job, he is the active and has leadership and rapporteur positions in 3GPP, DVB, MPEG, IETF, ATSC, CTA, VR Industry Forum and the DASH-Industry Forum in the area of multimedia communication, TV-distribution, content delivery protocols, virtual reality and adaptive streaming.