Karlheinz Brandenburg

Karlheinz Brandenburg born 1954 in Erlangen, Germany is most known for inventing the audio compression scheme MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as MP3.

• 1980 Master of Science in Electrical engineering
• 1982 Master of Science in Mathematics
• 1989 Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical engineering
• 1989 - 1990 worked at AT&T Bell Labs, USA
• 1990 returned to Erlangen to research on audio coding techniques
• 1993 appointed head at the Fraunhofer Institute für Integrierte Schaltungen[?] (Fraunhofer IIS-A)

He also authored a book called Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. He currently holds 24 different patents on audio coding techniques, with several more pending.

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