Karlheinz Brandenburg

Karlheinz Brandenburg (born June 20, 1954, in Erlangen, Germany) is an audio engineer and is best 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.

External links

• BBC article