Michael J. Horowitz

Michael J. Horowitz (born January 2, 1964, in Ames, Iowa) is an American electrical engineer whose contributions to video coding standardization and early integration of newly minted standards into video products have facilitated the widespread commercial adoption of the H.264|AVC, H.264 SVC, H.265|HEVC, and AV1 video coding standards. He is co-inventor of flexible macroblock ordering (FMO) and tiles, essential features in H.264|AVC and H.265|HEVC, respectively.