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Sanjeev Mehrotra

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Sanjeev Mehrotra is a Prinicipal Research SDE in the Communications and Collaboration Systems group in Microsoft Research.  Prior to joining Microsoft Research, he was the development manager of the Audio Codecs and DSP group in the Core Media Processing Technology team at Microsoft which did the work on all the audio and speech codecs and audio processing technology shipped in various products such as Windows, Office Communicator, Windows Mobile, Xbox, and Zune.  Before that, he was the development lead for the Windows Media Audio codec and prior to that he was a developer performing research on various audio/video/screen codec and processing technology.

He is the primary inventor of version 2 of the Windows Media Screen codec and the primary inventor of the low bitrate extensions to the Windows Media Professional audio codec which is amongst the best sounding audio codecs even at very low bitrates.  He has also shipped numerous technologies related to media processing, media delivery, and error correction codes.

He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1996 and 2000 respectively.  In 1996, he joined in the formation of a startup company, VXtreme, a pioneering company in streaming media, where he worked on researching and devloping video codecs.  VXtreme was acquired by Microsoft in 1997.

Sanjeev is an author on numerous publications and is an inventor on over 40 US patent applications out of which more than 20 have been granted.

His current research interests are in media compression, delivery, comminications, and coding, as well as networking protocols for delay sensitive interactive media and software applications.

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