Michael J. Horowitz
Michael J. Horowitz (born January 2, 1964 in Ames, Iowa) is an American electrical engineer who actively participated in the creation of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and H.265/HEVC video coding standards. He is co-inventor of flexible macroblock ordering (FMO) and tiles, essential features in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and H.265/HEVC, respectively. He is Managing Partner of Applied Video Compression and has served on the Technical Advisory Boards of Vivox, Inc., Vidyo, Inc., and RipCode, Inc. Professional work. Horowitz also has contributed to the early productization of several video coding standards: