Board of Directors
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Stockhammer, CEO and Founder
Thomas Stockhammer has received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree from the Munich University of Technology, Germany and was visiting researcher at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY and at the University of San Diego, California (UCSD). He has published more than 120 conference and journal papers, is member of different technical program committees and holds about 50 patents. He regularly participates and contributes to different standardization activities, e.g. JVT, ITU-T, IETF, 3GPP, and DVB and has co-authored more than 200 technical contributions. He was chairing the video adhoc group of 3GPP SA4 and is now the chair of the DVB IPTV Application Layer FEC and Content Download System Task Force and also acts as rapporteur/editor of several standardization documents. He is also co-founder and CEO of Novel Mobile Radio (NoMoR) Research, a company developing simulation and emulation platforms of future mobile networks such as HSxPA, WiMaX, MBMS, and LTE as well as Mobile and IPTV-related matters. The company also provides consulting services in the respective areas. After his work as research assistant at the Munich University of technology until 2004, he was working for 2 years as a research and development consultant for Siemens Mobile Devices, later BenQ mobile in Munich, Germany. Since June 2006, he is consulting for Digital Fountain, Inc, in research and standardization matters for CDPs, IPTV, and mobile multimedia communication. His research interests include video transmission, cross-layer and system design, forward error correction, content delivery protocols, rate-distortion optimization, information theory, and mobile communications.
Dr.-Ing. Ingo Viering, CEO and Founder
Before founding Nomor Research, Ingo was working for Siemens as a consultant in all air interface related areas. Located directly on the interface between research and reality, he coordinated many collaborations between universities and Siemens. Furthermore, he acted as backoffice for the 3GPP standardization where, among others, he was the driving force for several work item launches. He was also involved in detailed early evaluation of alternative technologies such as Flash-OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and others. He is still consulting Nokia Siemens Networks in research, standardization, as well as strategic matters. Ingo got his Dr.-Ing. from University of Ulm in 2003. During this time, he collaborated with Siemens in particular on Smart Antenna technologies. He spent a research stay with the “Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW)”, where he conducted early measurements of the MIMO channel. He graduated 1999 at Darmstadt University of Technology. He has filed around 40 patents and published more than 30 scientific papers. Since 2007 he is Senior Lecturer at Munich University of Technology.
Eiko Seidel, CTO
Eiko Seidel received his Electrical Engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Information Technology at the University of Technology Dresden in 1995. After a temporal employment at Honeywell Inc., Arizona in the field of Satellite Communication, he joined Panasonic R&D Center Germany GmbH in the field of UMTS research and led the Mobile Radio Network research team. Eiko has been involved in many internal projects and EU research projects and contributed actively to UMTS standardisation since the establishment of 3GPP, where he attended different Radio Access Network working groups mainly RAN1 and RAN2. Besides his numerous 3GPP contributions, he has published several articles at international conferences and in magazines, and has filed over 50 patents and patent applications in the area of wireless access networks, some of those deem to be essential to UMTS, CDMA2000 and WiMAX. He is currently engaged in research on future mobile communication systems such as 3GPP LTE, specific topics include radio resource management, scheduling, hybrid ARQ, QoS as well as network architectures for all IP networks.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Ing. E.h. Joachim Hagenauer,
Board Member and Founder
Joachim Hagenauer received his degrees from Ohm Polytechnic and the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he served as an assistant professor. He held a postdoctoral fellowship position at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, a one year visiting position year at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill, and a research position at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, since 1990 as the director of the DLR Institute for Communications Technology. Since April 1993 he is a full professor for Communications Engineering at the Munich University of Technology (TUM) and since 2002 a Member of the Bavarian Academy of Science. He holds more than 30 patents in the field of information technology. Professor Hagenauer is a Fellow of the IEEE, the recipient of the 1996 “E.H. Armstrong-Award” of the IEEE Communications Society COMSOC, the “Maier-Leibnitz-Medal”, the “Best Teaching Award” of the TUM Student Association and of the IEEE 2003 “Alexander Graham Bell Medal”. He received a Honorary Doctorate (Dr. Ing. E.h.) in 2006 from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. In 2001 he served as the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society being a long year member of the Board of Governors. The German equivalent of IEEE the VDE honored him in 2006 with its highest award, the "Ehrenring". For more information please check the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) at Munich University of Technology. He retired from his teaching duties at TUM allowing him to spend more time as a NOMOR Board member.