Iraj Sodagar
Director Of Media Standards at Dolby Laboratories
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolIraj Sodagar is a media standards architect and strategist with over two decades of leadership shaping multimedia coding and delivery, currently serving as Director of Media Standards at Dolby Laboratories. He chaired and shepherded the MPEG-DASH and CMAF standards from inception to completion, founded and leads the DASH Industry Forum, and serves as Executive Director of AOMedia—roles that blend technical authorship with cross-industry consensus building. His background spans deep technical R&D and product-alignment work at Microsoft, Tencent America, and startups, giving him rare fluency across standards, cloud delivery, codecs (including AV1), and hybrid broadcast/broadband systems. Iraj also pursues applied interests in VR/AR content workflows, efficient cloud media pipelines, and AI-driven multimedia processing, often bridging academic rigor from his PhD training with pragmatic industry architectures. Colleagues know him for turning complex multi-stakeholder challenges into deployable specifications and cross-company strategies that materially shaped how internet video is encoded and delivered today.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (40)
mss10
drm10
smooth-streaming10
mse10
playback10
html5-video10
eme10
mpeg-dash10
javascript9
webrtc9
points9
mpeg9
xml-schema7
carbon-emissions7
xsd7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
irajs/NBMP
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 8 months
MPEGGroup/NBMP
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years 2 months
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