Henning G. Schulzrinne

Computer Science

Henning Schulzrinne architects, designs, models, and evaluates Internet protocols and applications, with a particular focus on real-time and embedded applications. He has been working on voice-over-Internet protocols that now power voice communications for modern mobile phones, enterprise, consumer, and public safety applications. 

  • Postdoc, Distributed Systems Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. September 1992 – February 1994
  • Chief Technology Officer, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), January 2017– 
  • Senior Advisor for Technology, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), September 2016–December 2016.
  • Technology Advisor, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), September 2014–August 2016.
  • Chief Technology Officer, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), January 2012– August 2014.
  • Engineering Fellow, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Sept. 2010–May 2011.
  • Professor (tenured), Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Electrical Engineering (joint appointment), Columbia University. August 1996–.
  • Department vice chair, 2002– 2003;
  • Department chair, 2004–2009.
  • Researcher & deputy department head, GMD Fokus (now Fraunhofer), Berlin, Germany. March 1994 - July 1996.
  • Lecturer at Technical University Berlin. Consultant, 1994-1996
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, January 1992 – June 1992.
  • Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, July 1988 – September 1992.
  • Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, January 1988 – July 1988.
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 1987 – July 1988.
  • IEEE
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • IEEE Internet award, 2016.
  • ACM Fellow, 2015.
  • WCNC 2015, “Intelligent Content Delivery over Wireless via SDN”, best paper award.
  • IEEE Communications Society Internet Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award, 2014.
  • Internet Hall of Fame, 2013
  • GREE 2013 best paper award (“Wimax in the classroom: Designing a cellular networking hands-on lab”)
  • 2011 Internet2 IDEA Award winner for ”Do You See What I See” tool (Kyung Hwa Kim, PhD Student)
  • Region 1 William Terry Award for Lifetime Distinguished Service to IEEE Region 1 (2010)
  • IPTComm 2010 best paper award (“Reliability and Relay Selection in Peer-to-Peer Communication Systems”)
  • IMSAA-08 3rd best paper award for A New SIP Event Package For Group Membership Management in Advanced Communications
  • VDE ITG Preis 2008 for Ubiquitous Device Personalization and Use: The Next Generation of IP Multimedia Communications
  • CATT lifetime innovation award (Brooklyn Polytech University) (2007)
  • Sputnik Innovator Award (2005)
  • IEEE Fellow (2005)
  • IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) Outstanding Service Award 2005
  • Internet Telephony 2004 Product of the Year
  • Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology (2004)
  • VON Pioneer Award, 2000
  • J. Janak and H. Schulzrinne, “Framework for rapid prototyping of distributed IoT applications powered by WebRTC,” in Proc. of IPTComm 2016, (Chicago, Illinois), Oct. 2016.
  • H. Nam, K. H. Kim, and H. Schulzrinne, “QoE matters more than QoS: why people stop watching cat videos,” in IEEE INFOCOM 2016 - The 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016), (San Francisco, USA), pp. 847–855, Apr. 2016.
  • M. Berman, P. Demeester, J. W. Lee, K. Nagaraja, M. Zink, D. Colle, D. K. Krishnappa, D. Raychaudhuri, H. Schulzrinne, I. Seskar, and S. Sharma, “Future internets escape the simulator,” Communications ACM, Vol. 58, pp. 78–89, May 2015.
  • W. Song, J. W. Lee, B. S. Lee, and H. Schulzrinne, “Finding 9-1-1 callers in tall buildings,” in 15th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2014), (Sydney, Australia), June 2014.
  • O. Boyaci, V. Beltran, and H. Schulzrinne, “Bridging communications and the physical world,” IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 35–43, 2012.
  • M. Papadopouli and H. Schulzrinne, Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks. Springer, Jan. 2009.
  • H. Schulzrinne and K. Arabshian, “Providing emergency services in Internet telephony,” IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 6, pp. 39–47, May 2002.
  • J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. R. Johnston, J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, and E. M. Schooler, “SIP: session initiation protocol,” RFC 3261, Internet Engineering Task Force, June 2002.
  • H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, and V. Jacobson, “RTP: a transport protocol for Real-Time applications,” RFC 3550, Internet Engineering Task Force, July 2003.