Dr. Debargha Mukherjee received his M.S./Ph.D. degrees in ECE from University of California Santa Barbara in 1999. Since 2010 he has been with Google, where he is currently a Principal Engineer/Director leading next generation video codec research and development efforts. Prior to that he was with Hewlett Packard Laboratories, conducting research on video/image coding and processing. Debargha has made extensive research contributions in the area of image and video compression throughout his career, and was elected to IEEE Fellow for leadership in standard development for the video-streaming industry. He has (co-)authored more than 120 papers on various signal processing topics, and holds more than 200 US patents, with many more pending. He currently serves as a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, and as a member of the IEEE Visual Signal Processing and CommunicationsTechnical Committee (VSPC-TC).