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Osama Alshaykh, Ph.D, is vice president of technology at PacketVideo Corporation. He joined PacketVideo in 1998 as one of the original members of the engineering team and helped CEO Jim Brailean found the company to develop new generations of wireless multimedia devices. Mr. Alshaykh is responsible for exploring new architectures and synchronizing the technical direction of the company with new developments in silicon and devices. Prior to joining PacketVideo, Mr. Alshaykh worked as a member of technical staff with the Multimedia Group at Rockwell Science Center in Palo Alto. He has been actively involved in the development of ISO, MPEG-4 and JPEG-2000 video and image standards. Mr. Alshaykh received a bachelor of science with honors in electrical engineering from the University of Jordan, Amman, a master of science from Iowa State University, Ames, and a doctorate of philosophy from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering. He was a post-doctoral visiting researcher at the Video and Image Processing Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and he is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship in 1991. | 