Sachin Deshpande

Sachin Deshpande

Senior Director of Technology

Sharp Labs of America

Bio:

Sachin Deshpande has been with Sharp Labs of America since January 2000, where he is currently a Senior Director of Technology. 
He has contributed several technologies to ISO/IEC and ITU-T Versatile Video Coding (VVC),
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC), MultiView High Efficiency Video Coding (MV-HEVC), 
MPEG Omnidirectional MediA Format (OMAF), MPEG Systems, and ATSC 3.0 International standards.
He has several publications in reputed peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and books. 
He holds more than 200 U.S. patents. 
He is a recipient of Sharp Corporation Excellence Award for outstanding development
and contribution to next-generation video coding technologies and standard.
He has held several leadership positions in international standards organizations, including: Chairman of MPEG Omnidirectional MediA Format Ad-Hoc group, Vice-Chairman of the ATSC S33 Specialist Group on Management and Protocols, Chairman of the ATSC S33-2 Service Announcement Ad-Hoc Group.
He is also the lead Editor of ISO/ IEC 23090-2 and 23090-7, and Co-Editor of Versatile Supplemental Enhancement Information (VSEI) standard fourth edition and HEVC standard seventh edition and has been the lead Editor of multiple ATSC 3.0 standards (A332, A333, and A338).