Simão Campos
Head of Secretariat - International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Simão heads the secretariat for ITU’s Study Group 16 (on multimedia and digital technology standards including audio and video coding, accessibility, digital health) and WHO/ITU Focus Group on AI for health (FG-AI4H). His standardization experience started in 1989 with voice compression standards, and has managed the development of some notable technical standards, including Primetime Emmy recipients H.264 AVC, H.265 HEVC and JPEG; as well as ITU/WHO H.870 Safe Listening Devices and H.810-series Continua Design Guidelines. Prior to joining ITU, Simão was a Scientist at COMSAT Labs, USA, and a researcher at Brazil\\\’s CPqD telecom research center.
A Senior Member of the IEEE, author of academic and position papers, he organized the first ITU Kaleidoscope Conference.
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