Horowitz (born January 2, 1964 in Ames, Iowa) is an American electrical engineer who actively participated in the creation of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and H.265/HEVC video coding standards.
He is co-inventor of flexible macroblock ordering (FMO), and tiles, essential features in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and H.265/HEVC, respectively.
He is Managing Partner of Applied Video Compression.
He is currently on the Technical Advisory Board of Vivox, Inc.
and has served on the Technical Advisory Boards of Vidyo, Inc., Hackensack, New Jersey, USA and RipCode, Dallas, Texas, United States.