Jim Kosmach is a Director of Undergraduate Studies and Clinical Associate Professor at University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering. He possess expertise in embedded systems, embedded software, android, wireless, algorithms and 20 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Jim led the team that developed all Packetvideo's Audio and Video software codecs that now are part of Android's multimedia libraries. His knowledge of multimedia, video/image processing, ARM architecture, and familiarity with MPEG standards, helped the team to be very productive, and his down-to-earth managerial style made the group even more effective, as ideas easily flew back and forth. He is constantly willing to help and he has the ability to explain a complicated issue in a simple way.", "Jim has a deep understanding of multimedia. He led a team of codec engineers and created high performance implementations of the MPEG-4 and H.264 standards, that became part of Android OHA multimedia framework. Today, those codec implementations continue to be used by other open source bodies such as FFMPEG and remains as a competitive industry benchmark. Jim has published and presented his work in multiple technical venues and holds a number of important industry patents. Jim excels not only in video compression technologies, but has also challenged himself to expand beyond that and has become a prominent member of our iOS and Android multimedia applications team. He would be an invaluable member in multiple capacities in any organization.", and "Jim is a video, image and digital processing expert. His knowledge of video compression is second to none. He knows the standards very well. Moreover, he can build solution within or around the standards. When we worked together, i challenged him and his team to build the fastes MPEG-4 decoders and encoders, which they did. I challenged them to build high quality encoders within computational budget constraints, which they did. Moreover, his video compression expertise goes beyond standard solution to include popular market technologies, e.g., VC1, WMV/WMA, VP8, etc. Moreover, Jim has key contributions to the industry demonstrated in his publications and patents. Some of his patents are key in current industry IP discussions. Jim goes beyond the theory and focuses on the practical. He was part of our Android contribution team as we were founding member of Open Handset Alliance. He also became a resident expert in iOS implementations. Jim lead groups and mentored engineers. One of the best young engineers we hired was mentored by him. Jim worked closely with him and made sure we all appreciate him. Jim is a great asset for any company who build video, image or signal processing products. Moreover, he is a great asset for companies who just build iOS and Android applications. I strongly recommend Jim for he is a very smart, hard working person, and with a great educational background. He is also a very nice, good person that you can always trust."