He is currently Director of Video Research and Standards at Dolby Laboratories and is the chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 (Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information – the committee that oversees JPEG and MPEG standardization) and of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG).
He has also published research work on various topics relating to video and image compression.
Sullivan joined Dolby Labs as Director of Video Research and Standards in 2023.
He was previously a Howard Hughes Fellow and member of technical staff in the Advanced Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft Company, and a terrain-following radar system software engineer for Texas Instruments.
Recognitions and awards for Sullivan and the projects he has led in the standardization community have included the following: Sullivan has held the following chairmanships in video coding standardization organizations: The JVT, JCT-VC, JCT-3V, and JVET have been joint projects between the VCEG and MPEG organizations.