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Christopher Phillips serves as Vice President of Advanced R&D and is responsible for supporting the Adeia CTO in defining the future technology roadmap and research strategy as well as leading advanced R&D projects. Mr. Phillips’ current focus is on eXtended reality, the metaverse, and cloud gaming research topics. Prior to Adeia, Mr. Phillips was a Master Researcher at Ericsson Research where he led Ericsson’s eXtended Reality research. His eXtended Reality research topics focused on device/network-edge split compute for environment understanding, media processing, remote/split rendering, and transport optimization over 5G and future 6G mobile networks. Prior to Ericsson, Phillips held research positions at AT&T Laboratories and the former AT&T Bell Laboratories focused on network load balancing and routing research. Mr. Phillips is an inventor on over 300 worldwide patent applications, over 100 worldwide granted patents and a coauthor on numerous publications. He was a 3-time innovation winner in Ericsson’s Media Innovation Competitions and won Ericsson’s Media Innovator of the year one time award in 2014. Phillips has been active in the 3GPP, VRIF, MPEG, DASH-IF, Streaming Video Alliance and OpenXR organizations. Phillips holds degrees in Computer Science from the University of Georgia.