Liang Zhao
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiang Zhao is a Principal Engineer based in Sunnyvale with a Ph.D. in video coding and more than a decade of deep expertise in video compression standards and encoder optimization. He has authored 20+ papers across HEVC, VVC, AV2 and practical encoding topics, and has driven standardization work and technical leadership at Tencent Americas. Liang’s career blends research and product-focused engineering—from academic contributions at Harbin Institute of Technology and University of Missouri to applied encoding projects at Hulu and MediaTek where several proposals influenced HEVC. He specializes in video coding algorithms, image processing, C/C++ and Python, and is known for practical speedups and quality-aware pipeline design. Notably, his work spans both algorithmic innovation and real-world deployment concerns like parallel encoding, HDR pipelines, and native frame-rate restoration. Colleagues rely on him to translate cutting-edge research into standards-ready and production-grade solutions.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), video coding, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), video coding at Harbin Institute of Technology
Github Skills (55)
ctc9
sequence9
bootswatch9
nlp8
sequence-to-sequence8
python8
jekyll-theme8
facebook8
artificial-intelligence8
pytorch8
modality7
liquid7
jekyll7
llm7
conformer7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lancopku/CGM
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
lancopku/LexicalAT
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 day
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