Yue Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYue Chen is a research-driven senior software engineer with over a decade of experience focused on video codec innovation at Google, where she has contributed to the development of next-generation open-source, royalty-free codecs including AV1 and AV2. With a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and a B.S. from Tsinghua, she blends deep academic rigor with production-grade engineering to solve high-throughput media processing challenges. Based in Kirkland, WA, Yue has progressed from multiple Google internships to a senior role on Chrome Media’s Video Codec Team, demonstrating long-term impact on web video quality and efficiency. Colleagues know her for bridging theoretical research and pragmatic implementation—optimizing algorithms for real-world latency, bandwidth, and scalability constraints.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
webmproject/libvpx
Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Mirror only. Please do not send pull requests.
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 3 months
pull-requests
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