Zoe Liu
Co-Founder & CEO at Visionular Inc.
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZoe Liu is a veteran video-engineering leader and founder with 11+ years of experience building production-grade codecs, low-latency streaming, and AI-driven compression products. As Co-Founder and CEO of Visionular, she scaled a global team and profitable SaaS portfolio delivering AV1, HEVC, and H.264 encoders plus live and VOD solutions for enterprise customers. Her background spans R&D and product engineering at Google, Apple, Nokia and Bell Labs, with hands-on contributions to open-source codec work such as libvpx and VP9 optimizations. Known for blending deep signal-processing research (Ph.D. level) with pragmatic system engineering, she focuses on performance, efficiency, and operational scalability for real-time media. An understated strength is her ability to translate low-level codec improvements into measurable commercial gains across diverse global deployments.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at Purdue UniversityBS / MS / Ph.D. Department of Automation (Electrical Engineering), BS / MS / Ph.D. Department of Automation (Electrical Engineering) at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (12)
c1710
video-encoding10
c1110
vp99
optimization9
optimisation9
numerical-optimization9
algorithm9
code-optimization9
algorithms9
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
webmproject/libvpx
Jan 2015 - Jul 2018
Mirror only. Please do not send pull requests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zoe contributed to the codebase by removing redundant local variables within forward hybrid transforms. This suggests a focus on code optimization and efficiency improvements. Additionally, the user merged multiple code refactoring efforts and implemented changes related to the interpolation kernel, involving code refactoring and moving files. Further commits involved modifications to firstpass and VP9 encoder, and added hierarchical structure in the GF group, indicating work on the video encoding pipeline and overall system performance.
pull-requests
luctrudeau/libaom
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:126 commits in 10 months
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