Liu, Zoe

Zoe Liu is the Co-Founder, President, and CTO of Visionular a video technology company specializing in the development of video encoders and image processing solutions. Prior to founding Visionular in 2018, Zoe was a Staff Software Engineer with the Google Chrome Media team for five years where she was a significant contributor to the development and finalization of the open-source video codec standard AV1. In 2018, Zoe was a featured Google I/O speaker where she introduced AV1 to Google’s global developer ecosystem. Zoe has been a Principal Contributor/Technical Lead on several renowned video real-time communications products, including Apple FaceTime, Tango VideoCall, and Google Glass VideoCall. In addition, she has contributed to world-renowned research teams at Bell Labs, Nokia Research Center, Sun Labs, and HP Labs. Zoe earned her Ph.D., ME, and BE from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. from Purdue University with Professor Edward Delp. As a prolific IP developer, Zoe has published more than 45 international conference and journal papers and filed over 50 International patent applications.