Andrey Norkin

Andrey Norkin is a Principal Architect at NVIDIA, where he works on video compression technologies spanning conventional and ML-based approaches. He also serves as co-Chair of the Video Codec Working Group of the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), where he co-led the development of AV2, the organization’s most recent video codec specification.

Between 2015 and 2025, Andrey was a Research Scientist at Netflix. His work focused on encoding technologies for over-the-top (OTT) video streaming, High Dynamic Range (HDR) video processing, and emerging approaches to video compression. Before joining Netflix, he worked at Ericsson in Sweden, from 2008 to 2015, conducting research and leading projects in video compression and 3D video. He also contributed to the development of hardware video encoders for broadcast applications at Ericsson TV, now MediaKind, in Southampton, UK.

Andrey contributed to video coding standardization within ITU-T and MPEG, particularly to the development of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) with multiple adopted technical proposal and coordination of work in certain areas including deblocking filtering. He also played an active role in AOMedia’s development of the AV1 video codec and received a 2025 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award as a credited contributor to the AV1 specification.

Andrey holds a Doctor of Science degree in Signal Processing from Tampere University of Technology, Finland.