Yan Ye

Dr. Yan Ye is a Distinguished Scientist at Alibaba Group U.S. and the lab director of the Video Technology Lab of Alibaba’s Damo Academy. Her lab’s video product solutions power Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba E-Commerce Taobao, Youku, DingTalk, Alipay and many other video businesses inside and outside of Alibaba. Prior to Alibaba, she held various management and technical positions at InterDigital, Dolby Laboratories, and Qualcomm.

Dr. Ye has been actively involved in developing international video coding and video streaming standards in ITU-T SG21/Q.6 Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). She is an Associate Rapporteur of the ITU-T SG21/Q.6, the Group Chair of INCITS/MPEG task group, and a focus group chair on 2D video quality metrics of the ISO/IEC SC 29/AG 5 MPEG Visual Quality Assessment. She has made many technical contributions to video coding and streaming standards including SVC of H.264, H.265/HEVC, H.266/VVC, MPEG DASH and MPEG OMAF. She is an editor of the scalable extensions and the screen content coding extensions of the H.265/HEVC standard.