Yuriy Reznik

Yuriy Reznik is the Founder and CTO of Streaming Labs, Ltd., a research and technology consulting firm specializing in the design, performance analysis, and optimization of streaming media delivery systems.

Previously, he held senior management and engineering roles at Brightcove, Inc. (2016–2025), InterDigital, Inc. (2011–2016), Qualcomm Inc. (2005–2011), and RealNetworks, Inc. (1998–2005). In 2008, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. Since 2001, he has actively contributed to the ITU-T SG16 and MPEG standards committees, influencing the development of several key multimedia coding and delivery standards, including ITU-T H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 ALS, ITU-T G.718, ITU-T H.265/MPEG HEVC, and MPEG-DASH. He is presently serving as a co-chair of the DASH Industry Forum and co-chair of the SVTA Player & Playback and Encoding & Packaging working groups.
Several technologies, standards, and products that Yuriy Reznik has helped develop, such as RealAudio/RealVideo, ITU-T H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Zencoder, Brightcove CAE, and MPEG-DASH, have received the NATAS Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards.
Yuriy Reznik holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Kyiv University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE, and a member of ACM, AES, and SMPTE. He has co-authored over 150 conference and journal papers, and holds more than 80 granted U.S. patents.