Zoe Liu

Before co-founding Visionular, Zoe Liu was a Staff Software Engineer with the Google Chrome Media team for five years where she was a pivotal 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 developerecosystem.

Zoe has been Principal Contributor/Technical Lead for several renowned video real-time communications products, including Apple FaceTime, Tango VideoCall, and Google Glass VideoCall. In addition to her work with Google, Apple, and Tango, 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 (The Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) where her thesis was titled “Layered Scalable And Low Complexity Video Encoding: New Approaches And Theoretic Analysis.”

As a prolific IP developer, Zoe has published more than 45 international conference and journal papers and filed over 50 International patent applications.

Zoe received the Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer (OECE) alumni award from Purdue University in 2025.