Jingning Han

Jingning Han (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He joined the WebM Codec Team, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA, in 2012, where he is the Main Architect of the VP9 and AV1 codecs, and leads the Software Video Codec Team. He has published more than 60 research articles. He holds more than 50 U.S. patents in the field of video coding. His research interests include video coding and computer science architecture. He received the Dissertation Fellowship from the Department of Electrical and Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, in 2012. He was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo in 2012. He also received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Young Author Paper Award in 2015.