Xiaoqing Zhu

Xiaoqing Zhu is a Senior Research Scientist at Netflix. Her research interests span video coding and transport, interactive multimedia communications, distributed resource optimization, and applications of machine learning. Prior to Netflix, Xiaoqing was a Sr. Technical Leader at the Innovation Labs at Cisco Systems. She holds a B.Eng. in Electronics Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She received both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, CA, USA. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, receiving the Best Student Paper Award at ACM Multimedia in 2007, the Best Presentation Award at IEEE Packet Video Workshop in 2013, and the Best Research Paper Award for Vehicular Communications (VEHCOM) 2017. She holds over 40 granted  U.S. patents.  

Xiaoqing has served extensively within the multimedia research community, as TPC member, industry chair, and area chair for conferences, guest editor for special issues of leading journals and magazines.  She previously served as chair of the MCDIG (Multimedia Content Distribution: Infrastructure and Algorithms) Interest Group in Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (MMTC) and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. She received the Outstanding Service Award as Industrial Program Chair for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) in 2017.