Vivienne Sze is an American

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and

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whose research focuses on low-power electronics and on the trade-offs between energy use and computing power in the combined design of software and hardware, for applications including video coding and

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s. She is an associate professor in the

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(MIT) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where she heads the Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Group.

Education and career

Sze did her undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, graduating in 2004. She was a student of

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at MIT, where she earned a master's degree in 2006 and completed her Ph.D. in 2010; her doctoral research won MIT's Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize in electrical engineering. After completing her doctorate, she worked on video coding at

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. She became a member of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), which developed the standard for

High Efficiency Video Coding High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding (AVC, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10). In compar ...

(HEVC). After completing her work on HEVC, she returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2013.

Books

With Madhukar Budagavi and Gary J. Sullivan, Sze edited the book ''High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC): Algorithms and Architectures'' (Springer, 2014). With Yu-Hsin Chen, Tien-Ju Yang, and Joel S. Emer, she is a coauthor of ''Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks'' (Morgan & Claypool, 2020).

Recognition

As part of the JCT-VC, Sze and her collaborators won a 2017

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for their work on HEVC. In 2020 she became the inaugural winner of the Rising Star Award of

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, the Council on Women in Computing of the

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References

External links

Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Group
Sze's laboratory at MIT * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sze, Vivienne Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists American electrical engineers American women engineers University of Toronto alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty