Tsung-Chuan Ma

Tsung-Chuan Ma

Tsung-Chuan Ma

Focus on the video codecs

Summary -8+ years experience on video compression for HW and SW products. -Developed the compression techniques of next-generation video coding. -Experienced in standards: AV1, VVC, H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, MPEG, etc. Technical Skill -Program language: C++/C, Python, Verilog HDL

Experience

AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services CompanySoftware Development Engineer

2022 — Now

2022 — Now

Santa Clara, California, United States

working on software video encoder

ByteDanceMultimedia Researcher

2021 — 2022

2021 — 2022

San Diego, California, United States

worked on software video encoder

Built the in-house VVC video encoder/transcoder for TikTok

AppleVideo Codec Modeling Engineer

2020 — 2021

2020 — 2021

San Diego, California, United States

worked on video codec projects

Implemented the behavior models of the video codecs AV1

Kwai Inc.Video Algorithm Researcher

2019 — 2020

2019 — 2020

San Diego, California, United States

worked on versatile video coding standard a.k.a h.266

Reduced ~20% complexity of in-house VVC-ish software decoder w/o severe visual degradation

Applied deep learning in-loop filter to reduce 4.3%(Intra) & 4.7%(RA) Y-BD-rate over VTM9.0

Participated the VVC Standardization and contribute 28 proposals for JVET meeting

Proposed lossless VVC with 7%(Intra) and 6%(RA) Y-BD-rate reduction over lossless VVC CE anchor

Ambidio Inc.Software Engineer

2015 — 2018

2015 — 2018

worked on audio related projects.

Education

UCLA

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

National Taiwan University

Master of Science - MS

National Taiwan University

Bachelor's degree