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Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT |
Dr. Yuriy A. Reznik is a Research Scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he conducts research and teaches the graduate-level course 6.7010 Digital Image Processing. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer at Streaming Labs, Ltd., maintaining active engagement with the industry.
His previous roles include Vice President of Research at Brightcove, Inc. (2016-2025), Director of Engineering at InterDigital, Inc. (2011-2016), Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Inc. (2005-2011), and Principal Engineer at RealNetworks, Inc. (1998-2005). At RealNetworks, Dr. Reznik was a key developer of RealAudio and RealVideo, pioneering technologies for internet streaming. He was also a co-inventor of SureStream, the predecessor of Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming, a foundational technology for video delivery over the internet. While with Qualcomm and InterDigital, he contributed to the development of major international standards, including MPEG-4 AVC, HEVC, MPEG-DASH, and CMAF. At Brightcove, he led the development of large-scale video transcoding and streaming products, including Zencoder and Video Cloud. These technologies and standards have earned multiple Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).
Dr. Reznik's research spans digital signal processing, information theory, multimedia coding, and media delivery over packet-based networks. His contributions are reflected in over 150 peer-reviewed publications and more than 80 granted U.S. patents. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE, and a member of ACM, AES, and SMPTE.
Originally from Ukraine, Dr. Reznik earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Kyiv in 2005. In 2008, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, studying advanced topics in image and video processing. He joined the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT in September 2025.