OneCodec is based in Aberdeen, Scotland and Boston, MA, USA. The company was founded by world leading experts on video coding.

Iain Richardson

Iain Richardson is an internationally known expert on the MPEG and H.264 video compression standards. He is the author of four books and over 80 research papers on video compression. He regularly advises companies on video compression technology, video coding patents and mergers/acquisitions in the video coding industry. Professor Richardson contributes to the MPEG industry standards group and is sought after as an expert witness. Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, he spends much of his time in the US. Follow Iain on Twitter : @onecodec.

Maja Bystrom

Dr Maja Bystrom received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From 1997-2002 she was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University and from 2002-2009 she was an Associate Professor at Boston University. In 1999 she received an National Science Foundation CAREER award and in 2001 a Fulbright Award. Formerly Associate Editor for Signal Processing Letters, she is a member of the IEEE Expert Now Editorial Board and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Her technical interests lie in the areas of multimedia communications, reconfigurable systems, and multidimensional data processing. Dr Bystrom is based in Boston, MA

Yafan Zhao

Dr Zhao received her PhD in video coding at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK in 2003. Since then, she has worked as a researcher and consultant in the area of video compression and communications. She is the author of many research publications, including papers in leading technical journals and patent applications. She is a regular reviewer for IEEE transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology and Signal processing: Image communications. Her expertise includes video coding standards, algorithms and software design of video CODECs as well as coding algorithms and system performance analysis and evaluation. She has worked with leading companies in the video coding industry.