About

Jayashri Murugan is a Research Engineer at Amazon with over 5 years of experience in Video codec algorithm development and optimization. She has a good level of understanding and experience in C/C++ Object Oriented programming and has worked on various quality and speed improvement R&D works under Intra/Inter analysis, rate-control, and post-processing modules of the encoder and decoder (AVC, HEVC, AV1). Jayashri is proficient in x86 and arm Assembly and Intrinsic optimization, SIMD - SSE, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, ARMv8, and has experience in profiling and performance analysis. Prior to her current role at Amazon, Jayashri worked as a Senior Engineer at Qualcomm and Ittiam Systems Pvt Ltd. At Ittiam Systems, she worked on memory foot print optimizations and control code optimizations of AV1 decoder and HEVC Encoder SIMD Optimization of various encoding algorithms for x86 and ARM architecture. She also implemented Intel x86 AVX2 intrinsic to improve open-source AV1 video decoder performance and contributed to multi-threading, algorithmic speed optimizations to open-source AV1 video encoder. Jayashri holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science from Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering. She also completed her Higher Secondary School education from St Joseph of Cluny Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Jayashri's tech stack includes Research Scientist, test, and C. With 6.62 years of relevant experience, she is a skilled engineer with a strong background in video codec algorithm development and optimization.