Vivienne Sze

Vivienne Sze is an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and heads the Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Research Group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics. Her group works on computing systems that enable energy-efficient machine learning, computer vision, and video compression/processing for a wide range of applications, including autonomous navigation, digital health, and the internet of things. Her awards include an Air Force Office of Scientific Research and DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Edgerton Faculty Award and faculty awards from Google, Facebook, and Qualcomm. She has also received a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for a high efficiency video compression standard. Sze earned a BS from the University of Toronto, and an MS and PhD from MIT.