Yan Lu

About

Yan Lu is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), where he oversees research on Future Media Experience. This research spans diverse fields including Multimedia, Immersive AI, Agentic AI, and HCI, aiming to drive innovation in the evolving landscape of media and AI convergence.

Yan Lu has an extensive record of driving innovation at Microsoft. Throughout his tenure, he has led the team in groundbreaking research across multiple domains such as real-time communication, computer vision, audio enhancement, immersive computing, and mobile-cloud computing. Many key technologies and research prototypes developed by him and his team have been successfully integrated into Microsoft products like Windows, Office, Teams, Skype, Xbox, and Azure Media Service. Currently, he’s also leading the development of neural video communication technologies at Microsoft.

Prior to joining MSRA in 2004, he served as the team lead of the video coding group in the JDL Lab, Institute of Computing Technology, China. From 1999 to 2000, he worked as a research assistant at the City University of Hong Kong. Yan Lu has made significant contributions to international standards such as MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and AOM AV1. He was also recognized as a key technical contributor and an editor of the first-version AVS video standard. In 2006, he was honored with the State Technological Invention Award (second prize) of China.

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