Jan leads the compression team at Synamedia and is responsible for the company’s codec development operations. Having spent his entire career in the compression space, most recently as Manager of Video and Image Encoding at Netflix, Jan is one of the industry’s foremost encoding experts.
Prior to his role at Netflix, Jan was Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Information Systems at Ghent University in Belgium.
Jan holds a PhD in Engineering from Ghent University in Belgium. He was general co-chair of the 2018 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), co-organizer of the AOMedia Research Symposia in San Francisco (2019) and Ghent (2023), and has been a presenter and speaker at a wide range of international conferences.