Anne Aaron is a Filipina engineer and the director of video algorithms at Netflix . Her responsibilities include "hiring and managing software engineers and research scientists, strategic decision-making on software architecture and research, project management, and cross-team coordination" ^[1]

Education [ edit ]

Aaron attended the Philippine Science High School and the Ateneo de Manila University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1998, and another in computer engineering the year after. ^[2] She then entered Stanford University ^[1] where she received a PhD in electrical engineering. During these years, Aaron received the AT&T Asia Pacific Leadership Award and C.V. Starr Southeast Asian Fellowship. ^{[3] [4]}

Career [ edit ]

After Stanford, Aaron dove into video streaming companies, such as Modulus Video and Dyyno , ^[2] then followed a stint at Cisco Systems , where she was the engineering lead for video encoding for its FlipShare Video desktop software. ^[5] She has been working at Netflix since 2011. ^[5]

Awards [ edit ]

Aaron was recognized as one of the 43 most powerful female engineers of 2017 by Business Insider . ^[6] In 2018 she was featured among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes . ^[7]

External links [ edit ]

• Anne Aaron publications indexed by Google Scholar

References [ edit ]