Pınar Akyazı

Pınar Akyazı is a Senior Sales Enablement Program Manager and Senior Account Manager at Synamedia since January 2020, specializing in managing Central Eastern Europe accounts for end-to-end video solutions, with a notable portfolio that includes United Group, Deutsche Telekom, Sky, Telekom Italia, and Rai Way. Previously, Pınar served as a Doctoral Researcher at EPFL from September 2014 to October 2020, where skills in developing learning-based image compression models and multimedia quality assessment engines using deep convolutional neural networks were honed. Pınar contributed to ISO committees, specifically as chairwoman of JPEG AI, and played a role in the advancement of JPEG XL. Pınar's academic background includes a PhD from EPFL and both a Master's and Bachelor's degree from Boğaziçi University in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.