Dr. Yasser Syed is a Comcast Distinguished Architect whose work focuses on developing and implementing next generation video technologies and workflows. He works for Comcast’s Strategic Architecture & Technology team which is part of the Global Technology Organization of Comcast Cable.
Dr. Syed has contributed a substantial amount of content and effort to many video standards-related areas. Currently, he chairs the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Working Group 7 (WG7) on DASH/Adaptive Streaming, and also leads its Advanced Coding Technologies group which created the High Dynamic Range (HDR) application and next Generation Codec constraint specifications (AVC, HEVC, VVC) for the cable industry. Dr. Syed is an active member of the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG), the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), DASH-IF (now part of SVTA), the Common Media Application Format (CMAF) group, and is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He also has been the President of the UltraHD Forum for the last 2 years.
Previously, he led the pioneering CableLabs ADI VoD Metadata Project which is still in use in places today. Dr. Syed is also the 2021 recipient of the SCTE award for excellence in standards.
