Iole Moccagatta is a Principal Engineer at Intel working on HW
Multimedia IPs that are integrated on Intel platforms. Prior to Intel,
Iole hold the position of Senior Video Architect at NVIDIA, and that
of Science Director at IMEC, Belgium.

Iole has been a very active member of MPEG, ITU-T, and JPEG, where she
has represented US interests and companies and made a large number of
technical contributions. A number of those have been included in MPEG
and JPEG standards. Currently, Iole is an active participant of the
Alliance for Open Media (AOM) AV1 Codec WG, where she has co-authored
two adopted proposals.

Iole has served at Secretary (2015) and Chair (2016 and 2017) of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter. Under her
leadership, the Chapter organized a PhD Forum, two tutorials, monthly
technical talks, and co-organized a 2-days AI Symposium. Speakers for
these events came from both academia and industries, and average
attendance grow to over 100. Over the years Iole has served in that
Chapter, membership has grown slightly to reach 560+ members, while
the email list grown significantly, doubling its size from 1500+ in
2015 to 2900+ in 2017.

Because of all these, the Chapter was selected as the co-recipient of
the IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter of the Year Award for 2017.

Iole also focused on diversity: 1/3 of the speakers was female, and
she recruited females volunteers, one of who is serving as 2019 Chair
of the Chapter. Iole is currently Chair Emeritus of the Chapter,
supporting and advising their officers.

Iole is the author or co-author of more than 30 publications, 2 book
chapters, and more than 10 talks and tutorials in the field of image
and video coding. She holds more than 10 patents in the same fields.

Iole received a Diploma of Electronic Engineering from the University
of Pavia, Italy, and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.