Gwendal Simon
Senior Director Of Technology at Synamedia
France
Summary
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Top SchoolGwendal Simon is a seasoned technology leader overseeing strategic innovation at Synamedia, shaping the Video Network unit's roadmap and driving AI-powered transformation across multimedia streaming and content delivery networks. With over 20 years spanning industry and academia, he has advanced adaptive streaming, immersive media, and AI-driven video analytics, and is a recognized contributor to MPEG, SVTA, DASH-IF, and IETF standards. He is SVTA Co-Chair for Networking and Transport, coordinating industry collaboration and standardization while reconciling engineering, product, and business goals across organizations. His career includes leadership roles at Huawei and IMT Atlantique, where he led research teams in multimedia delivery, edge technologies, and R&D collaboration, plus roles in Orange and Adobe, illustrating a broad track record of turning research into production systems. Based in France, he is a prolific researcher with 100+ publications and an h-index of 38, routinely sharing insights at global conferences and serving as a technical thought leader in standards bodies.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation, Habilitation at Université de Rennes I
English, French
Github Skills (8)
stream10
warp9
streaming8
quic8
webrtc8
transform3
360-video3
compression1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gwendalsimon/3CPS-Three-Pass-Supercompression
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
This repository contains the code for performing the DXT1 re-compression of the proposed 3CPS supercompression
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 9 days
compression
gwendalsimon/IEEE-VR-texture-streaming
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 days
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