Gwendal Simon
Senior Director Of Technology at Synamedia
France
Summary
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Top SchoolGwendal Simon is a Senior Director of Technology at Synamedia who drives strategic innovation in multimedia streaming, edge CDNs, and AI-driven video analytics with over two decades spanning industry and academia. He combines hands-on architecture leadership—having led the Fluid Edge CDN and edge delivery strategy—with deep research credentials, including 100+ publications and an h-index of 38. A recognized contributor to MPEG, DASH-IF, SVTA and IETF standards, he translates standards work into product roadmaps, patents, and cross-functional R&D execution. Previously a professor managing large research teams and a lead researcher at Huawei and Adobe, he blends academic rigor with product-focused incubation of proofs-of-concept. He routinely represents companies in industry forums and customer engagements, and has a track record of turning cutting-edge research (volumetric media, cloud gaming, line-rate ML inference) into deployable innovations. Based in France, he is equally comfortable steering executive strategy and mentoring technical teams to deliver measurable business impact.
10 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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