Summary
Imen Debbabi is a Hardware Design and Verification Team Lead with a PhD in ICT, PMP® certification, and over ten years of experience delivering FPGA and ASIC solutions across video processing, channel coding, NoC architectures, and avionics. She has led virtual verification and synthesizable testbench efforts under DO-254 constraints, blending rigorous verification methodologies (SystemVerilog/UVM) with hands-on hardware design. Her career spans industry leaders and R&D roles—from STMicroelectronics NoC blocks and H.264 encoder sub-blocks to consultancy for Marvell, Synopsys, and MaxLinear—demonstrating end-to-end ownership from architecture to system integration. Imen thrives in multicultural, cross-functional teams, pairing strong technical depth with organizational and training skills to build high-performing verification teams. She is particularly adept at turning advanced algorithms (e.g., LDPC decoding research) into optimized silicon implementations, ensuring reliable, market-ready designs. Based in Tunis, she combines academic rigor with practical delivery, often operating at the intersection of research innovation and certified aerospace-grade development.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at Ecole des Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT)
Baccalauréat Mathématiques, Baccalauréat Mathématiques at Lycée Pilote Gafsa
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Algorithms and architectures for digital signal processing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Algorithms and architectures for digital signal processing at SUP'COM
Master’s Degree, Communication Systems, Master’s Degree, Communication Systems at Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Tunis
Mathematics and physics, Mathematics and physics at IPEST
Arabic, French, English, Italian