Vibhoothi Anand - Research Assistant at Trinity College Dublin

Vibhoothi Anand

Research Assistant at Trinity College Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

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Vibhoothi Anand is a research-focused software engineer and AV codec specialist with nine years’ experience building optimized transcoding pipelines and energy-efficient compression workflows, currently a Research Assistant at Trinity College Dublin. He holds a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and has driven practical AV1 work—from cloud-based VISP transcoding for multimedia and forensic use-cases to AV1-in-post-production research for virtual production and XR. An active open-source maintainer and contributor, he has implemented core features in popular projects like rav1e (the fast Rust AV1 encoder) and helped accelerate AV1 tooling and CI for AOMedia. He serves on the VideoLAN board and co-chairs AOM’s Extended Chroma group, reflecting a blend of technical depth and standards leadership across open codecs. Known for bridging low-level SIMD/architecture tuning with high-level pipeline design, he combines academic rigor with production-grade engineering.

9 years of coding experience

Doctor in Philosophy Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Doctor in Philosophy Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin

Grade I-XII Computer Science, Grade I-XII Computer Science at Kendriya vidyalaya No 1 Calicut

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus

English, Malayalam

Github Skills (7)

video-encoder10

rust10

encoder10

command-line9

cli9

command-line-interface9

documentation7

Programming languages (16)

JavaC++CRustTeXGoHTMLSvelte

Github contributions (5)

xiph/rav1e

Mar 2019 - Aug 2021

The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:1 release, 71 reviews, 54 commits in 2 years 5 months

Contributions summary:Vibhoothi primarily contributed to the core functionality of the AV1 encoder, specifically by implementing a new feature to skip frames during encoding via a command-line interface parameter. They made changes to the `common.rs` and `rav1e.rs` files, adding the `--skip` parameter and integrating it into the frame processing logic. Furthermore, the user added documentation for several encoder configurations and settings.

av1-encoderencoderfastestav1

vibhoothi/aom

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 32 branches in 4 months

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