Vignesh Menon
Senior Engineer at Qualcomm
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVignesh Menon is a senior engineer and video coding specialist with over a decade of R&D experience bridging industry and academia, currently at Qualcomm and lecturing on multimedia for the metaverse. He designs energy-efficient, low-latency video codecs and adaptive streaming pipelines, contributing to standards like AVC/HEVC/VVC and publishing 40+ peer-reviewed papers alongside six patents. Hands-on expertise spans SIMD-optimized C/C++ implementations, AVX512 acceleration in x265, film-grain coding, and ML-driven per-title encoding and complexity analysis. His open-source and commercial work—ranging from fixing scaling-list bugs and SEA motion-search in x265 to building UHDkit features—demonstrates a rare blend of assembly-level optimization and perceptual-quality research. Colleagues note his consistent ability to turn cutting-edge research into deployable encoder features that improve both quality and energy efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information and Network Engineering, Master's degree Information and Network Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyHigher Secondary Education, Higher Secondary Education at Vijayagiri Public SchoolDoctor's Degree Informatics, Doctor's Degree Informatics at Universität KlagenfurtHigh School Education, High School Education at Palghat Lions SchoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Amrita School of Engineering
Sanskrit, Malayalam, Hindi, German, English, Tamil
Github Skills (7)
avx10
c-language10
video-encoding10
cprogramming-language10
optimization9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
videolan/x265
Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/ git mirror
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vignesh focused on fixing bugs related to scaling lists within the x265 video encoding repository. Their contributions involved making changes to the source code related to scaling lists and entropy coding, with a specific emphasis on addressing issues in scaling and the implementation of a SEA motion search implementation. They also implemented API changes to reconfigure the scaling lists and scaled support for 4:4:4 videos. Further changes show modifications for AVX512 code.
git-mirrorbitbucketx265
cd-athena/VCA
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Video complexity analyzer
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 118 commits in 1 year 2 months
analyzercomplexityvideo
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