Wassim Hamidouche
Principal Reseach Scientist at Microsoft
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolWassim Hamidouche is a Principal Research Scientist with 11 years of expertise in video compression, transmission and secure HEVC codec development, currently working at Microsoft after leadership roles across UAE and Europe. He combines academic rigor—an HDR and a PhD in video-related disciplines—with hands-on engineering, contributing significant cryptography and parallelism fixes to prominent open-source HEVC projects like OpenHEVC and Kvazaar. His background spans academia (Associate Professor at INSA Rennes), applied research institutes (IRT b-com, Technology Innovation Institute) and industry collaborations, delivering real-time, rate-distortion-optimized implementations for broadcast and streaming. Notably, he has integrated AES-based protections directly into encoder pipelines, evidencing a rare blend of media coding, security and systems-level engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Video transmission over wireless channels, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Video transmission over wireless channels at Université de PoitiersHabilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), Video Compression: From Rate-Distortion Optimisation to Real Time Implementation, Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), Video Compression: From Rate-Distortion Optimisation to Real Time Implementation at Université de Rennes 1Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Université des Sciences et de la Technologie 'Houari Boumediène'
English, French, Arabic, Kabyle
Github Skills (14)
c1710
aes-encryption10
c-language10
video-encoding10
cprogramming-language10
c1110
cryptography10
decoding10
hevc10
bitwise9
bit9
parallel9
ffmpeg7
crypto7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OpenHEVC/openHEVC
Jul 2015 - Feb 2017
HEVC decoder
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 48 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Wassim's commits primarily involve modifications to the HEVC decoder's code, including bug fixes, applying patches, and integrating new functionality. They addressed parallelism issues within the decoding process. The contributions also include updates to build configurations for different platforms (32/64 bit) and integrating crypto libraries.
hevc
ultravideo/kvazaar
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
An open-source HEVC encoder
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Wassim implemented features related to cryptographic functions within the HEVC encoder. They added and modified code for AES encryption, key generation, and integration of cryptographic operations, including encrypting motion vector signs and transform coefficient signs. Their work involved modifying existing code in `src/encoderstate.c`, `src/cabac.c`, and `src/extras/crypto.cpp` to incorporate these encryption features, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the security of the video encoding process. This included modifying existing code, and initializing and deleting cryptographic handles within the encoder's state management.
encoderhevcvideoh265
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