Simon, Gwendal

Gwendal Simon is a Distinguished Software Architect at Synamedia. Previously, he was a Research Expert at Huawei (2019-2021) and a Full Professor at IMT Atlantique (2006-2019). He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from University Rennes 1 in 2000 and 2005 respectively. He was a visiting researcher at University Waterloo during 2011-2012 and a visiting senior researcher at Adobe Research in San Jose California during 2018-2019. He was a research engineer at Orange R&D lab (2001-2006). He has co-authored a dozen of patents and over 100 conference/journal papers in network, multimedia (video, gaming, virtual reality), and systems. He received several best paper awards (including IEEE ICC and ACM MMSys).