Gwendal Simon (MSc'00, PhD'04, HDR'15) is graduated from University Rennes 1 (France). During his PhD, he worked at Orange Research Labs. From 2004 to 2006 he was a researcher at Orange Labs. Since 2006, he has been Associate Professor, and then Full Professor at IMT Atlantique, a graduate engineering school within the Institut Mines Telecom (IMT). He was a visiting researcher at University of Waterloo from September 2011 to September 2012. His research interests include multimedia delivery systems (video and gaming) and network management.
Member of Adopnet within IRISA.
Teacher in a "grande école", where education matters. Strong advocate of "active learning", as illustrated by involvement in project-oriented teaching, two academic papers in this area, and contributions to Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC).
Chevalier of the Palmes Académiques (french distinction for contributions in pedagogy).
Reviewer. I am in the board of IEEE MMTC R-letters. In the Program Committee of well-known conferences, including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, Packet Video, ACM Netgames, ACM MMSys, ACM Nossdav, and ACM Multimedia. Publicity Chair of ACM MMsys'17, Dataset Track Chair of ACM MMSys'17, Reproducibility Chair of ACM MMSys'18, General Chair or ACM/IEEE Netgames'18. Area Chair of IEEE ICME'17.
Other communities duties include contributions to an ACM project related to the reproducibility of results in scientific publication and to the IEEE Multimedia Cloud Computing Interest Group (MCCIG).
In the PhD defense jury of several (non-tutored) students: Eliya Buyukkaya (2011), Samuel Bernard (2011), Daouda Ahmat (2014), Yacine Benchaïb (2014), Lissandro Linguaglossa (2016 - reviewer), Andrea Araldo (2016 - reviewer), Nassima Bouzakaria (2017 - reviewer) and Stefano D’Aronco (2018 - reviewer). Also in the HDR defense jury of Cyril Concolato (2016) and Christoph Neumann (2016).
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