Gwendal Simon is a Distinguished Software Architect at Synamedia. Previously, he was a Research Expert at Huawei 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). His academic duties include the promotion of reproducible research. He is Chevalier des Palmes Academiques.