Resume
Academic Achievements
- - Main Achievements: Developed the open-source Speex and Opus audio codecs, contributed to the development of the Daala and AV1 video codecs
Research Experience
- - 2024-present: Employed by Google
- - 2019-2024: Employed by Amazon Web Services
- - 2011-2019: Employed by Mozilla
- - 2008-2011: Employed by Octasic
- - 2005-2008: Post-Doctoral Fellow at CSIRO ICT Center
Education
- - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Sherbrooke (Robotics lab) in 2005
- - M.Sc.A. in Electrical Engineering from University of Sherbrooke (Speech and Audio Research Group) in 2001
- - B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from University of Sherbrooke in 1999
Background
- - Research Interests: Speech and audio coding, video coding, machine learning, echo cancellation, etc.
- - Professional Field: Electrical Engineering
- - Brief Introduction: Primary author of the Speex codec and one of the main authors of the Opus codec. Also contributed to the Daala and AV1 video codecs.
Miscellany
- - Contact: jmvalin@jmvalin.ca
- - IRC nick: jmspeex on irc.libera.chat
- - Accounts: Github and LinkedIn