Zafar Shahid

Dr. Zafar Shahid received his Ph.D. from the University of Montpellier, France in 2010. From 2001-2006, he was a Sr. Software Engineer at Streaming Networks, working on Real-time multimedia products. During 2011-2015, he worked as a Media Encoding Architect for multiple start-ups designing both IPTV and low latency video pipelines. During 2016-2019, he worked on GeForce Now cloud gaming platform at Nvidia. Since 2019, He is technical lead at Meta Platforms, where he is working both with Academia and Industry to solve the hardest problem in Multimedia Processing. Dr. Shahid has more than 40 publications and three patents.