Didier LeGall

Who is Didier LeGall?

Didier LeGall co-founded Ambarella Inc. in 2004 along with other

Ambarella founding members, to drive innovation in hybrid digital

cameras and define a new class of consumer products.

Prior

to co-founding Ambarella, LeGall was co-founder and CTO of C-Cube

Microsystems up until C-Cube’s acquisition by LSI Logic in 2001. At LSI

Logic, Didier served as vice president and general manager of the Home

Media product group with PL responsibility for DVD, recordable DVD

and professional digital video products. In 2003, he became vice

president of engineering for LSI Logic’s Broadband Entertainment group

and was responsible for DVD, DVD recordable, professional video,

set-top box and digital TV integrated circuits. As vice president and

general manager, LeGall grew LSI Logic’s market share of DVD recorder

ICs by well over 50 percent.

Before joining C-Cube, LeGall

was manager of the Visual Communication group at Bell Communications

Research (Bellcore). At Bellcore, LeGall worked on compression

algorithms for digital video and digital HDTV. He also held an adjunct

professorship at Columbia University from 1985 to 1989.

LeGall

started the standardization effort of the Moving Picture Expert Group

(MPEG) and served as chairman of the MPEG Video group from 1989 to 1995

delivering two international standards MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 that have

since had a major impact on the industry. LeGall is the author or

co-author of over twenty digital video-related patents.

Didier

LeGall received his undergraduate degrees from Ecole Centrale de Lyon,

France and Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. He earned his

master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from UCLA.