Lionel Pierrefeu is a highly experienced Digital Design Engineer at Dolphin Integration since January 2011, specializing in digital architecture, product specifications, technical oversight, and customer support, with expertise in signal processing and SoC/ASIC IP design. Previous experience includes post-doctoral research at Laboratoire GIPSA-LAB, focusing on memory access performance for embedded image processing systems, and research internships at Laboratoire Electronique Informatique Image (LE2I) and FastVision Technologie, where Lionel developed a motion estimation block for MPEG4 co-processing and collaborated on high-speed camera design, respectively. Academic qualifications include a Doctorate in Electronics and Image Processing from Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne and advanced degrees in instrumentation and electrical engineering from Université de Bourgogne.