Maxime Pelcat is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Rennes. He holds a joint appointment in the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR), a CNRS research unit. His main research interests include dataflow models, multimedia and telecommunication processing, and programming of distributed embedded systems. Maxime Pelcat is a member of the HiPEAC network. He obtained his Ph.D. in signal processing from INSA in 2010. The Ph.D. thesis resulted from a collaboration of INSA Rennes and Texas Instruments, Nice, and followed a contract as research engineer. Previously, after one year in the Audio and Multimedia department at Fraunhofer-Institute IIS in Erlangen, Germany, he worked as a contractor at France Telecom Research and Development.