Sorin Cismas

Sorin Constantin Cismas (born 1959) is a distinguished engineer, scientist, technologist (DEST) at Apple Inc.

Education
Cismas received an M.S. in electrical engineering from the in 1984.

Career
In July 1990, Cismas joined as a senior design engineer, leading development of the MDEC video unit of the  from Sony. In October 1993, Cismas founded CompCore Multimedia, which was a pioner in the development and licensing of MPEG and DVD software, this company was acquired by in December 1996. In January 1998, Cismas founded Mobilygen to develop high-performance low-power video codecs and multithreaded CPUs; this company was acquired by in October 2008.

In January 2013 Cismas founded oViCs to develop HEVC codecs, lossless compression, and video streaming processors; this company was acquired by Apple in November 2014.

Apple Inc.
Following the acquisition of oViCs by Apple, Cismas became a platform architect, focusing on media architecture. In March 2021, he became a DEST, focusing on architecture, design, and technology.