It's Casey Muratori, he's an American gamedev, not a professor. The video was a recorded guest lecture for a uni in the Netherlands though.

And it wasn't redone in assembly, it was C++ with SIMD intrinsics, which might as well just be assembly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcqY&list=PLEMXAbCVnm...