My Background
Ali C. Begen is currently a computer science professor at Ozyegin University and a technical consultant in Comcast's Advanced Technology and Standards Group. Previously, he was a research and development engineer at Cisco. Begen received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech in 2006. To date, he received several academic and industry awards (including an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering), and was granted 40+ US patents. In 2020 and 2021, he was listed among the world's most influential scientists in the subfield of networking and telecommunications. More details are at https://ali.begen.net.
Ali C. Begen is the co-founder of Networked Media, a technology company that offers consulting services to media-tech companies and law firms in the IP video space. He has been a research and development engineer since 2001, and has broad experience in mathematical modeling, performance analysis, optimization, standards development, intellectual property and innovation. Between 2007 and 2015, he was with the Video and Content Platforms Research and Advanced Development Group at Cisco. He designed and developed algorithms, protocols, products and solutions in the service provider and enterprise video domains. Currently, he is also affiliated with Ozyegin University, where he teaches and advises students in the computer science department.
Ali has a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech. To date, he received several academic and industry awards (including an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering), and was granted 40+ US patents. He held editorial positions in prestigious magazines and journals, and served on the organizing committee of several international conferences and workshops in the field. He is a senior member of both the IEEE and ACM. In 2016, he was elected distinguished lecturer by the IEEE Communications Society, and in 2018, he was re-elected for another two-year term. In 2017, he initiated and since then has been the head of delegation for the Turkish National Body for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 (JPEG and MPEG). He was also listed among the world's most influential scientists in the subfield of networking and telecommunications in 2020 and 2021.
To learn more about Ali's projects, publications, talks, and teaching, standards and professional activities, visit https://ali.begen.net.
After finishing my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in 2001, I went to Georgia Tech to get my PhD in electrical and computer engineering. Since then, I have been working on problems associated with multimedia applications that generate many (often high-bandwidth and time-critical) flows of information with complex inter-flow semantic relationships. After graduating in 2006, I started at Cisco's Video and Content Platforms Research and Advanced Development Group. I architected, designed and developed algorithms, protocols, products and solutions in the service provider and enterprise video domains. Papers, talks and presentations from my Cisco projects are available here.
I left Cisco in late 2015 and started my own company - Networked Media, where I offer consulting services to media-tech companies and law firms in the IP video space. In June 2016, I also started as a faculty at Ozyegin University Computer Science Department, where I am currently teaching networking and multimedia courses to grads and undergrads. I also spend a considerable amount of time on services in the academic world.
Upcoming/Recent Talks
- Multi-CDN Delivery (video)
SVTA Webinar - Oct. 2024 - DASH and Media-over-QUIC Transport Face-Off: Performance Showdown at Low Latency (link)
SMPTE MTS - Oct. 2024 - Impact of Prioritized HTTP/3 Transport
on Low-Latency Live Streaming (slides)
HLS Interest Workshop - Oct. 2024 - DASH and Media-over-QUIC Transport Face-Off: Performance Showdown at Low Latency (link, slides, video)
RTC.ON - Sept. 2024 - The Age of TCP is Over, The Time of MOQ has Come (link)
IEEE ICME ULLRMD'24 Keynote - July 2024 - DASH and Media-over-QUIC Transport Face-Off: Performance Showdown at Low Latency (link)
IEEE ICME LIVES'24 Keynote - July 2024 - MOQing the World at Low Latencies (link, slides)
11th Media Web Symp. - June 2024 - MOQing the World at Low Latencies (link/video)
CommCon - June 2024 - Unifying Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery with Media-over-QUIC Transport
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - May 2024 - The Road to Low Latency with Media-over-QUIC Transport: Unified Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery (link)
Huawei Strategy and Technology Workshop (STW) - May 2024 - The Age of TCP is Over, The Time of MOQ has Come (recording)
Georgia Tech CS 8803MN Guest Lecture - Apr. 2024 - Unifying Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery with Media-over-QUIC Transport
Orange Innovation - Apr. 2024 - Unifying Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery with Media-over-QUIC Transport (link)
SVTA Segments - Feb. 2024 - Unifying Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery with Media-over-QUIC Transport
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Feb. 2024- Feb 5th: Georgia Tech (link/slides/recording)
- Feb 19th: UT Dallas (link/slides/recording)
- Unifying Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery with Media-over-QUIC Transport (link, slides)
ATSC PT-4 (Future Broadcast Ecosystem Technologies) - Dec. 2023 - Streaming Media: Algorithms, Protocols and Systems (link)
ACM MMAsia Tutorial - Dec. 2023 - Unifying Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery with Media-over-QUIC Transport (link/slides/recording)
DASH-IF Special Session on Media over QUIC - Dec. 2023 - Need for Low Latency: Media over QUIC
Adobe Research - Oct. 2023 - Network-Empowered Scalable, Reliable and Secure Media Delivery (link)
IEEE ICIP Tutorial - Oct. 2023 - Need for Low Latency: Media over QUIC (link)
IEEE ICIP Industry Expert Session - Oct. 2023 - Media over QUIC: Initial Testing, Findings and Results (link)
IEEE ICIP Industry Demonstrations - Oct. 2023 - This Little MOQ Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us X Milliseconds
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Oct. 2023- Oct. 6th: Nanyang Technological University
- Oct. 6th: National University of Singapore (link)
- This Little MOQ Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us X Milliseconds (link)
SF Video Technology Meetup - July 2023 - This Little MOQ Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Milliseconds (link, video)
CommCon - June 2023 - This Little MOQ Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Milliseconds (link)
10th Media Web Symp. - June 2023 - Catching the Moment in Low-Latency Live Streaming (link, slides)
SVTA Segments - May 2023 - Need for Low Latency: Media over QUIC (link, slides)
ACM MHV - May 2023 - Bandwidth Prediction in Low-Latency Media Transport (link, slides)
ACM MHV - May 2023 - A Master's Toolbox and Algorithms for Low-Latency Live Streaming (link/slides)
VSF VidTrans - Feb. 2023 - Server/Client Cooperation in Low-Latency Live Streaming
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Feb. 2023- Feb. 24th: University of Southern California
- Feb. 27th: IEEE San Diego Section (link)
- Server/Client Cooperation in Low-Latency Live Streaming (link/video)
WOS - Nov. 2022 - Catching the Moment in Low-Latency Live Streaming (link/video/slides)
EBU Horizons - Nov. 2022 - Catching the Moment: Live Streaming at Scale (link/video, slides)
StreamTV World Show Keynote - Nov. 2022 - Measuring Experience in Low-Latency Live Streaming
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Nov. 2022 - Upgrading Performance of Your Streaming Services Using Server Hints (link, slides)
SMPTE Media Technology Summit - Oct. 2022 - Catching the Moment in Low-Latency Live Streaming (link, slides, video)
Demuxed - Oct. 2022 - Network-Empowered Scalable, Reliable and Secure Media Delivery (link)
IEEE ICME Tutorial - July 2022 - The Benefits of Server-Client Cooperation When DASHing or HLSing (link)
9th Media Web Symp. - June 2022 - A Master's Toolbox and Algorithms for Low-Latency Live Streaming (link)
ACM MMSys Keynote - June 2022 - Content-Aware Adaptive Playback for Low-Latency Live Sports
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - June 2022- June 13th: University College London (UCL)
- Automated Adaptive Playback for Encoder-Adjudicated Live Sports (link, slides and video)
Streaming Tech Sweden - June 2022 - Content-Aware Adaptive Playback (podcast)
The Video Insiders Podcast (Episode 73) - Jan. 2022 - Adaptive Streaming of Content-Aware-Encoded Videos in dash.js
Int. Broadcasting Convention Conf. (IBC) - Dec. 2021 - You Deserve Low-Latency Sports and We Serve It via Content-Aware Playback (link, slides, video)
Demuxed - Oct. 2021 - Advances in Multimedia Streaming: Algorithms, Standards and Optimization Techniques (link)
IEEE ICIP Tutorial - Sept. 2021 - A Master's Toolbox and Algorithms for Low-Latency Live Streaming (link)
IEEE MIPR Tutorial - Sept. 2021 - Manus Manum Lavat: Media Clients and Servers Cooperating with Common Media Client/Server Data (link, slides, video)
ACM/IRTF ANRW (Invited talk) - July 2021
Recent News
- MPEG 148 in Antalya (link)
- Runner-up in Microsoft's grand challenge on "Bandwidth Estimation"
- SVTA Industry Fellow (link)
- MPEG 142 in Antalya (link)
- ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper Award in the category of multimedia systems-networking (link)
- Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering for standardization of HTTP encapsulated protocols (NATAS press release, ISO press release, MPEG press release, my posts (EN/TR), OzU news (EN/TR), Bilkent news (EN/TR))
