My Background
Ali C. Begen is a computer science professor at Ozyegin University in Istanbul and the founder of Networked Media, a technology consulting firm specializing in IP video. Through his consultancy, he provides expert services to media-tech companies and law firms. Previously, he was a technical lead at Cisco in San Jose, California. Begen earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2006. Throughout his career, he has been recognized with numerous academic and industry accolades, including an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering. He holds over 40 US patents and is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and ACM. More details are at https://ali.begen.net.
Ali C. Begen is a computer science professor at Ozyegin University in Istanbul and the founder of Networked Media, a technology consulting firm specializing in IP video. Through his consultancy, he provides expert services to media-tech companies and law firms. Previously, he was a technical lead at Cisco in San Jose, California, where he designed and developed advanced algorithms, protocols and products for service provider and enterprise video domains.
Dr. Begen earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2006. Throughout his career, he has been recognized with numerous academic and industry accolades, including an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering. He holds over 40 US patents and is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and ACM.
In 2016, Dr. Begen was selected as a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Communications Society, a position he was re-elected to for a second two-year term in 2018. Since 2017, he has led the Turkish National Body for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 (JPEG and MPEG) as Head of Delegation. He was also named one of the world’s most influential scientists in networking and telecommunications in both 2020 and 2021. To learn more about his work 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
- Catching the Moment: Low-Latency Live Streaming at Scale (link, slides)
NUS ARTIC Technical Seminar - Nov. 2024 - 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 - Unifying Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery with Media-over-QUIC Transport
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program- Oct. 4th, 2024: UMass Amherst (link)
- Sept. 20th, 2024: Ghent University
- 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 - The Road to Low Latency with Media-over-QUIC Transport: Unified Real-Time Communications and Content Delivery
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. 5th, 2024: Georgia Tech (link/slides/recording)
- Feb. 19th, 2024: UT Dallas (link/slides/recording)
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))
