Ali C. Begen is with the Video and Content Platforms Research and Advanced Development Group at Cisco. His interests include networked entertainment, Internet multimedia, transport protocols and content distribution. Ali is currently working on architectures for next-generation video transport and distribution over IP networks, and he is an active contributor in the IETF in these areas.

Ali holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech. He received the Best Student-paper Award at IEEE ICIP 2003, the Most-cited Paper Award from Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication in 2008, and the Best-paper Award at Packet Video Workshop 2012. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. For publications and presentations, visit http://ali.begen.net.