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ACM Mile-High Video 2023 (MHV/2023) is a flagship video coding and streaming event geared towards practicing engineers in areas related to media compression and streaming and organized by engineers and researchers from both industry and academia.

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Movers and Shakers of the Video Coding and Video Streaming Industry/Academy

OUR SPEAKERS' GALLERY

Will Law is Chief Architect within the Cloud Technology Group at Akamai and a leading media delivery technologist, involved with streaming media on the Internet for the last twenty years. Currently focusing on Media Over Quic, low latency streaming, MPEG DASH, technology evaluation, CMCD, CMSD, CAT, and WebTransport, Law is Co-Chair of the W3C WebTransport Working Group and the CTA Common Media Server Data Working Group and past President of the DASH Industry Forum and Chairman of the CTA WAVE Project. He holds Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA and prior to Akamai worked for a series of engineering and media-related startups.

Dan Grois received a PhD degree from the Communication Systems Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Be’er-Sheva, Israel, in 2011, where he was a Senior Researcher until 2013. From mid-2013 until 2017, he was a Senior Researcher with the Video Coding and Analytics Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications – Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin, Germany. Since 2017, he has been a Principal Researcher at Comcast, Philadelphia, PA, where he is mainly working on advanced perceptual video quality optimization techniques for HDR ultrahigh definition (UHD) video coding, including neural network-based optimizations. Dan was granted various fellowships, including the Kreitman Fellowships, ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship, and Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellowship. In addition, he actively participates in the video standardization activities of ISO/IEC and ITU-T organizations, such as JCT-VC and JVET, and is an active contributor of the HEVC and VVC standards. Dan is an author/coauthor of around 100 publications in the area of image/video coding and data processing. Since 2021, he is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), and since 2022, Dan is a Department Editor of the "Industry and Standards" section of the IEEE Multimedia Journal. Dan is a Senior member of IEEE, and a member ACM, SPIE, SCTE, SMPTE organizations.

Gwendal Simon is a Distinguished Software Architect at Synamedia specializing in CDN technology. His specialties include live video, AR, VR, and cloud gaming with a focus on scalability. Prior to joining Synamedia in 2021, Gwendal led a team of researchers in network measurement for Huawei and was a professor at IMT Atlantique, after completing his PhD in 2005. His research work took him to Canada’s University of Waterloo and Adobe Research in San Jose. He has co-authored over 100 conference/journal papers on network, multimedia, and systems. The papers have proved popular, winning several awards and securing more than 5,000 citations. He presents to both academia and industry and has been both chair and technical chair at international scientific conferences.

Sachin Deshpande (Senior Member, IEEE) received
his Ph.D. degree from the University
of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. He has been
with Sharp Labs of America since January 2000,
where he is currently a Director of Technology.
He has contributed several technologies to
ISO/IEC and ITU-T Versatile Video Coding (VVC),
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC),
Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC), MultiView
High Efficiency Video Coding (MV-HEVC),
MPEG Omnidirectional MediA Format (OMAF),
MPEG Systems, and ATSC 3.0 International standards.
He has several publications in reputed peer-reviewed journals, conferences,
and books. He holds more than 160 U.S. patents. He received Sharp Laboratories
“Department Inventor of the Year” award three times. He was a
recipient of Sharp Corporation Excellence Award for outstanding development
and contribution to next-generation video coding technologies and standard.
He is the Chair of MPEG Omnidirectional MediA Format Ad-Hoc group.
He was the Vice-Chair of the ATSC S33 Specialist Group on Management and Protocols
and the Chair of the ATSC S33-2 Service Announcement Ad-Hoc Group.
He is also an Editor of ISO/ IEC 23090-2 and 23090-7 and has been
the Editor of multiple ATSC 3.0 standards (A332, A333, and A338).

Ali C. Begen is currently a computer science professor at Ozyegin University and a technical consultant in the Advanced Technology and Standards group at Comcast. 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 a number of academic and industry awards, and was granted 30+ 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.

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Jan Ozer is currently a Senior Director of Video Technology Marketing at NETINT. Ozer started compressing video in 1993, and is a leading expert on audio/video encoding for live and on-demand production. He produces courses that help onboard streaming media practitioners and enhance their knowledge of various topics (https://courses.streaminglearningcenter.com/). Ozer is a contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, where he reviews codecs, on-premise and cloud encoders, and ancillary tools like QoE and QoS monitoring services. Ozer blogs at http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/ and is the author of over 20 streaming and video-related books, including Video Encoding by the Numbers: Eliminate the Guesswork from your Streaming Video, and Learn to Produce Videos with FFmpeg: In Thirty Minutes or Less.

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"Santhoshini Sekar heads the Video Codecs and Video Solutions Engineering team at MulticoreWare. She played a key role in MulticoreWare’s x265 project, which is an open-source project of the HEVC Video Codec Standard. Her work on x265 has set the gold standard for HEVC implementation and is being used by some of the leading broadcasting and OTT solution providers globally.
Santhoshini’s expertise also extends to MulticoreWare’s Ultraziq, a proprietary video codec that uses key features to improve the performance and compression efficiency of AVC, HEVC codecs.
In addition to her work on these cutting-edge video codecs, Santhoshini has also worked on various customer projects focused on improvements to video codec-based solutions and its adjacent areas in the Media and Entertainment Industry. She has published and been a speaker at several leading Video related Seminars and Conferences."

Siegfried Foessel holds a diploma and a doctorate in electrical engineering, both from the Friedrich
Alexander University in Erlangen. He is head of the Moving Picture Technologies department at
Fraunhofer IIS, Germany, and Professor for the Technology study program at the University of
Television and Film HFF in Munich. In addition, he is spokesman of the Fraunhofer Business Area
Digital Media.
His research projects to date include: development of digital cinema cameras such as ARRI D20/D21,
certification test plan for DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives), standardisation of digital cinema profiles for
JPEG2000, standardisation of JPEG XS and development of post-production tools for digital cinema
(easyDCP) and immersive audio (MPEG-H). Siegfried is member and chair of various national and
international standardisation bodies. He is SMPTE fellow and IEEE senior member with more than 70
publications. For FKTG (Fernseh-und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft), the German equivalent to SMPTE,
he served eight years as president.

Nelson Francisco received a MSc degree in Electronics Engineering in 2008 from the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal) and a PhD in Signal processing in 2012 from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Between 2007 and 2012 he collaborated with the Portuguese Telecommunication Institute (IT) on several government funded projects focused on image and video processing, while also working as an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal) from 2010 to 2012. In 2013, he joined the Multimedia Telecommunication group of the Poznan University of Technology (Poland) as a visitant Post-doc researcher, to work on multi-view video processing.
He joined Ericsson in 2013 as a Research Engineer, having collaborated in the development of the core compression algorithms used on both hardware and software encoding solutions for live and on-demand applications.
Since 2018, he has been a Principal Video Compression Engineer at MediaKind, mainly focusing his research on the use of AI and ML for media processing and delivery applications, ranging from encoder optimization to emerging topics such as super-resolution or video semantics analysis.

Jingwen Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in Nantes university of France, with a research focus on perceptual quality. Their thesis work involves developing predictive models for just noticeable differences (JNDs) in video quality, which can help improve video compression techniques and enhance the viewing experience for users.

Raul Diaz is Sr. Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO at Intel’s Network and Edge Group, where he
leads the video and AI software architecture team. He has worked for over 30 years on video
compression, AI-based video processing, computer vision, media transport, and IoT with 14 US patents
issued, 4 patents pending, papers published with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
(SMPTE), and many technical conference presentations.
Raul has a BSEE from Yale University, has guest-lectured for several years at Stanford University on
Computer Vision and Deep Learning, and is a member of IEEE. He joined Intel in 2019.

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