BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Canberra BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20261004T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20260405T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260615T201912Z UID:2021760F-B9E1-4A5A-8F9F-3E7B4309BF9C DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Canberra:20260812T150000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Canberra:20260812T170000 DESCRIPTION:Ioannis Katsavounidis (SM) studied Electrical Engineering at th e Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece\, from 1986-1991\, where h e received a 5-year B.S. degree with double specialization in Electronics/ Computer Engineering and Telecommunications. He continued his graduate stu dies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (U SC)\, CA\, USA\, from 1991-1998\, receiving M.S.\, EEE and Ph.D. degrees i n 1992\, 1997 and 1998 respectively. His work and research were focused on Signal Processing\, as part of the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI)\, with minor in Telecommunications and another minor program in Mat hematics.\n\nDr. Katsavounidis was part of Caltech’s High Energy Physics department research team at the Italian National Laboratory at Gran Sasso (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso – LNGS) (1996 to 2000)\; member\, Italian network of research institutes in Nuclear Physics (Istituto Nazion ale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN)\, working as engineer for the MACRO (Mono poles\, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory) large-scale high-energy p hysics experiment. He worked at InterVideo\, a startup company based in Fr emont\, CA\, USA (2000 to 2007)\; co-founder\, CTO and Chief Scientist of Cidana\, San Francisco Bay Area\, CA\, USA (2007 to 2008)\; Associate Prof essor\, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Universit y of Thessaly in Volos\, Greece (2008 to 2015)\; Senior Research Scientist at Netflix in Los Gatos\, CA\, USA\, (2015 to 2018). He is a Research Sci entist at Meta Platforms in Menlo Park\, CA\, USA\, (2018 till present) pa rt of the Video Infrastructure team\, supporting all video processing for the popular Facebook\, Instagram and Messenger applications. He led the ef forts from Video Infrastructure to design Meta’s Scalable Video Processo r (MSVP)\, a custom ASIC that is used in Meta’s datacenters for all the back-end transcoding and quality measurement tasks. MSVP received in 2024 the 75th Technology and Engineering Emmy Award in the “Design and Deploy ment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud” category.\n\nDr . Katsavounidis has been serving as co-chair of the Software Implementatio n Working Group (SIWG) at the Alliance for Open Media\, as a co-chair of t he No-Reference Quality Metrics (NORM) and Statistical Analysis Methods (S AM) groups at the Video Quality Experts Group. He holds two music degrees\ ; a BA in music theory\, awarded in 1990 by the Macedonian School of Music in Thessaloniki\, Greece and a MA in classical piano performance\, awarde d in 1991 by the School of Music in Veria\, Greece.\n\nDr. Katsavounidis i s a Senior Member of IEEE\; Member\, IEEE Signal Processing (SPS) and IEEE Computers and Systems (CAS) societies. He is a member of SPIE and the Tec hnical Chamber of Greece. He received the Distinguished Alumni award (seni or industry category) at the 50th anniversary of the Signal and Image Proc essing Institute at the University of Southern California in 2022. He has organized and led industry workshops at ICIP conferences since 2019 and IC ASSP conferences since 2023.\n\nBldg: Birch Building\, Seminar Room 2.02\, Australian National University \, Acton\, Australian Capital Territory\, Australia\, 2602\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/563868 LOCATION:Bldg: Birch Building\, Seminar Room 2.02\, Australian National Uni versity \, Acton\, Australian Capital Territory\, Australia\, 2602\, Virtu al: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/563868 ORGANIZER:Ambarish.natu@gmail.com SEQUENCE:13 SUMMARY:Video Streaming Principals and Quality/Efficiency Optimization URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/563868 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Ioannis Katsavounidis (SM) studied Electri cal Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece\, fro m 1986-1991\, where he received a 5-year B.S. degree with double specializ ation in Electronics/Computer Engineering and Telecommunications.&nbsp\; H e continued his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the Universi ty of Southern California (USC)\, CA\, USA\, from 1991-1998\, receiving M. S.\, EEE and Ph.D. degrees in 1992\, 1997 and 1998 respectively. His work and research were focused on Signal Processing\, as part of the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI)\, with minor in Telecommunications and another minor program in Mathematics.</p>\n<p>Dr. Katsavounidis was part o f Caltech&rsquo\;s High Energy Physics department research team at the Ita lian National Laboratory at Gran Sasso (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sass o &ndash\; LNGS) (1996 to 2000)\; member\, Italian network of research ins titutes in Nuclear Physics (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare &ndash\; INFN)\, working as engineer for the MACRO (Monopoles\, Astrophysics and C osmic Ray Observatory) large-scale high-energy physics experiment.&nbsp\; He worked at InterVideo\, a startup company based in Fremont\, CA\, USA (2 000 to 2007)\; co-founder\, CTO and Chief Scientist of Cidana\, San Franci sco Bay Area\, CA\, USA (2007 to 2008)\; Associate Professor\, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Thessaly in Vo los\, Greece (2008 to 2015)\; Senior Research Scientist at Netflix in Los Gatos\, CA\, USA\, (2015 to 2018).&nbsp\; He is a Research Scientist at Me ta Platforms in Menlo Park\, CA\, USA\, (2018 till present) part of the Vi deo Infrastructure team\, supporting all video processing for the popular Facebook\, Instagram and Messenger applications.&nbsp\; He led the efforts from Video Infrastructure to design Meta&rsquo\;s Scalable Video Processo r (MSVP)\, a custom ASIC that is used in Meta&rsquo\;s datacenters for all the back-end transcoding and quality measurement tasks.&nbsp\; MSVP recei ved in 2024 the 75th Technology and Engineering Emmy Award in the &ldquo\; Design and Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud&r dquo\; category.</p>\n<p>Dr. Katsavounidis has been serving as co-chair of the Software Implementation Working Group (SIWG) at the Alliance for Open Media\, as a co-chair of the No-Reference Quality Metrics (NORM) and Stat istical Analysis Methods (SAM) groups at the Video Quality Experts Group. He holds two music degrees\; a BA in music theory\, awarded in 1990 by the Macedonian School of Music in Thessaloniki\, Greece and a MA in classical piano performance\, awarded in 1991 by the School of Music in Veria\, Gre ece.</p>\n<p>Dr. Katsavounidis is a Senior Member of IEEE\; Member\, IEEE Signal Processing (SPS) and IEEE Computers and Systems (CAS) societies. He is a member of SPIE and the Technical Chamber of Greece.&nbsp\; He receiv ed the Distinguished Alumni award (senior industry category) at the 50th a nniversary of the Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California in 2022.&nbsp\; He has organized and led industry w orkshops at ICIP conferences since 2019 and ICASSP conferences since 2023. </p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR