Video Services and the Mobile Web

Speaker:Dr. Giridhar D. Mandyam

Abstract: Online social communities have become an important distribution channel for video content. Services such as YouTube have been instrumental in providing a means for user generated video content to be communicated efficiently. The increasing penetration of smart phones now allow mobile users to access these online communities via the mobile browser, but the issues surrounding video delivery over cellular still are relevant. In this talk, the different types of participants in an online social community for video content are discussed along with their associated interactions. Given this model, preserving the targeted user experience over cellular can be challenging. Nevertheless, there exist several technical approaches that can still allow users to interact with online video communities regardless of the device they are using.


Biography:

Dr. Giridhar D. Mandyam is Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm Internet Services, San Diego, California. Born in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Mandyam received the BSEE degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Southern Methodist University in 1989, the MSEE degree from the University of Southern California in 1993, and the PhD EE degree from the University of New Mexico in 1996. At SMU he was a University Scholar and Hyer Society Scholar. While at USC he was a Teaching Assistant in the Signal and Image Processing Institute, and at UNM he studied under a NASA Fellowship. From 1989 to 1994, Dr. Mandyam held positions with Rockwell International and Qualcomm Inc. He worked at Texas Instruments from 1996 to 1998, and at Nokia from 1998 to 2006. While at Nokia, he held a number of research and management positions, including Head of the Nokia Research Center cite in San Diego, and Chief Technologist for North America. Dr. Mandyam is inventor or co-inventor of seventeen issued patents. He has also published over 70 conference and journal papers, and 4 book chapters. He is a co-author of the text Third-Generation CDMA Systems for Enhanced Data Services (Academic Press, 2002). He is presently a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Dr. Mandyam is a Senior Member of the IEEE.