About Me

Quality of Experience and User Experience in multimedia applications
Video streaming (Video on Demand and IPTV) and audiovisual interactive web applications
Assessment of user behavior and user engagement in online video services
Design and evaluation of testing procedures for acquiring qualitative and quantitative subjective data from human observers in laboratory and mobile contexts
Multimedia software development

Since 2018: Founder, CEO at AVEQ GmbH, Austria
2018: Researcher at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
2015–2018: Researcher at Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
2014–2015: Researcher at Assessment of IP-based Applications, TU Berlin, Germany
2013–2014: Software engineer and project manager, salesXp GmbH, Vienna, Austria
2009–2012: Researcher, Entertainment Computing Research Group, University of Vienna, Austria
2008–2013: IT and network support, 3s Unternehmensberatung GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Since 2016: PhD student, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
2011–2014: Master in Media Informatics (Dipl.-Ing.), University of Vienna, Austria
2007–2011: Bachelor in Informatics (BSc.), University of Vienna, Austria

Best Reviewer Award, 11th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience, (QoMEX), 2019
Reviewer Recognition Award, 9th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2017
Best Student Paper Award, 7th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2015
“Best of the Best”, Best Masters degree in Media Informatics, University of Vienna, 2015
“Best of the Best”, 3rd best Bachelor degree in Computer Science, University of Vienna, 2012

Conferences:

ACM Multimedia Conference (2024)
ACM Multimedia Systems Workshop on Green Multimedia Systems (GMSys), 2023
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), 2022–2024
International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2017–2024
QoE Management Workshop at 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN), 2019
Communications Software, Services, and Multimedia Applications Symposium at IEEE International Conference on Communications (CSSMA), 2019
Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications Workshop at IEEE Global Communications Conference (QoEMC), 2016
Forth International Workshop on Quality of Experience Centric Management (QCMan), 2016
IEEE Workshop on Quality of Experience-based Management for Future Internet Applications and Services (QoE-FI), 2016

Journal Reviewing:

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, since 2018
Springer Multimedia Systems, since 2016
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, since 2016
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, since 2016
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, since 2016
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, since 2015
Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, since 2013

Publicity Chair, ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX), 2023
Web and Publications Co-Chair, 9th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2017
General Co-Chair, International Young Researcher Summit on Quality of Experience in Emerging Multimedia Services (QEEMS), 2017
Panel Co-Chair, Cloud Networks Track, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2016
Session Chair, 5th ISCA/DEGA Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS), 2016

2021: “How to monitor a streaming service – what could possibly go wrong?“, Berlin Video Tech Meetup, online
2020: “Video Quality Measurements in the Crowd – A Case Study from Germany”, ITU-T QSDG Webinar Series: Crowdsourcing for Regulators – Case studies and frameworks, online
2018: “Video and web service quality monitoring using ITU-T standards at Deutsche Telekom”, ITU Workshop on Telecommunication Service Quality, Regulatory Frameworks and Experience-Driven Networking, Geneva, Switzerland
2017: “Monitoring QoE of HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming”, ITG Fachausschuss Bildkommunikation und Bildverarbeitung, TU Ilmenau, Germany
2016: “User Behavior in Web Video Services – Thoughts on our current Research Tools”, Research seminar, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
2015: “Ecologically valid Video Quality Testing?”, with Marie-Neige Garcia (TU Berlin), [Your/the community’s] Recent and future experiences with QoE Workshop, TU Ilmenau, Germany
2015: “From pure technical viewing quality to more realistic audiovisual QoE testing”, ETSI Workshop on Telecommunication Quality beyond 2015, Vienna, Austria
2012: “Observer Confidence in Subjective Quality Evaluation”, Séminaires IRCCyN, Nantes, France