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Dr. Abdelhak Bentaleb, PhD

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Software Engineering


Dr. Abdelhak Bentaleb, PhD

Biography (Abdelhak Bentaleb)

Dr. Abdelhak Bentaleb is an Assistant professor of Computer Science at Concordia University. He is also one of the co-founders of Atlastream PTE LTD. Dr. Bentaleb has been selected as an Area Chair (AC) and chair session for the ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) at Lisbon, Portugal. Also, he served as reproducibility chair for the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) in the last three years.

His main research interests are in networking and multimedia systems optimizations with machine learning, networked multimedia and systems, computer systems and networks, video streaming architecture and content delivery, Immersive media technologies, networked game systems, network systems and protocols, edge and distributed computing, wireless communication and mobile networking, applied machine and deep learning systems in networking, IoT systems. 

His current research project and goal is to design and build practical machine/deep learning models for large-scale real-world networked systems. Specifically, it focuses on investigating a new paradigm based on practical machine/deep learning techniques for solving challenging QoE optimization and congestion control problems in video delivery systems. Rather than design fixed algorithms, the aim is to develop data-driven systems that can dynamically learn to optimize the performance on their own using modern machine and deep learning techniques (e.g., deep reinforcement learning, meta learning, imitation learning, and supervised learning). As a result of well understanding and optimizing the video streaming QoE as well as adjusting congestion control based on various requirements of video streaming applications and services. 

He obtained his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore and his dissertation was about enabling optimizations of video delivery in HTTP Adaptive Streaming, received two prestigious awards: SIGMM Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis and DASH Industry Forum Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. He continued to serve as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow for three years at National University of Singapore. Many papers (more than 40) resulting from his research have been published in top venues on the above related research topics and he won several prestigious awards.


Teaching activities

Courses 2007-2024:

Advanced Topics in First Peoples Studies: Wampum Belts (FPST 498)
Contemporary Politics in First Peoples Communities (FPST 401)
First Peoples' Cinema (FPST 298 / FMST 217)
First Peoples of Canada (FPST 203)
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples (FPST 341)
Intro to First Peoples Studies (FPST 201)
MFA Seminar: Indigenous Cinema of the Americas (Studio Arts, ASEM 654)
Le Cinéma québécois (FMST 215)
Film History to 1959 (FMST 211)
Films on Art (FFAR 298)
Film Aesthetics (FMST 212)


Publications

Exhibitions

- BACA 2024 (@ DRAC, Drummondville), March 23 - May 16, 2024:

Onyionhwentsïio' (video loop, sound, text)


- Méduse permanent collection, Québec city, Dec. 2023 - ongoing (5th floor):

Wampum-vitrail #3 (lightboxes and wampum belt with shell and crystal beads)


- daphne Indigenous art centre, Montréal, Nov. 3 - Jan. 13, 2023, two works shown:

Wampum-écran-vitrail #2 (installation with wampum belt in shell and glass beads, light boxes, video projections)

Paix et guerre en même temps (
wampum with quahog shell, moose hide, and mirror)


- Group exhibition Yahndawa', Musée Huron-Wendat de Wendake, June - Sept. 2023, and Galerie Oeil de Poisson, Québec City, Sept-Oct. 2022:

Wampum-écran-vitrail #1 (installation with wampum in shell and glass beads, video projections)


Awards and Honors

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