The Scientific Council is a very important organ of IMDEA Networks, advising us on all aspects of the Institute’s scientific activities. Among many other things, the Council proposes the incorporation and renewal of Scientific Expert members of the Board of Trustees; reviews and approves scientific appointments, and generally provides support to the Deputy Director in determining scientific research strategy and policies.
The Institute’s Scientific Council is composed of internationally-prestigious researchers in the field of Telematics and Internet technologies. IMDEA Networks is greatly strengthened by the participation of these eminent scientists. The current members are:
Prof. Dr. Hari BALAKRISHNAN
Position: Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Massachusetts. USA
PhD: University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley. USA
Research: Networked computer systems, spanning overlay and peer-to-peer networks, network protocols and architecture, wireless and sensor networks, and distributed data management
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: hari ( at ) csail.mit.edu
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Dr. Gonzalo CAMARILLO
Position: Principal Researcher at the Nomadic Laboratory, Ericsson Research Finland. Suomi. Finland
Ph.D.: Aalto University. Helsinki. Finland
M.Sc.: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Spain; Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology). Stockholm, Sweden
Research: Signaling; Multimedia applications; Transport protocols; Network security; Networking architectures
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: gonzalo.camarillo ( at ) ericsson.com
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Prof. Dr. Jon CROWCROFT
Position: Marconi Professor of Communication Systems at University of Cambridge. Cambridge. UK
PhD: University College London. London. UK
Research: Opportunistic communications; privacy in the cloud; carbon neutral networking
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: jon.crowcroft ( at ) cl.cam.ac.uk
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Prof. Dr. Gustavo DE VECIANA
Position: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. USA
PhD: University of California at Berkeley. USA
Research: Analysis and Design of Wireless and Wireline Telecommunication Networks; Architectures and Protocols to Support Sensing and Pervasive Computing; Applied Probability, Queueing and Information Theory
Joining date: November 2010
Contact: gustavo ( at ) ece.utexas.edu
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Prof. Dr. Edward Knightly
Position: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. Houston. Texas. USA
PhD: University of California at Berkeley. Berkely. USA
Research: Wireless Networks and Protocols; Wireless Access for Developing Regions; Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Joining Date: November 2010
Contact: knightly ( at ) rice.edu
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Prof. Dr. Jim KUROSE
Position: Interim Dean and Distinguished University Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Massachusetts. USA
PhD: Columbia University of New York City. New York. USA
Research: Network protocols and architecture; Network measurement; Sensor Networks; Multimedia communication; Modeling and performance evaluation
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: kurose ( at ) cs.umass.edu
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Dr. Huw OLIVER
Position: Independent Computer & Network Security Professional at University of Bristol and the Civil Aviation Authority (former Technical Director, European Research Consortium, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories). Bristol. UK
PhD: University College Aberystwyth. Aberystwyth. UK
Research: Computer & Network Security; Wireless OSS; Wireline Core and Access Networks
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: huw.oliver1 ( at ) btinternet.com
Dr. Pablo RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ
Position: Research Director, Telefonica R&D. Spain; Director, Barcelona Telefonica R&D Lab. Spain; Adjunct Faculty Professor, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University of New York City. USA
PhD: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Lausanne. Switzerland
Research: Networking; Distributed Systems; Information Theory; Wireless and Mobile; Network Economics; Social Networks
Joining Date: November 2010
Contact: pablorr ( at ) tid.es
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Prof. Dr. Ioannis STAVRAKAKIS
Position: Full Professor at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Athens. Greece
PhD: University of Virginia. Charlottesville. USA
Research: Resource allocation protocols and traffic management for communication networks, with recent emphasis on peer-to-peer, mobile, ad hoc, autonomic and social networking
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: ioannis ( at ) di.uoa.gr
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Prof. Dr. Ralf STEINMETZ
Position: President of Board of Trustees of IMDEA Networks (Madrid, Spain); Managing Director of Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) and Full Professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Darmstadt. Germany
PhD: Technische Universität Darmstadt. Darmstadt. Germany
Research: Networked multimedia issues with the vision of "seamless multimedia communications"; i.e. network dependability and security (e.g. gateways, firewalls); quality of service (e.g. network engineering); content distribution networks (e.g. streaming); context aware communications (e.g. peer-to-peer mechanisms); media semantics (e.g. ontology enrichment, metadata). He relates these research issues often very closely to mobility, internet telephony, telemedia learning and serious gaming
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: Ralf.Steinmetz ( at ) kom.tu-darmstadt.de
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