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. The Institute is greatly strengthened by the participation of these eminent scientists.
The current members of our Scientific Council are:
Prof. Dr. Hari BALAKRISHNAN
Position: Professor at 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@csail.mit.edu
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M.Sc. Gonzalo CAMARILLO
Position: Head of the Advanced Signaling Research Laboratory - Nomadic Laboratory, Ericsson Finland (Suomi, Finland)
M.Sc.: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) Tekniska Högskolan, (Royal Institute of Technology) (Stockholm, Sweden)
Research: Signaling; Multimedia applications; Transport protocols; Network security.
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: gonzalo.camarillo@ericsson.com
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Prof. Dr. Jon CROWCROFT
Position: Marconi Professor at University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
PhD: University College London (London, UK)
Research: QoS sensitive routing, scheduling and signaling protocols.
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk
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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@cs.umass.edu
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Dr. Huw OLIVER
Position: Independent Computer & Network Security Professional 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: huwoliver@blueyonder.co.uk
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, wireless, ad hoc and autonomic networking.
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: ioannis@di.uoa.gr
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Prof. Dr. Ralf STEINMETZ
Position: President of Board of Trustees IMDEA Networks (Madrid, Spain) Managing Director of Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM)– and 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).
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: Ralf.Steinmetz@kom.tu-darmstadt.de
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M.Sc. David del VAL LATORRE
Position: Director of End User Services – Telefonica I+D (Madrid, Spain)
Dip.Ing: University of Stanford (California, USA)
Research: Video retransmission via the Internet; interactive TV; video on demand; domestic technology.
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: ddelval@tid.es
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Prof. Dr. Lixia ZHANG
Position: Professor at University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, USA)
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Massachusetts, USA)
Research: Resiliency and security issues in the Internet infrastructure (e.g. the global routing system and Domain Name System (DNS)); the system challenges in deploying cryptographic protections in global scale open systems (e.g. the Internet)
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: lixia@cs.ucla.edu
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Prof. Dr. Zhi-Li ZHANG
Position: Qwest Chair Professor at University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA)
PhD: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Massachusetts, USA)
Research: Building highly scalable, resilient and secure Internet infrastructure and mechanisms to enhance Internet service availability, reliability and security; Developing next-generation, service-oriented, manageable Internet architectures to provide better support for creation, deployment, operations and management of value-added Internet services and underlying networks.
Joining Date: July 2007
Contact: zhzhang@cs.umn.edu
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