Director (on leave) | Deputy Director | Chief Researchers | Senior Researchers | Visiting Researchers | Staff & Post-Doc Researchers | Research Assistants | Research Support
Director (on leave)
Dr. Arturo AZCORRA
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Arturo Azcorra is currently on leave from his post as Director of IMDEA Networks, whilst he holds the position of General Director at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
Affiliation: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
PhD: Polytechnic University of Madrid. Spain
Research: Carrier-grade Wireless Mesh Networks; Future Media Internet; Multi-path Protocols; Vehicular Networks.
Joining date: October 2007
Deputy Director
Dr. Albert BANCHS
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Deputy Director
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
PhD: Polytechnical University of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain
Research: Performance evaluation and resource allocation in wireless networks
Joining date: September 2009
Contact: albert.banchs@imdea.org
Chief Researchers
Dr. Marco AJMONE MARSAN
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Chief Researcher
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and Politecnico di Torino. Italy
PhD: Budapest University of Technology and Economics (honoris causa). Hungary
Research: High-speed telecommunication networks, with particular emphasis on wireless and all-optical networks and performance evaluation of data communication and computer systems, with Markovian models, queueing networks, and Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets
Joining date: December 2008
Contact: marco.ajmone@imdea.org
Dr. Nicholas F. MAXEMCHUK
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Chief Researcher
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and Columbia University in the City of New York. USA
PhD: University of Pennsylvania. USA
Research: Random Coding network services; advanced network design for QoS deployment; traffic engineering in wireless networks
Joining date: March 2008
Contact: nicholas.maxemchuk@imdea.org
Senior Researchers
Dr. Sergey GORINSKY
Position: Senior Researcher
PhD: University of Texas at Austin. USA
Research: Computer networking and distributed systems
Joining date: June 2009
Contact: sergey.gorinsky@imdea.org
Dr. José Félix KUKIELKA
Position: Senior Researcher
PhD: University of California at Berkeley. USA
Previous Position: University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain
Research: Wideband access to private networks; Quality of Service in Wireless networks; Service-aware Wireless Routing; Wireless. Protocol Optimization for High-throughput Data and Voice
Joining date: August 2008
Contact: josefelix.kukielka@imdea.org
Visiting Researchers
Dr. Marwan M. KRUNZ
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Visiting Researcher
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid (Cátedra de Excelencia)
PhD: Michigan State University. USA
University of origin: The University of Arizona. USA
Research: Communications Technology and Networking, with particular emphasis on Optimal Resource Allocation, Adaptive Control, and Distributed Protocol Design
Joining date: March 2010
Contact: 
Dr. Reza REJAIE
Position: Visiting Researcher
PhD: University of Southern California (USC). USA
University of origin: University of Oregon. USA
Previous Position: Senior Technical Staff, AT&T Labs - Research
Research: Multimedia Networking; P2P Networking; Network Measurement; Online Social Networks
Joining date: September 2009
Contact: reza.rejaie@imdea.org
Staff & Post-Doc Researchers
Dr. Balaji RENGARAJAN
Position: Staff Researcher
PhD: The University of Texas at Austin. USA
Previous Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Research: Measurement, modeling and performance evaluation of wireless networks, ad-hoc and sensor networks
Joining date: October 2009
Contact: balaji.rengarajan@imdea.org
Dr. Gianluca RIZZO
Position: Staff Researcher
PhD: EPFL Lausanne. Switzerland
Research: Performance evaluation of communication networks, Network Calculus, Quality of Service
Joining date: September 2009
Contact: gianluca.rizzo@imdea.org
Research Assistants
Pradeep BANGERA
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Pos.: Manipal Institute of technology, Manipal University. India.
Research: Routing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks; Security and Privacy Issues in VANET; MAC Layer Routing in VANET
Joining date: November 2009
Contact:
Alex BIKFALVI
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant, financed by FPU scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Education
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Position: Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca. Romania
Research: Peer-to-peer; Overlay Networks; Hierarchical Overlay Networks; Distributed Hash Tables; Application Level Multicast; Video Streaming; Grid Resource Discovery; Content Distribution
Joining date: October 2007
Contact: alex.bikfalvi@imdea.org
Marco GRAMAGLIA
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant, financed by FPU scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Education
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Position: Politecnico di Torino. Turin. Italy
Research: Mobile Neworks in a vehicular environment
Joining Date: October 2008
Contact: marco.gramaglia@imdea.org
Michal KRYCZKA
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant, financed by FPU scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Education
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Position: Technical University of Lodz. Poland
Research: A Framework for the extension of addressing spaces
Joining Date: October 2008
Contact: michal.kryczka@imdea.org
Andra LUTU
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Pos.: Polytechnical University of Madrid. Spain
Research: Inter-domain Routing; Traffic Engineering; BGP; Routing Scalability
Joining date: October 2009
Contact:
Nikunj MODI
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Pos.: Uppsala University. Sweden
Research: Mobile High Speed Networks (HSPA, 4G, LTE, etc); Mobility; Network Neutrality; Network Economics
Joining date: September 2009
Contact:
Shailendra NATRAJ
Paul PATRAS
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant, financed by FPU scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Education
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Position: Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca. Romania
Research: Wireless Mesh Networks; IEEE 802.11; Performance Evaluation; Throughput Optimisation; Adaptive MAC Mechanisms; Quality-aware Routing and Capacity Handling
Joining date: October 2007
Contact: paul.patras@imdea.org
Tuan Tu PHAM
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Pos.: IT Convergence Campus, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST-ICC). Deajeon. South Korea
Research: Routing Protocols in MANETs and Multi-Channels Multi-Radios WMNs
Joining date: October 2009
Contact:
Ubaid ur REHMAN
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Pos.: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Stockholm. Sweden
Research: Long Term Evolution (LTE); Fast Handover and Seamless Mobility in Heterogeneous Technologies; Routing Protocols
Joining date: September 2009
Contact:
Syed Anwar UI HASAN
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
University of origin: Telecom ParisTech - Institut Eurecom. France
Research: Information Theory; Adhoc Networks - Sensor and Mesh; Internet Protocol Architectures; Cryptography; Network Economics
Joining date: September 2009
Contact:
Iljitsch VAN BEIJNUM
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Pos.: Haagse Hogeschool. The Hague University. Netherlands
Research: Routing; BGP (Border Gateway Protocol); Inter-domain Routing; Routing Scalability; TCP (Transmission Control Protocol); Multipath; Multipath Routing; Multipath TCP; IPv6
Joining date: October 2007
Contact: iljitsch.vanbeijnum@imdea.org
Kshitiz VERMA
IMDEA Networks Job Title: Research Assistant
Affiliation: IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid
Previous Pos.: Indian Institute of Technology. Kanpur. India; National Center for Biological Sciences. Bangalore. India
Research: Cryptography; Number Theory; Information Security; Computer Networks
Joining date: November 2009
Contact:
Research Support
Mark EVAMY
Position: General Manager
Qualifications: MBA ESCP-EAP European School of Management-Ecole Supérieure de Management. France
Previous Position: Consultant
Joining date: April 2007
Contact: mark.evamy@imdea.org