Invited speakers
Dr. Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez
Technology Specialist, Network Virtualisation Initiative, Telefonica I+D - GCTO Unit. Spain
Dr. Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez has obtained his PhD at the University of Paderborn in 2013. Previously, he graduated at the Technical University of Madrid in Telecommunication Engineering in 1988. In 1990, he joined Telefonica I+D where he has participated in various panEuropean projects, mainly ACTS, IST and EURESCOM etc, all of them were related to
his areas of expertise, which include software defined networking (SDN), interdomain routing (BGP-4), broadband core networks (MPLS) and Network Virtualisation.
He works as a technology specialist in the Network Virtualisation Innitiative in the GCTO Unit, which includes research activities on cutting edge networking technologies. He has participated in EU projects since the RACE framework. Recently, he has participated in the 4WARD and SAIL projects of the 7th FP of IST. He has also assisted the European Commission as independent expert in FP5 & FP6 IST project technical reviews.
Jon Crowcroft
Marconi Professor of Communication Systems, University of Cambridge. Cambridge. UK
I am the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge, almost exactly 100 years after Marconi's "groundbreaking" first transatlantic wireless call, and i am a fellow of Wolfson College Until the end of September 2001, i was a professor in the Department of Computer Science University College London. i graduated in Physics from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1979. i got an MSc in Computing in 1981, and PhD in 1993 both from UCL. (before that i even went to primary and 2ndary school once). i'm a fellow of the ACM, ; the British Computer Society, the IE[ET] the royal academy of engineering and the IEEE. I'm a member of UCU and have been (or its equivalent) since 1979. John Crowcroft is not me, but is related, and does some fine art.
Philip Brighten Godfrey
Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
P. Brighten Godfrey is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in May 2009, advised by Ion Stoica, and his B.S. at Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. His research interests lie in the design and analysis of networked systems. He is a winner of the 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2012 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2010 IEEE Communications Society Data Storage Technical Committee Best Paper Award, and a best paper award at HotSDN 2012.
Matthias Hollick
Full Professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt. Darmstadt, Germany
Matthias Hollick is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. In 2009, he has been founding and is currently heading the Secure Mobile Networking Lab (SEEMOO), which is affiliated with the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), one of Europe's foremost IT-security research institutes. After receiving his Ph.D. degree from the TU Darmstadt in 2004, he has been researching and teaching at TU Darmstadt, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). His research focus is on robust, secure and privacy-preserving as well as quality-of-service-aware communication in mobile and wireless networks.
Website: http://www.seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de/team/matthias-hollick/
Edward Knightly
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University. Houston. Texas. USA
Edward Knightly is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.S. from Auburn University. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Sloan Fellow, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He received the best paper award from ACM MobiCom 2008 and serves on the IMDEA Networks Scientific Council.
Professor Knightly's research interests are in the areas of mobile and wireless networks with a focus on protocol design, performance evaluation, and at-scale field trials. He leads the Rice Networks Group. The group's current projects include deployment, operation, and management of a large-scale urban wireless network in a Houston under-resourced community. This network, Technology For All (TFA) Wireless, is serving over 4,000 users in several square kilometers and employs custom-built programmable and observable access points. The network is the first to provide residential access in frequencies spanning from unused UHF DTV bands to WiFi bands. Moreover, we developed the first multi-user beam-forming WLAN system that demonstrates a key performance feature to be provided by IEEE 802.11ac. We also co-developed a clean-slate-design hardware platform for high-performance wireless networks, WARP.
Website: http://www.ece.rice.edu/~knightly/
Amund Kvalbein
Senior Research Scientist, Simula Research Laboratory. Oslo, Norway
Amund Kvalbein is a Senior Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory in Oslo, Norway. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Oslo (2007). After finishing his PhD, he spent one year as a post doc at Georgia Institute of Technology, before returning to Oslo and Simula. He is currently leader of the Resilient Networks project, focusing on methods for improving the user-experienced stability and reliability of fixed and cellular communication networks. His current research interests are in the robustness and performance of networks and networked services, with a particular focus on measuring and improving the reliability of mobile broadband services.
Website: http://simula.no/people/amundk
