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Friedrich Kupzog

Dr. Friedrich Kupzog

Friedrich Kupzog

Friederich Kupzog is the Head of the Center for Energy at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, overseeing around 300 staff and driving strategic development in energy research.

He studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University and earned his doctorate (Dr. techn.) at TU Wien, focusing on Smart Grids.

Kupzog joined AIT in 2012 as Senior Scientist and Thematic Coordinator in the Center for Energy. He led the Competence Unit Electric Energy Systems and Power and Renewable Gas Systems. Prior roles include heading the “Energy & IT” research group at TU Wien's Institute for Computer Technology and work at Siemens Corporate Research on intelligent low-voltage networks.

Kupzog is a pioneer in Smart Grids, specializing in digitalization of energy systems, verification methods for networked Smart Grid technologies, and integration of renewables, EVs, and heat pumps into grid management. His work advances power system ICT, software-defined networking, edge computing, and blockchain for resilient, efficient grids amid rising demand and aging infrastructure. He contributes to national/international networks, lectures at TU Wien, and supports sector coupling, energy supply systems, and AI-driven energy transformation.

Cedric Westphal

Prof. Cederic Westphal

Cedric Westphal

Cedric Westphal is an associate adjunct professor in Computer Science
and Engineering since September 2024. Prior to this, he was a
Principal Research Architect with Futurewei working on future network
architectures, both for wired and wireless networks from 2011 until
2024. His current focus is on next generation Internet, green
networking, and networking for High Performance Computing.

He was an adjunct assistant, then associate professor in Computer
Engineering in his first term with the University of California, Santa
Cruz from 2009 to 2019. He has worked at DOCOMO Innovations from 2007
to 2011 in the Networking Architecture Group focusing on next
generation network architectures. He was at Nokia Research Center (now
Nokia Bell Labs) from 2000 to 2006. He has received a MSEE in 1995
from Ecole Centrale Paris, and a MS (1995) and PhD (2000) in EE from
the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1997 to 2000, he was a
visiting researcher at Stanford University.

Cedric Westphal has authored and coauthored over a hundred journal and
conference papers, including several best paper awards at conferences
such as IEEE ICC’11, IEEE ICNC’18, IEEE MuSIC’16 and others. He has
been awarded over thirty patents. He has received the IEEE
Communication Society IINTC 2018 Technical Achievement Award to
“recognize a lifelong set of outstanding technical contributions in
the area of information infrastructure and networking.” He also has
received the 2023 "Best Conference Paper Award" from the IEEE MMTC,
for the best paper published within the three prior years in a
conference on the topic of multi-media.

He was an area editor for the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, an
assistant editor for (Elsevier) Computer Networks journal, and a guest
editor for Ad Hoc Networks journal and ACM/IEEE JSAC. He is an
assistant editor for IEEE Transactions on Multi-Media. He has served
as a reviewer for the NSF, GENI, the EU FP7, INRIA, and other funding
agencies; he has chaired the technical program committee of several
conferences, including IEEE ICC (NGN symposium), IEEE NFV-SDN or IEEE
IPCCC, and he was the general chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2016.

Klara Nahrstedt

Klara Nahrstedt

Klara Nahrstedt

Klara Nahrstedt is the Grainger Distinguished Chair of Engineering Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Her research interests are directed toward trustworthy multimedia distributed systems and networking, quality of service (QoS) and resource management in Internet and mobile systems, real-time security in wireless networks for trustworthy power grids, edge-cloud systems, cyber-physical system security for electric vehicles, health systems, 3D tele-immersive systems, and advanced edge-cloud-based cyber-infrastructures for scientific instruments. She is the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements, the 2008 University Scholar Award, the 2009 Humboldt Research Award, the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, and the 2014 ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Technical Achievement Award, 2018 Robert Piloty Prize, and 2019, 2019 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Award in the College of Engineering, and 2020 Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering. She has been the editor-in-chief of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems journal; associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications; associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security; associate editor of IEEE Multimedia Magazine; general co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2006; IEEE PerCom 2009, ACM/IEEE IOTDI 2019, and IEEE Smartgridcomm 2020. She was the elected chair of the ACM SIGMM between 2007 and 2013. Nahrstedt received her Diploma in mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in 1985. In 1995, she received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, member of the Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences, and member of National Academy of Engineering.

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