Technology and Innovation

Farzad Ebrahimi

Based in Tehran,Iran

Dr. Farzad Ebrahimi is CEO & Founder of BITA - IoT Holding Company and Chairman & Founder of IoT Academy of IRAN. He is a Faculty Member and Researcher in IRAN ICT Research Institute. He is also deputy of IoT & Big Data Commission in Tehran ICT Guild Organization and Chairman of Technology Working Group in IoT & Big Data Commission. He has 17 years of experience in the Field of ICT. His work in Research, Teaching and Business activities has been focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) from more than three years ago. He is International lecturer in the field of IoT and he has done various industrial projects in the field of Internet of Things.

Juan Brenes

Juan Brenes is early stage researcher in the areas of internet routing, software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). For the last three years he has been a member of the METRICS ITN, which allowed him start a Phd in telematics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid under the supervision of Marcelo Bagnulo which he continues up until now. Recently he also joined Atos where he is participating of the 5G-transformer project. Juan also has a Telematics Engineering (Bsc) degree by the Universidad de Montevideo and a Master in Telematics (Msc) degree by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and has also performed as a software programmer and network administrator for several years.

Robert Kisteleki

I am the leader of the Research and Development team at the RIPE NCC leading a dedicated team of thinkers to support the RIPE community by providing network research, data analysis and prototype tool development and services including RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat.

John Heidemann

Researcher at USC/ISI.

Karim Farhat

Based in Georgia Institute of Technology

Karim Farhat is a Research Assistant and PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy. His work as a Research Associate at the Internet Governance Project (IGP) focuses on the institutional and standards environment evolving around the Internet of Things. Karim’s other research interests include the economics of information security and Internet governance. Before joining Georgia Tech, Karim was active in the Internet Society chapter of his native Lebanon, particularly through his involvement with the Internet governance and start-up arenas. Karim also worked in DC for an indie film company and has a Masters in Media Studies from Ohio University.

Ivana Tomic

Based in London

Dr Ivana Tomic is currently working as a Research Associate in the AESE group at Imperial College London. She received her PhD in Control Theory from City, University of London in October 2016 where she worked on the implementation of distributed control algorithms in multi-agent networks. Her research interests include security of cyber-physical systems and IoT, distributed aperiodic control communications protocols and their impact on security, and optimal control. She is currently researching security vulnerabilities for aperiodic control protocols with wide-area communications as a part of S4 project (EPSRC Programme Grant) and Fog to FIELD project funded by CISCO/Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Prior to this she was a main researcher on PETRAS project IoT in the Park funded by EPSRC where she looked into security of wireless sensor networks and IoT architectures.

Uta Meier-Hahn

Uta Meier-Hahn is a doctoral researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. In her work she focusses on informal regulation of internet infrastructure with specific interest in internet interconnection arrangements. As academic editor for the institute's Internet Policy Review (http://policyreview.info), Uta contributes to establishing a hybrid form of publication at the crossroads of journalism and academia. Before joining the institute, Uta worked as an online journalist for the public broadcasting company Norddeutscher Rundfunk. She studied Cultural Studies at the University of Lüneburg and at the Marmara University in Istanbul.

Vesna Manojlovic

Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of IPv6 deployment among LIRs. In 2011, she joined the Science Division as Manager of the Measurements Community Building team; in 2015 she moved to Communications Department as Senior Community Builder, with a focus on organising hackathons. Vesna gives presentations at many technical conferences and workshops, and enjoys visiting hackerspaces. Vesna received a Batchelor of Sciences Degree in Computer Science and Informatics from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She has three children.

Anant Shah

Based in Fort Collins, CO, US

I am a PhD Candidate at Colorado State University. My areas of interest are Internet measurements, routing analysis, anomaly detection. I like to research on topics that can be directly applied to operations. When not writing code, I spend time playing amateur guitar.

George Michaelson

George Michaelson is currently APNIC's senior R&D scientist. Recently, he has been working on long-baseline IPv6 and DNS statistics using Internet-wide end-user measurement, services logging, audit and analysis, and design and implementation of the Internet Number Resource Certification framework. George is a member of the BCS, and a founder member of the Australian chapter of the Internet Society. He participates regularly in IETF standardisation meetings, and co-authors Request For Comment (RFC) documents, technical drafts, and conference and peer-review papers. George graduated from York University in 1982 with a BSc in Computer Science. His career in the United Kingdom and Australia has pursued research and development in computer science, networking, and systems administration.