Technology and Innovation

Wouter de Vries

Based in Hengelo

I am a PhD student in the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) group at the University of Twente. My current research area is the optimization of anycast catchments, specifically to improve resilience against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. More

Emile Aben

Based in Amsterdam, NL

I'm a data scientist at the RIPE NCC. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet measurement, data analysis, data visualisation, sustainability and security. … More

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 … More

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 … More

Robert Kisteleki

For many years I have been 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. As of 2023, I'm … More

John Heidemann

Researcher at USC/ISI. More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More