Technology and Innovation

Martine Sophie Lenders

Based in Berlin

I am a PhD student in Computer Science and a research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, advised by Professor Matthias Wählisch. My primary research interest is in networking and programming for the IoT. I'm one of the maintainers in RIOT and responsible for the design and implementation of the RIOT default network stack.

Benoit Donnet

Based in Université de Liège

Prof. Dr. Benoit Donnet is Associate Professor in the EECS department of the University of Liège. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 2006. He has published about 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research interests are in Internet measurements, traffic engineering techniques, new Internet architectures, and Internet security.

Torsten Zimmermann

Based in Aachen, Germany

I am a PhD student at the chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University. As part of the Network Achitectures group, my research focuses on the assessment, adoption and optimization of Internet protocols, such as HTTP/2 or DNS.

Vasileios Giotsas

Vasileios Giotsas is a researcher at Lancaster University. His work focuses on systems security and resilience, distributed systems, and measurement and analysis of Internet protocols.

Vasileios Kotronis

Based in Heraklion, Greece

Vasileios Kotronis is a Postdoctoral researcher at FORTH-ICS (at Heraklion, Crete, Greece), and is a member of the INSPIRE group since November 2016, where he works on the EU ERC-funded NetVolution project on improving inter-domain routing. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich, from the former Communication Systems Group. His main research interests include: Internet Routing, Software Defined Networking, Internet Measurements and Network Security and Engineering.

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.

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.

Massimo Candela

Based in Amsterdam

Massimo Candela is a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on developing web applications that provide a visual and interactive representation of large amounts of network data. From 2013 to 2019 he has been part of the R&D department of RIPE NCC. Some of the tools he’s played a key role in developing are the go-to resources for network operators to monitor certain aspects of Internet performance, including RIPE IPmap, RIPE Atlas, RIPEstat, BGPlay, TraceMON and DNSMON.

Diego Pino Garcia

Based in Vigo, Spain

Free and open-source developer at Igalia. Currently working in user-space networking with Snabb and VPP.

Antoine Saverimoutou

Based in Orange Labs Lannion France

I am currently preparing a PhD at Orange Labs. The thesis title is “Métrologie de l’internet du futur: Nouvelles métriques et méthodes de mesures de la qualité de navigation Web”, investigating Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE), monitoring as well as troubleshooting new protocols. To put forward user-centricity, my goal is to improve content providers’ delivery and promote network operators’ business plans, analyze different networking techniques or protocols which are being re-thought (e.g HTTP/2, QUIC/UDP, DNS/QUIC, etc.), and hence contribute to the future internet. In order to quantify the advantages and drawbacks which can be leveraged, I am deeply investigating the monolithic term performance.