Klara

 

Mailing Address:
3104 Siebel Center,
201 North Goodwin Avenue,
Urbana, IL 61801
Contact Numbers: (217) 244-6624 – work phone, (217) 244-6869- fax
Email Address: klara AT illinois DOT edu
Group Webpage: http://monet.cs.illinois.edu
Long Curriculum Vitea: CV.Nahrstedt.2020

BIOGRAPHY

Klara Nahrstedt is the Swanlund Endowed Chair and Full Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, and the Director of Research at the Discovery Partnerships Institute (DPI) in Chicago. She is the co-author of the textbooks “Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications“, published by Prentice Hall 1995, “Multimedia Systems“, published by Spring Verlag in 2004, and the author of the online book “QoS in Wireless Networks over Unlicensed Spectrum“, published by Morgan & Claypool in 2012.She is the recipient of the Early NSF Career Award in 1996, the Junior Xerox Award in 1998, the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements in 2000, the University Scholar Award in 2008, the Humboldt Research Award in 2009, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 2012, ACM SIG Multimedia Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2014, 2018 Robert Piloty Prize for Outstanding Research from Technical University Darmstadt Germany, and 2019 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Award from Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was the editor-in-chief of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (2000-2007), associate editor of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (2005-2011), associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2012-2017), associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, general co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2006, general chair of ACM NOSSDAV 2007, general chair of IEEE PerCom 2009, general co-chair of IEEE/ACM IoTDI 2019, general co-chair of IEEE SmartGridComm 2020. She was elected to serve as the chair of the ACM SIG Multimedia (2007-2013), selected as a member of the Computing Research Associations (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) (2014-2017), selected to serve on the NSF CISE Advisory Board (2019-2025) as a member and as a co-chair (2023-2025), a member of  the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, University Council (2020-present), a member of the Humboldt Foundation Award Selection Committee (2020-2025) and a member of numerous advisory and review boards and panels in national and international organizations. 

Klara Nahrstedt received her Diploma in mathematics with specialization in numerical analysis from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in 1985. She was a research scientist in the Institute for Informatik in Berlin until 1989. In 1995 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science. She is the ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Member of Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina Society) and Member of the National Academy of Engineering. 

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Communication Networks: Quality of Service (QoS) Support, QoS Routing, Real-Time Protocols, Network Management, Guaranteed Services, QoS in wireless networks.
  • Mobile Computing and Communication: Mobility Patterns, Analysis of Mobile Behaviors, peer-to-peer mobile protocols for video traffic, group communication paradigms, mobile patterns in crowds, incentive mechanisms for crowdsourcing.
  • Resource Management: QoS-aware Resource Management, Soft-real-time Scheduling, QoS Languages and Translations, QoS-aware Middleware, Energy-Efficient Scheduling, Stream-based Operating Systems, QoS Compiler.
  • Applications: Multimedia Distributed Systems and Applications, 3D Tele-immersion, Mobile Group-based Multimedia Applications
  • Tele-immersive Systems: Bandwidth management, Multi-View Management, Session Management for multi-stream teleimmersive applications, Quality of Experience, Synchronization, Open Flow, Software-Defined Networks for Telepresence, Tele0immersive Applications.
  • Security: Multimedia and Internet Security, Quality of Protection, Wireless security in First Responder Systems, Security in Power Grid SCADA networks, Privacy in Mobile Phones.
  • Cyber-Physical Systems: Electrical Vehicles (EVs) and Electro-mobility, Key Management Protocols for EVs, Key Management Protocols for Power-Grid Applications, QoS-Aware Resource Allocation in Power-Grid.
  • Cloud-based Cyber-Infrastructures for Scientific Instruments: Cyber-Infrastructures for Scientific Data (Material Genomics and Device Fabrication) Acquisition, Storage and Analysis (4CeeD private cloud system); edge-cloud-based systems for aging scientific instruments (BRACELET network); smart clean rooms with multi-sensory data collection, analysis and visualization (SENSELET).
  • Edge-Computing: edge-cloud task placement algorithms; edge computing for aging IoT; edge-based distributed machine learning over video streams.
  • UAVs: privacy algorithms, security key management, tracking and video systems for UAV swarms.
  • Video Systems: Video 360 navigation graphs, real-time video 360 streaming, cyber-sickness, object and event detection in video 360 content (mi360world project), multi-view systems, NeRF and 3DGS streaming. 
  • AI Systems: exploration of AI algorithms such as reinforcement learning in resource management for IInternet-of-Things (IoT) systems and networks, energy-efficient data center systems for AI workloads, optimization and tradeoffs of Visual Language Models (VLMs) on edge-cloud infrastructures. 

TEACHING

  • Fall 2012, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
    • CS598KN: Advanced Multimedia Systems
  • Spring 2013
    • CS423: Operating Systems Design
  • Spring 2014
    • CS414: Multimedia Systems Design
  • Fall 2014, Spring 2016
    • CS538: Advanced Network Systems
  • Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2023
    • CS537: Advanced Topics in IoT
  • Earlier
    • CS414: Multimedia Systems Design [Spring 2010] [Spring 2009] [Spring 2008], [Spring 2011], [Spring 2012]
    • CS425: Distributed Systems [Fall 2009] [Fall 2008]
    • CS423: Operating Systems Design [Fall 2007] [Spring 2007] [Fall 2005] [Fall 2011]
    • CS241: System Programming [Spring 2007] [Spring 2006]
    • CS591FSN: Foundations of Systems and Networking [Spring 2010]
    • CS591SN: Systems and Networking Seminar [Spring 2010] [Fall 2009] [Spring 2009] [Fall 2008] [Spring 2008] [Fall 2007] [Spring 2011]
    • CS591KN: Seminar on Tele-immersive Systems [Spring 2008] [Fall 2007] [Spring 2007] [Fall 2006] [Fall 2005]