Professional Interests

• Leadership, and Strategy of Research-based Organisations and Institutions
• Business and Technology Strategy of Robotics, Cloud, Software, and Telecom
• Cloud Robotics, slides Cloud Robotics
• Cloud Computing Infrastructures and Platforms, founder and head of ICCLab and SPLab
• The notion of a Future Internet: slides: Global FI-Research
• Admission Control (Subject of PhD). For AC in real see here and here. For an introduction you might find this lecture useful

External Expert

• Proposal elevator for the European Commission (FP7 and H2020)
• Project reviewer for the European Commission (FP7 and H2020)
• Member of expert groups for the European Commission
• Proposal Evaluator for the Swiss National Science Foundation

Steering and Advisory Committees

• Board Member Swiss Federal Cloud Computing Strategy
• Board member of the Swiss Association of Computer Science
• Co-Chair of the EC Future Internet Cluster FI-Cluster
• Member of the Executive Board H2020 ELASTEST
• Coordinator of the FP7 Project KIARA part of FI-PPP FI-WARE (1st OpenCall)
• Technical Coordinator of the FP7 Project MobileCloud Networking MobileCloud Networking
• Architecture and Steering Board Member of the European Future Internet Public-Private-Partnership FI-PPP
• Steering Committee Member of the European Future Internet Public-Private-Partnership Technology Foundation FI-WARE
• Founder and Director / Steering Committee Member of the Future Internet Research Alliance (FIRA)
• Steering Committee Member of the European Technology Platform (ETP) eMobility (eMobility)
• Steering Committee Member of the EU FP7 IP GEYSERS project (GEYSERS)
• Advisory Board Member of the EU FP7 NOVI project (NOVI)
• Advisory Board Member of the Latin American Technology Platform (LATP)
• Chair of the ESF (European Science Foundation) COST290 Action WiMAX Study Group link

IEEE Broadband Wireless Access Workshop Series

• Founder, Steering Committee, General Chair of the IEEE Broadband Wireless Access Workshop series www.bwaws.org

Editorial Board

• Editorial Board, Computer Communications, The International Journal for the Computer and Telecommunications Industry
• Correspondent (Europe) for the IEEE Global Communications Newsletter of the IEEE Communications Magazine
• Editorial Board Member of the International Journal On Advances in Internet Technology
• Editorial Board Member of the International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services

Acadddemic Service

• General Chair Swiss Open Cloud Day (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• General Chair 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018)
• Tutorial Chair 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016)
• Workshop Chair IEEE CLEEN 2014 IEEE WCNC 2014
• Workshop Chair IEEE CLEEN 2013 IEEE VTC Fall 2013
• General Workshop Chair IEEE International Conference on Communications IEEE ICC 2013
• General Chair 2nd International Workshop on Data Center Performance DCPerf 2012
• Symposium Chair Int. ICST Conference on Communications Infrastructure, Systems and Applications in Europe EuropeComm 2011
• TPC-Chair Future Seamless Communication amd Packet Core EvolutionKiVS FUSECO Workshop 2010
• TPC-Chair Int. Conference on Wired / Wireless Internet Communications WWIC 2010
• General Co-Chair 4th GI/ITG KuVS Workshop on The Future Internet and 2nd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management (ETM) GI/ITG KuVS FI WS 2009
• General Workshop Chair IEEE Int. Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies NGMAST 2009
• Chair of the „Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks Symposium“ 5th IEEE ACM Int. Wireless Com. and Mobile Computing Conference IEEE ACM IWCMC 2009
• Industrial Support Chair for Workshop on Broadband Wireless for Communities and Rural Developing Regions M4D 2008
• General Workshop Chair for IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications IEEE ICT 2008
• General Workshop Chair for IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies NGMAST 2008
• Co-Founder of the Future Multimedia Networking Workshop series FMN-WS