Dustdar, Schahram

Engineering Sciences

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Department Departament d'Enginyeria

Address Edifici Roc Boronat 138 - Campus Pobrenou

Postal code 08018

City Barcelona

Keywords

Distributed Systems
Internet of Things
Edge Computing
Cloud Computing
Smart Cities
Active Inference

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Short biography

Schahram Dustdar is a ICREA Professor au UPF. He has also been Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Research Division of Distributed Systems at the TU Wien, Austria. He holds several honorary positions: Francqui Chair Professor at University of Namur, Belgium (2021-2022), University of California (USC) Los Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie University in Sydney. From Dec 2016 until Jan 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Sevilla, Spain and from January until June 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, USA.

From 1999 - 2007 he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld AG), a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for several (international and national) awards.