IE2025

Klara Nahrstedt is the Swanlund Chair Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, and the Director of Coordinated Science Laboratory in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in end-to-end Quality of Service and resource management in large scale distributed multimedia systems, and IoT cyber-physical systems. She is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, and others.
Klara Nahrstedt received her Diploma in Mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in 1985, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the
Department of Computer and Information Science in 1995. She is ACM, IEEE, AAAS Fellow, Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina Society),
and Member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Sumio Morioka leads long-term technological R&D for satellite and rocket systems at Interstellar Technologies Inc., a leading
NewSpace company in Japan (https://www.istellartech.com/en). After receiving his degree in Computer Science from Osaka University in 1997, he conducted research on high-performance LSI design and security technologies at NTT, IBM, Sony, NEC's central research
labs, and Imperial College London. Notably, he contributed to the development and integration of security technologies in the
PlayStation Portable and PS3, earning the Sony MVP Award in 2004. Since joining his current organization in 2016, he has led
efforts to successfully launch the first privately developed rocket into space in Japan, earning recognition from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Kutscher holds a PhD from The University of Bremen, Germany. He has held a full professor position for computer science and networking at the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany and researcher positions in both industry and academic research organizations. Previously he has been the CTO for Virtual Networking and IP at Huawei's German Research Center, the Chief Researcher for Networking at NEC Laboratories Europe, and a Visiting Researcher at KDDI R&D Laboratories in Japan. He is co-chairing two Research Groups in the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) on Information-Centric Networking (ICNRG) and on Decentralized Internet Infrastructure (DINRG). Dirk has published several IETF RFCs, books, and research publications on Internet technologies and holds several international patents. Dirk has held leading positions in multiple international research projects and has recently been serving as the technical director for the Piccolo project, a new European research initiative on in-network computing. He has won many awards for best papers in international conference and excellent research work by NEC and Huawei. Dirk has been one of the key innovators in Information-Centric Networking and has recently proposed Compute-First Networking as a new way for integrating distributed computing and networking.