Dina Papagiannaki

"Telco Innovation at Home"

(Vortrag im Rahmen der "MPI Distinguished Lecture Series" in Kooperation mit dem Fachbereich Informatik)

Connectivity services have been the focus of tremendous innovation in the recent past. The majority of such innovation, however, has primarily targeted mobile devices, despite the ever growing interest around home services. In this talk I am going to describe different types of innovation that I consider interesting for residential users and why they have or have not succeeded. The fundamental question is “What does it actually take to create interesting, novel user experiences for residential users?”. In the talk I am going to focus on constraints, but also opportunities that could create meaningful value added services for the place that we love to call our home.

Bio: Konstantina (Dina) Papagiannaki is the Scientific Director, responsible for the Internet, Systems and mobile research carried out by the scientific group at Telefonica Research and Development in Barcelona. Prior to that she was a senior researcher at Intel Labs; from 2004 until the end of 2006 in Cambridge, UK and from 2007 until 2011 in Pittsburgh, USA. From the beginning of 2000 until the end of 2003 she was a member of the IP Group at the Sprint Advanced Technology Labs. She got awarded her PhD from the Computer Science Department of University College London (UCL) in March 2003, receiving the Distinguished Dissertations Award 2003. She got her first degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in October 1998. She has chaired the technical program committee of the premier conferences in her field, authored more than 60 peer reviewed papers, authored a book on the design and management of large-scale IP networks through Cambridge University Press, has 1 pending and 5 awarded patents, and has received the best paper awards at ACM Mobicom 2009, ACM IMC 2013, and ACM CoNEXT 2013. She has held an adjunct faculty position in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University from 2007 until 2011, and in 2008 she received the rising star award of the computer networking community of ACM. She has participated as an expert in panels for the Federal Commission of Communications, the National Telecommunications and Information Agency, and the National Science Foundation of the U.S.A, as well as the Association of Computing Machinery.