Meritförteckning
Maria Kihl, Professor
Maria Kihl is Professor in Internetworked systems at the Department of Electrical and Information Technology (EIT) at Lund University (LU), Sweden. She is Head of the Secure and Networked Systems Division at EIT. Also, she is the research leader of the Networked Systems Lab at this division. Her main research interests are in the fields of performance modeling, resource management and optimization of mission-critical networked systems. Her current projects mainly concern mission-critical applications deployed on 5G infrastructures, for example industrial control systems and autonomous vehicles. She is a member of the Excellence center at Linköping-Lund in Information Technology (ELLIIT) and the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP).
Address
Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University, BOX 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden. Phone +46 46 2229010, email: maria.kihl@eit.lth.se, web: https://www.eit.lth.se/staff/maria.kihl
PhD
March 1999: PhD in Engineering at the Department of Communication Systems, Lund University. Title of thesis: “Overload Control Strategies for Distributed Communication Networks”. Supervisors: Prof. Ulf Körner and Assoc. Prof. Christian Nyberg.
“Docent”
June 2004: Associate Professor (Docent) in Communication Systems.
Current employment
Professor in Internetworked Systems at the Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University.
Previous employments
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2004-2014: Associate Professor, Lund University
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2003-2004: Part time (25%) project manager for “Women in Engineering”, Lund University
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2002-2003: External Consultant at Malaysia Multimedia University
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1999-2003: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Communication Systems, Lund University.
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1994-1999: Ph.D. student and teaching assistant, Department of Communication Systems.
International experience
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May 2005 – July 2006: Visiting Scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA.
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November 1995 – June 1996: Researcher at Software Engineering Research Center, Melbourne, Australia.
PhD supervision
- Suleyman Sadikhov (assistant supervisor), Thesis subject: "Information handling in Industrial IoT", started in 2022.
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Fatemeh Akbarian (main supervisor), Thesis subject: "Networked systems for Industry 4.0", Licentiate degree in April 2022.
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Zahra Chamideh (main supervisor), Thesis subject: "Networked systems for autonomous vehicles", Licentiate degree in November 2021.
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Haorui Peng (main supervisor), Thesis subject: "Self-driving networks", Licentiate degree in January 2021.
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Per Skarin (assistant supervisor), Theis title: "Control over the Cloud: Offloading, Elastic Computing, and Predictive Control", PhD in December 2021.
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Tommi Nylander (assistant supervisor), Thesis subject: "Autonomous clouds", started 2016, PhD in June 2022.
- William Tärneberg (main supervisor), Thesis title: "The Confluence of Cloud computing, 5G, and IoT in the Fog", PhD in 2019.
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Manfred Dellkrantz (assistant supervisor), Thesis title: "Modeling and Control of Server based Systems", Licentiate degree in 2016.
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Jens A. Andersson (main supervisor), Thesis title: “From Noise to Zapping - Quality of Service Issues Affecting Internet TV Distribution”, Licentiate degree in 2016.
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Payam Amani (main supervisor), Thesis title: “Resource Management in Computing Systems”, Licentiate degree in 2017.
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Inigo Sedano (assistant supervisor), Thesis subject “Video over IP quality estimation”, guest PhD student from Tecnalia, Spain, 2010-2011. PhD in 2020.
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Martin A. Kjaer (assistant supervisor), Thesis title: “Disturbance rejection and control in web servers”, PhD in 2009
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Mikael Andersson (main supervisor), Thesis title: “Overload control and performance of web servers”, PhD in 2007.
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Jens K. Andersson (assistant supervisor), Thesis title: “Overload control and performance evaluation in a Parlay/OSA environment”, PhD in 2007.
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Niklas Widell (assistant supervisor), Thesis title: Active resource management in middleware and service-oriented architectures”, PhD in 2005.
PostDoc mentoring
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Emma Cuthbert, 2021-2022.
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William Tärneberg, 2019-2021, currently Assistant Professor at EIT, LU.
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Zheng Li, 2015-2017, currently Assistant Professor at University of Concepción, Chile.
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Kaan Bür, 2009-2011, currently Project leader at LU
Research project grants
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PI in the ELLIIT (Excellence Center at Linköping-Lund in Information Technology) Infrastructure grant, “Connectivity and Compute Lab for Edge Computing”, 2021-2026.
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Grant holder and LU project leader (coordinated by Spain) in EUREKA/CelticPlus project IMMINENCE (Intelligent Management of Next Generation Mobile Networks and Services), 2021-2023.
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co-PI in the project “6G Wireless sub-project: Vehicular Communication”, funded by ELLIIT, 2021-2024.
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PI in the ELLIIT PostDoc project “Control-as-a-Service: Resilient feedback control systems for Industry 4.0 based on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf cloud infrastructures”, 2021-2022.
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co-PI in NordForsk project HIIoT (Nordic hub for industrial IoT), 2018-2022.
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Co-PI in SSF project SEC4FACTORY (Security for next-generation factories), 2018-2022.
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PI and Grant holder for an Academic PhD student in WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program), 2017-2023.
- Grant holder and LU project leader in Eureka/CELTIC Next project 5G PERFECTA (5G and next generation mobile performance compliance testing assurance), 2018-2021.
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Grant holder and LU project leader in EIT-ICT labs project NFMD (Networks for Future Media Services), 2014-2015.
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Grant holder and LU project leader in EUREKA/CELTIC project NOTTS (Next Generation Over-the-Top Services), 2013-2015.
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LU project leader for the Vinnova project EFRAIM (Eco-system for Future Media Distribution), 2012-2014.
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Co-PI in "Cloud Control" project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2013-2016.
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Grant holder and LU project leader in EUREKA/CELTIC project IPNQSIS (IP Network Monitoring for Quality of Service Intelligent Support), 2011-2012.
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Co-PI in “Cross-layer design of automotive traffic safety applications” funded by ELLIIT, 2010-2015.
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Senior researcher in the Linneaus center “Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems (LCCC)”, 2008-2017.
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Acting project leader for the Vinnova project UCRM (User and Content Dependent Resource Management in a Multi Provider Environment), 2010-2012. During this project we participate in the EUREKA/CELTIC project R2D2 (Road to media-aware user-dependent self-adaptive networks).
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Grant holder of VINNMER/Vinnova project title “E-service stability and design of IP access networks”, 2007-2011.
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Acting LU project leader in the EUREKA/CELTIC project TRAMMS (Traffic Measurements and Models in Multi-Service networks), 2007-2010. TRAMMS was the winner of the CELTIC Gold award in 2010.
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Co-applicant in the Swedish Research Council project “Resource Allocation and Control of Distributed Service Management Systems”, 2010-2012.
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Co-applicant in the Swedish Research Council project “Modeling and control of server systems”, 2007-2009.
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Grant holder and project leader in the Vinnova project “Performance modeling and analysis of 3G applications”, 2003-2006.
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Management Committee member of the COST 290 action “Traffic and QoS management in wireless multimedia networks”, 2004-2008.
Academic appointments
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Head of the Secure and Networked Systems Division at EIT, LU.
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Vice chair of the Career Board (Karriärnämnden) at the Faculty of Engineering at LU.
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Experienced Expert evaluator for research and innovation grant proposals at the Swedish Innovation Agency (VINNOVA), the Swedish Energy Agency (Energymyndigheten), The Knowledge Foundation (KK Stiftelsen), and the Swedish Research Council (VR).
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Assistant Program Manager for the Engineering programs in Computer Engineering and Information and Communication Engineering, 2015-2021.
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Member of the technical program committee for several international conferences and reviewer in several international journals.
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Member of the board of Signals and Systems, Swedish Research Council, 2005-2007 and 2009.
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Member of the board of the Swedish Championship in Engineering (Teknik-SM) 2007.
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Finalist in Venture Cup Syd 2004 (10 out of 200), with “Overload Control Inc.”, a proposal focusing on the design and control of commercial web servers for small companies.
Research education appointments
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PhD opponent for
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Maté Csorba (Norwegian University of Science and Tecnhology)Thesis title: "Service design with performance and cost efficient deployment”, 2011.
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Member of the PhD Grading Committee for
- Line Pyndt (DTU, Denmark), Thesis title: "Future Mobile Networks Optimization using Cloud-RAN Architecture", 2022.
- David Daharewa Gureya (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden), Thesis title: "Resource Allocation for Data-Intensive Services in the Cloud", 2021.
- Lorenzo Corneo (Uppsala University, Sweden), Thesis title: "Latency sensitive applications from the clouds to the edge", 2021.
- Salman Muhammad Khan Niazi (KTH, Sweden), Thesis title: "Scaling Distributed Hierarchical File Systems Using NewSQL Databases", 2019.
- Hooman Peiro Sajjad (KTH, Sweden), Thesis title: “Methods and Algorithms for Data-Intensive Computing: Streams, Graphs, and Geo-Distribution”, 2019.
- Salman Muhammad Khan Niazi (KTH, Sweden), Thesis title: “Scaling distributed hierarchical file systems using NewSQL databases”, 2018.
- Håkan Terelius (KTH, Sweden), Thesis title: “Optimization and Control in Dynamical Network Systems”, 2016.
- Ruma R. Paul (KTH, Sweden), Thesis title: “Building Distrubuted Systems for High-Stress Environments using Reversability and Phase-Awareness”, 2016.
- Ying Liu (KTH, Sweden), Thesis title: “Towards Elastic High-Performance Geo-Distributed Storage in the Cloud”, 2016.
- Johan Eklund (Karlstad University, Sweden), Thesis title: “Latency Reduction for Soft Real-Time Traffic using SCTP Multihoming”, 2016.
- Misbah Uddin (KTH, Sweden), A Bottom-Up Approach to Real-Time Search in Large Networks and Clouds, 2016.
- Felipe Mata (Universidad Autonòma de Madrid, Spain), Thesis title: ”Quality of service analysis of Internet links with minimal information”, 2012.
- Henrik Abrahamsson (Mälardalen University, Sweden), Thesis title: “Network overload avoidance by traffic engineering and content caching”, 2012.
- Edison Pignaton De Freitas (Halmstad University, Sweden), Thesis title: "Cooperative Context Aware Setup and Performance of Surveillance Missions Using Static and Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks", 2011.
- Wolfgang John (Chalmers University, Sweden), Thesis title: “Characterization and classification of Internet backbone traffic”, 2010.
- Saowaphak Sasanus (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Thesis title: “Adaptive Multi-class Signaling Overload Control for Cellular Networks”, 2008.
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Andreas Johnsson (Mälardalen University, Sweden), Thesis title: “Modeling, implementation and evaluation of IP bandwidth measurements methods”, 2007.
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Licentiate opponent for
- Roman-Valentyn Tkachuk (Blekinge Institute of Technology), Thesis title: "Towards Decentralized Orchestration of Next-generation Cloud Infrastructures", 2021.
- Vengatanathan Krishnamoorthi (Linköping University), Thesis title: “Efficient and Adaptive Content Delivery of Linear and Interactive Branched Videos”, 2016.
- Pehr Söderman (Royal Institute of Technology), Thesis title: “Tools and strategies for Experimental Development and Evaluation of Protocols”, 2013
- Junaid Shaikh (Blekinge University), Thesis title: “Non-intrusive network-based estimation of web quality of experience indicators”, 2012.
- Johan Eklund (Karlstad University), Thesis title; ”On switchover performance in multihomed SCTP”, 2010.
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Katrin Sjöberg (Halmstad University), Thesis title: ”Predictable and scalable medium access control in vehicular ad-hoc networks”, 2009.
Pedagogical achievements
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Course responsible and main teacher for the following courses:
- Network Architecture and Performance (Master level), 2021--
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Computer Communications (Bachelor level), 2006, 2012-2020.
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Project in Electrical and Information Technology (Master level), 2011-2020.
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Data Communications (Bachelor level), 2007.
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Communication Systems (Bachelor level), 2001-2004.
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Queuing theory (Bachelor level), 2002, 2004.
- Examiner or Supervisor for more than 50 Master theses at EIT.
- One of 8 Examiners of Master theses at EIT.
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Pedagogical courses equivalent to 10 weeks at Lund University.
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4 papers at Swedish pedagogical conferences.
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Author of the book “Datakommunikation och Nätverk”, published at Studentlitteratur.
Leadership education
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AKKA: a one-year leadership program for women (equivalent to one month full time), aiming at future female research leaders at Lund University, 2007.
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Lund University leadership course, 2 days, 2008.
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Morgondagens forskningsledare (Research leaders of tomorrow), a two-year leadership program (equivalent to one month full time) at Lund University, 2011-2012.