Elektro- och informationsteknik

Lunds Tekniska Högskola | Lunds universitet

CV

Ulf Körner, Professor

Contact information: Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.  Telephone: +46 46 2229007; email: Ulf.Korner@eit.lth.se 

1. Degrees

  • Docent (habilitatia), June 1985
  • Doctor of Engineering, March 1982
  • Master of Science, February 1973 

2. Positions

  • Full Professor, from July 1990
  • Associate Professor, from June 1985 
  • 1990Assistant Professor, from June 1982

      Dept. of Communication Systems, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 

  • Visiting Professor, full time, June until August, 1992
  • Visiting researcher, full time, May until September, 1986

      Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. 

  • Visiting Professor, full time, May until September, 1987

      Dept. of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. 

3. Research (short version!)

Research interests

Communication network architectures and protocols, performance modelling and evaluation with focus on wireless systems, especially on Ad Hoc networking, on WLAN technologies and on “Beyond 3G technologies”. 

Chairmanships

  • Chair for the Sino-Swedish workshop on IMT-Advanced and Beyond, (2009) 
  • Co-Chair for China-Sweden Telecommunication Technology Workshop, (2006)
  • Chair for the Sweden-Japan Workshop on Future Wireless Technologies, (2004)
  • Program Chair for Workshop on Traffic Engineering, Protection and Restoration for NGI, (2004)         
  • Program Chair for the Nordic Teletraffic Seminar, (2001)
  • Co-program Chair for  Networking 2000, (2000)
  • Program Chair for the IFIP TC6/WG6.3 PICS International Conference, (1998)
  • Chair for the ITC-SS on Control in Communication Systems, (1996) 
  • Chair for the Nordic Teletraffic Seminar, (1987)

Member of editorial board

  • “Networking and Information Systems Journal”
  • “Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies”
  • “Telekom Idag”
 Member of Technical Program Committees (since 2005)
  • "Networking 2009", in Aachen 2009
  • "International Teletraffic Congress, ITC-21" in Paris 2009
  • “Wireless Days Conference”, in Dubai 2008
  • “International Teletraffic Congress”, in Ottawa 2007
  • “International Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering for Heterogeneity”, in Trondheim 2007
  • “The Second EuroNGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering” in Valencia 2006
  • “HET-NETS ’05: Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks”, in Ilkley 2005
  • "3rd EURO-NGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks", in Rome 2005
  • “The first EuroNGI Conference on Traffic Engineering for the Next Generation Internet”, in Rome 2005
  • “International Teletraffic Congress”, in Beijing 2005
 Research Memberships
  • Member of Euro-NGI (Next Generation Internet). A European Network of Excellence (NoE), 2004-2006
  • Member of Euro-FGI (Future Generation Internet). A European Network of Excellence (NoE), 2006-2008
  • Member of working group BG4 within KFI at the Swedish Research Council., 2005-2008
  • Member of the International Advisory Council (IAC) for the International Teletraffic Congresses (ITC), http://www.i-teletraffic.org
  • Member of IEEE and ACM Data Commmunication (SIGCOMM)
  • Elected member of the IFIP/TC6 working group 6.3
  • Elected member of the COST TC-TIST board. (1999-2006)
  • Elected expert in the COST domain, “Information and Communication Technologies”. (2006--)

 Referee for Major International Journals (selected)

IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Communications, ETRI Journal, Teletronikk 

Member of Ph.D. Committees (since 2006)

Tinku Mohamed, Jörgen Svensson, Lund University; Eeva Nyberg-Oksanen, Helsinki University of Technology andSu-En Tan, Technical University of Denmark 

Main “opponent” for the following doctoral theses (since 2002)

  • “Architectures and protocols for supporting quality of service routing in large scale mobile multi-hop wireless networks”, Tinku Mohamed Rasheed, Paris XI, Febr 2008
  • ”A New Forwarding Paradigm for Mobile and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”, by Miguel Carcia de la Fuente, 2007-2008
  • “Performance Evaluation of Multicast Networks and Service Differentiation Mechanisms in IP Networks”, Eeva Nyberg-Oksanen, Helsinki University of Technology,Jan 2006; 
  • “Heterogeneous Networks and Service”, Su-En Tan, Technical University of Denmark, May 2006;
  • “On the Quality of Networks Measurements”, Patrik Alros, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Oct 2005;
  • “Quality of Service, Traffic Conditioning and Resource Management in Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS)”, Frank Yong Li, Norwegian  University of Science and Technology, 2003;
  • “Optical Network Solution planning-performance-management”, Christian Fenger, Technical University of Denmark, June 2002
 Specialist at Appointments (since 2001)
  • Professor in Telecommunications at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona (2007)
  • Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Uppsala University, Uppsala (2004)
  • Professor in Computer Engineering at Uppsala University, Uppsala (2002)
  • Professor in Quality of Service at the Norwegian University of Science an Technology, Trondheim (2002)
  • Professor in Network Management at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (2001)
  • Professor in Teleinformatics at Linköping University, Linköping (2001)

 Research Funding Reviews

  • The Norwegian Research Council,
  • Swedish Research Council,
  • BG4 within KFI,
  • COST TC-TIST 

4. Academic leadership

  • Head of the department of Communication Systems at Lund University (4 professors, 6 lecturers, 14 Ph.D students). (until febr 2007)
  • Academic leader for the Networking Research Group at Lund University comprising six faculty members and about nine Ph.D. students. (until febr 2007)
  • Dean of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Lund University (1995-1998)
  • Member of the Educational Board for MSc programs in EE and CS at Lund University (1985-1992)
  • Member of the Board for Lund Institute of Technology at Lund University (1998-2001)
  • In the Board for Lund University Data Central (1993-1995)
  • Educational Programme Leader for the MSc program in Computer Engineering at Lund University (1996-1999)
  • In the Board for Öresund IT Academy (2000-2005)
  • In the Board for Lunarc, the centre for scientific and technical computing for research in the southern region of Sweden. (2006--)
 5. Supervision
  • Past main/co advisor for 14 Ph.D students.
  • Past main advisor for more than 60 MSc students.
  • Current main advisor for four Ph.D students.
  • Current co-advisor for two Ph.D students.

6. Entrepreneurial achievements

In the board of directors for:
  • Cybercom Group Europe AB, (2005-)
  • Cale Access AB, (2005-)
 Earlier board memberships:
  • The Swedish Post&Telecommunication Agency (1992-2006).
  • Consafe IT AB (member of  the JCE group), (2004-2007)
  • Doro AB (1993-2006),
  • Upgrade Communications AB (1999-2006),
  • Labs2 AB (2004-2005)
  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) (1994-1996?)
  • The Swedish “Telestyrelsen” (1990-1992)

  Others:

  • Member of “Frekvensutredningen” (Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications) 2007-2008
  • Expert with SWEDSERV within the project “QoS regulation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” 2007-2008