Matthias Grossglauser Research Leader Member, CEO Technology Council Nokia Research Center Assistant Professor  Laboratory for Computer Communications and Applications (LCA) School of Computer and Communication Sciences (I&C) EPFL

Contact Information

Snail mail:	Prof. Matthias Grossglauser EPFL - I&C - LCA4 Bâtiment BC (BC-209) Station 14 CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
Office:	BC 209
Phone:	+41 21 693 8116
Assistant:	+41 21 693 2623
Fax:	+41 21 693 6610
Email:	first.last@epfl.ch (please take a quick look at this before you send me email)
Wave:	matthias.grossglauser@googlewave.com

Short Bio

• I am a Research Leader at the Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki, Finland, and a member of Nokia's CEO Technology Council. I am also affiliated with the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (I&C) at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, as an Assistant Professor. From 2007-2008, I was the director of the Internet Laboratory at NRC. From 1998 to 2002, I was a member of the Networking and Distributed Systems Laboratory at AT&T Labs - Research. My research interests are in mobile and wireless networking, social and complex networks, and network traffic measurement and modeling.

  I have received the Diplôme d'Ingénieur en Systèmes de Communication from EPFL in 1994, the M.Sc. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1994, and the Ph.D. from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) in 1998. I did most of my thesis work at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France.

  I have received the 1998 Cor Baayen Award from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), the IEEE INFOCOM 2001 Best Paper Award, and the 2006 CoNEXT Rising Star Award.

Research Projects

• Routing in Partitioned Mobile Networks
• Routing in Mobile Networks through Encounter History
• Capacity of Mobile Networks
• Analysis and Applications of Social Networks
• Trajectory Sampling: Direct Network Traffic Measurement

• Prior research projects

Group Members

• Pedram Pedarsani (Ph.D. student)
• Michal Piorkowski (Ph.D. student)
• Natasa Sarafijanovic-Djukic (Ph.D. student)
• Dominique Tschopp (Ph.D. student, co-advised with Prof. Suhas Diggavi)

• Daniel R. Figueiredo (postdoctoral fellow; now at UFRJ)
• Henri Dubois-Ferrière (Ph.D. student, co-advised with Prof. Martin Vetterli; now with Riverbed)

Publications

• My publications are available here.

Teaching

• Models and Methods for Random Networks (winter semester 2004/05; 2005/06; 2006/07)
• SC250: Computer Networking 1 (summer semester 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007)

Professional Activities

• TPC co-chair, ITC Specialist Seminar 19
• Technical Program Committees: NSDI 2008; CONEXT 2008, 2007; PERFORMANCE 2007; MOBIQUITOUS 2007, 2004; ACM SIGMETRICS 2006, 2005; ACM MOBIHOC 2006; ACM MOBICOM 2003; ACM SIGCOMM 2002; IEEE INFOCOM 2002, 2001, 2000; IWQoS 2000
• Member of the editorial board, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2001-2003)
• Affiliations: IEEE, Center for Mobile Information and Communication Systems (MICS)
• Member of the board, ITEA 2 on software-intensive systems and services
• Steering board member, Future Internet Programme, Strategic Center of Excellence in Science, Technology and Innovation in ICT (ICT SHOK)

Miscellaneous

• A few opinions from panel discussions, etc.:
  • MANETs: Models vs. Applications (panel discussion at REALMAN 2005 workshop)
  • On academic performance metrics (at 10-year anniversary of the Communication Systems program at EPFL; in French)
  • "Reviewing reviewing": a manifesto on how to make paper reviewing more efficient and more enjoyable (based on a presentation in the "outrageous opinions sessions" at ACM SIGCOMM 2000)
• Tutorial on "Traffic Measurement for IP Operations" (with Jennifer Rexford) at ACM SIGCOMM 2001 and IEEE INFOCOM 2002
  
  • slides: part 1 :: part 2 :: part 3 :: part 4  

Open positions

• Currently none.

Email - A Plea for Mercy...

• Like most people, I am struggling to keep up with my email. Here are a few rules that help me handle common requests more efficiently:

  EPFL student seeking project	The list of student projects at all levels (semester, diploma, and pre-doctoral school) can be found here. If you write to inquire about a project, please include your resume with your grades.
  External student seeking project (summer internship, etc.)	Please note that I have left EPFL, and am therefore unable to accept students.
  Graduate student seeking Ph.D. position	Thank you for your interest in my research and in our Ph. D. program. Please note that I have left EPFL and am now with the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland. Although I continue to collaborate with my current Ph.D. students at EPFL, I do not plan to accept new Ph.D. students at this time. Please consult the following pages for more information on the doctoral program in Computer, Communication, and Information Sciences.
  Review request	Like most of us, I receive requests to review papers at a much higher rate than I can possibly handle. As a selection criterion, I tend to accept reviews (a) from journals and conferences where I publish papers myself, or (b) that are very closely related to my own work.