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Committee Member Dirk Trossen
BT's Network Research Centre

Biography
Dirk Trossen, Chief Researcher in BT's Network Research Centre, has more than ten years of experience in network architectures, services and wireless technology. His main contributions are in the area of inter-domain networking, focusing on seamless handovers and physical network overlays. His research involves the design of network solutions for multi-access environments, building on novel concepts for virtual network operators. He has also been designing an architecture and platform solution for mobile-centric wireless sensing within his work on context-aware services. Dirk co-chaired for more than two years the Value Chain Dynamics working group in the Communications Futures Program at MIT together with Prof. Charlie Fine from MIT Sloan. Dirk is one of the main authors of the EIFFEL think tank whitepaper and one of the caretakers for the proposed EIFFEL Support Action in FP7. Dirk was Principal Scientist with Nokia Research from 2000 to 2007, before joining BT Research. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Aachen, Germany and diploma degree in Mathematics from the same university.

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