Research interests

<p>My research focus&nbsp;lies within the area of Distributed Systems, Edge Computing, and Internet Technologies. In particular, I have been working at the intersection of distributed systems, software engineering, and IoT systems.&nbsp;Motivated by concrete problems I witnessed during my years as an entrepreneur (between 1998-2005), I decided to fully dedicate my time on the underlying conceptual and scientific issues in the areas above and became full professor in 2005. Since then, I <strong>successfully supervised 42 PhD students</strong> in my research group.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>I focus on&nbsp;<strong>resilient large-scale distributed software systems</strong>. The fundamental concerns I work on include: (1) compositional software services spanning the whole Compute Continuum including: IoT sensors, Edge devices, Fog server, and Cloud data centers; (2) data, as it flows within that infrastructure; (3) coordination, context, and control; and (4) security and privacy. My goal is to develop a set of coherent scientifically grounded methodologies and open-source software tools for addressing the engineering of large-scale distributed software-intensive (IoT) systems by focusing on these outlined areas. By providing the necessary scientific foundations, I develop engineering support—buttressed with novel and groundbreaking scientific approaches—to address challenges from a more advantageous ecosystems vantage view. Overall, I pursue a&nbsp;<em>paradigm shift</em>, where one conceptual worldview is replaced by another. This new worldview comprises a shift toward building&nbsp;<em>inherently</em>&nbsp;<em>resilient</em>, software-intensive IoT ecosystems rather than continuing to engineer the “patched” distributed IoT/Edge/Fog/Cloud&nbsp;systems of today.&nbsp;In particular, I focus on&nbsp;integrating&nbsp;edge computing and AI, which gives birth to edge intelligence (EI).&nbsp;&nbsp;In this area I focus on&nbsp;AI for edge (intelligence-enabled edge computing) and AI on edge (artificial intelligence on edge), where I co-authored the book <em>Edge Intelligence – From Theory to Practice</em>, Springer 2023.</p>

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