Dr. Mahin K. Atiq has been a scientific staff member in my team at the University of Klagenfurt from 2014 until 2019, where she performed research and teaching on wireless networks and communication protocols. She received her doctoral degree in technical sciences for her dissertation “Interference dynamics in wireless networks” in 2021 and is now a researcher at Silicon Austria Labs. Mahin also holds a master degree in information and communication engineering from Sejong University in Seoul.

Dr. Pasquale Grippa joined my team with a master degree in electronics engineering from the University of Salerno. During his employment as a research and teaching staff member at the University of Klagenfurt, he developed multidisciplinary interests in the analysis of networked, stochastic, and self-organizing systems and worked on drone-based delivery and autonomous cable car systems. His doctoral degree in technical sciences was awarded by the University of Klagenfurt in 2021 for his dissertation “Job assignment, access control and dimensioning in autonomous transportation systems”. Pasquale is currently a senior researcher at Lakeside Labs GmbH in the field of autonomous multi-robot systems.

Dr. Samira Hayat graduated in telecommunications from the University of Trento before she joined the University of Klagenfurt. As research and teaching staff member, she focused on multi-drone systems, specifically on wireless networking and path planning. She also developed interest in the ethical and social implications of drones, and talked about this topic at popular conferences, like re:publica and TEDxCERN. In 2021, Samira received her doctoral degree in technical sciences from the University of Klagenfurt for her dissertation “Drone networks for search and rescue”. She was a guest researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in 2016. Samira is currently a project staff member at the University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs. She is also the founder of Bellatrace.

Dr. Udo Schilcher studied applied informatics and mathematics before he joined my team as a research and teaching staff member in 2005. He received the doctoral degree in technical sciences from the University of Klagenfurt in 2011 with his dissertation “Inhomogeneous node distributions and interference in wireless networks“. Udo then held senior positions at the Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems and at Lakeside Labs GmbH. His main interests are in wireless networks, stochastic geometry, and self-organization. He is now a senior staff member at our institute, where he teaches courses in stochastic networks and programming in C and Mathematica.

Dr. Alexander Tyrrell received an MEE in telecommunications and signal processing from ESIEE Paris and a master of research in communication systems from UPMC Paris 6 and ENST Paris in 2005. He received the doctoral degree in technical sciences from the University of Klagenfurt in 2009 with his dissertation “Firefly synchronization in wireless networks.” After working as a researcher in the wireless group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, he joined Rohde & Schwarz, where became a protocol stack developer for 4G and 5G mobile testers (2011–2018). Since 2018, Alexander has been working in the area of advanced driver-assistance systems at BMW AG (Munich area).