Klara Nahrstedt Wins Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

7/1/2009

Klara Nahrstedt has received a prestigious Humboldt Research Award. Nahrstedt is a world-renowned expert in multimedia QoS.

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Klara Nahrstedt, the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fisher Professor in computer science is a winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) grant. The Humboldt Research Award is a very prestigious international scientific award given annually to foreign scholars with internationally recognized academic qualifications.

The award is intended as a lifelong tribute to the past academic accomplishments of award winners. It is given to "eminent non-German researchers whose fundamental discoveries, insights or new theories have had a lasting impact on their field of specialization and who are expected to produce cutting edge results."

Nahrstedt's seminal research in multimedia systems has established her as one of the world's leading experts in the field. She is a chief architect of research on 3-D tele-immersion as well as other distributed multimedia systems at Illinois.

As one of the first researchers in Quality of Service (QoS) in the 1990s, Nahrstedt defined the concept of media quality in distributed networked systems. A principal investigator for the Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking (MONET) Research Group, she leads students in research focusing on multimedia operating systems and communication protocols, QoS middleware and large-scale distributed systems, multimedia security and trustworthy computing systems, advanced tele-immersive and multimedia applications, and high-speed QoS routing and ad hoc networks. Her research group is ranked among the best in the world in the area of network quality of service and quality of service management.
Nahrstedt chairs the Association for Computing Machinery Multimedia Special Interest Group, which provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in all aspects of multimedia computing, communication, storage, and applications.

The Humboldt Research Prize honours the academic achievements to date of internationally recognized scientists and is valued at €60000. Furthermore, award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany in cooperation with German specialist colleagues. Award winners are invited to spend a period of up to one year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist colleagues at a research institution in Germany.


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This story was published July 1, 2009.