Prof. Dirk Pesch

Prof. Dirk Pesch received a Dipl.-Ing. (MEng) degree from RWTH Aachen University in 1993 and a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde in 1999, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is currently a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork in Ireland, where he leads several research initiatives in the area of future networked systems for the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. Additionally, he is the Director of the Science Foundation Ireland-funded Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies and a co-principal investigator and executive member of the SFI-funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks. His research mainly focuses on the design, optimization, and evaluation of communication protocols, management techniques, and system architectures for the Internet of Things (IoT) and networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and their applications to smart and connected communities, health and well-being, and smart manufacturing. Prior to joining academia, he was a design engineer with Nokia in Germany and the UK.