Prof. Dr. habil. Odej Kao

Odej Kao is a professor of distributed systems and operating systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin.

Research focus

Cloud Computing
AIOPS (AI-enabled IT Operations)
Ressourcenmanagement
Big Data
Anomalie detection
Massive parallel data and stream processing
Quality of Service and fault tolerance
Design and operation of complex IT infrastructures
Distributed and Operating Systems

Organization name	Distributed and Operating Systems
Room	TEL 1206

Curriculum Vitae


9/2006 - present	Professor for Computer Science (Distributed and Operating Systems) TU Berlin Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Telecommunication systems Berlin, Germany
4/2017 - 04/2023	Chair Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin Germany
12/2020 - present	National Research Network (DFN), Germany
9/2016 - 2/2022	CIO TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
4/2015 - 4/2017	Dean Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin
9/2006 - 3/2018	Director tubIT - IT Service Center, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
4/2013 - 4/2015	Vice-Dean Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin
9/2010 - 12/2016	Scientific Advisor Fraunhofer Institute FIRST/FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
4/2002 - 8/2006	Associated Professor for Computer Science (Operating and Distributed Systems) University of Paderborn Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics Department of Computer Science Paderborn, Germany
4/2003 - 8/2006	Managing Director Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) University of Paderborn Paderborn, Germany
8/1998 - 3/2002	Assistant Professor Technical University of Clausthal Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics Department of Computer Science Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
10/1995 - 7/1998	Teaching/Research Assistant Technical University of Clausthal Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics Department of Computer Science Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
10/1993 - 9/1995	Scientific Assistant Technical University of Clausthal Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics Department of Computer Science Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
2004, 2006, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2022	Visiting Professor National Dong Hwa University and Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Massey University, New Zealand University of California, Irvine, US, Singapore Management University, Singapore, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Education
8/1998 - 4/2002	Advanced Ph.D. (Habilitation) TU Clausthal Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics Department of Computer Science Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Thesis title: Dynamic Retrieval of Multimedia Data on Parallel Architectures
10/1995 - 12/1997	Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) TU Clausthal Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics Department of Computer Science Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Thesis title: New Impulse Noise Cleaning Methods for Monochrome and Colour Images
10/1991 - 9/1995	Diploma (Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical Information Technology) TU Clausthal Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics Department of Computer Science Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Thesis title: New Impulse Noise Cleaning Methods for Monochrome and Colour Images
1991	German course TU Clausthal
1986 -1990	High School Rade Korcagin, Skopje

Professional Activities

Chairman of the board ECDF (Einstein Center Digital Future)

Chairman of the board DFN (Deutsches Forschungsnetzwerk)

Director committee member graduate school Heibrids

Member Advisor Board on Digitalisation, Berlin

Reviewer Cluster Computing, Springer

Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Reviewer Government information quarterly, Elsevier

Reviewer Journal on Computers and Security, Elsevier

Reviewer Software: Practice and Experience

Reviewer IEEE Computer

Reviewer ACM computing survey

Reviewer Journal Microprocessors and Microsystems, Elsevier

Reviewer Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier

Reviewer Journal IEEE Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Reviewer Datenbank-Spektrum

Editorial board Parallel Computing

Reviewer Journal of Systems and Software

Reviewer IEEE Communications Magazine

Editorial board International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology

Editorial board Journal of Internet Technology

Reviewer Journal on Future Generation Computer Systems

Reviewer Journal of Systems and Software

Reviewer Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Reviewer Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Reviewer IEEE Communications Magazine

Reviewer Journal of mathematical and computer modeling

Reviewer Journal on Mobile Information Systems

Reviewer of the Optical Computer Society

Reviewer IEEE Communications Magazine

Reviewer BMBF

Reviewer DFG

Reviewer Agency for Science, Technology, and Research A*STAR, Singapore

Reviewer Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Reviewer Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)

Reviewer Agence Nationale Recherche (ANR), France

Reviewer Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Reviewer Zeiss Foundation

Reviewer National Science Center Poland

Reviewer UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Guest editor International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), special issue Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering

Guest editor Special Issue titled "Emergence in User Experience and Quality of Service for Internet of Things"

Member of the DFG board on IT infrastructures

Member of the DFN board

Member of the DFG board on Scientific Libraries and Informationmanagement (AWBI)

Member of the DFG board on Information Management

Member Board of Directors HIS Gmbh

Associated editor Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS)

Associated editor Frontiers in Big Data

Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)

Co-Chair The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing

Co-chair AI-enabled Operations for IT systems (AIOPs) 2020

Co-chair InterCloud-HPC 2018

Co-chair InterCloud-HPC 2017

Local Chair EuroPar2013 for Cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing

Reviewer Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung/Foundation

Reviewer Advances in Parallel Computing: High Performance Computing and Big Data: Ecosystem and Convergence, IOS press

Program Committee member of the Workshop on Autonomic and Self-* Management for the Edge-Cloud Continuum (ASMECC 2023)

Program Committee member of the 22nd International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2022)

Program committee member of the IEEE BigData 2022 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in IT Operations

Program Committee member of the MLSys'22 Workshop on Cloud Intelligence / AIOps, 2022

Program Committee member of the 21st International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2021)

Program committee member of the International Symposium on Innovation in Information and Communication Technology (ISIICT2021)

Program committee member of The First Workshop on Dependability Modeling and Design 2021

Program committee member of the Web Conference, 2022

Program committee member of Cloud Intelligence Workshop@ICSE'21, 2021

Program committee member of the Web Conference 2021

Program committee member Hochschule 2030, GI Jahrestagung 2020

Program committee member of the Web Conference 2020

Program committee member of the IEEE Conference on eScience 2019

Program Committee member of the 19th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2019)

Program committee member of The 2019 International Conference on Parallel Computing ParCo 2019

Program Committee member of the 18th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2018)

Program committee member 15th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2018)

Program committee member Hochschule 2028, GI Jahrestagung 2018

Program committee membe 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017)

Program committee member ASBDA 2017 International Workshop on Autonomic Systems for Big Data Analytics 2017

Program committee member Hochschule 2026, GI Jahrestagung 2017

Program Committee member of the 17th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2017)

Co-Chair InterCloud 2017

Program committee member 2017 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC 2017)

Program committee member Tools for an Energy Efficient Cloud TEEC 2016

Co-Chair InterCloud 2016

Program committee member Hochschule 2026, GI Jahrestagung 2016

Co-Chair InterCloud 2015

Program committee member ISC Cloud & Big Data 2015

Program committee member Hochschule 2025, GI Jahrestagung 2015

PC Member 6th International Conference on Data Communication Networking (DCNET 2015)

PC member 27th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, SBAC-PAD 2015

PC Member 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2015) (Big Data and Big Data Science)

PC member The 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud 2015

Program committee member Hochschule 2020, GI Jahrestagung 2015

Program committee member Hochschule 2020, GI Jahrestagung 2014

Program committee member and reviewer ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2014

Reviewer EuroPar 2014

Program committee member 5. International Symposium on Innovation in Information and Communication Technology 2014

Program committee member Virtualisation Workshop in scope of Informatik 2013

Program committee member Hochschule 2020, GI Jahrestagung 2013

Reviewer EuroPar 2013

Program Committee memeber of the 10th International Workshop on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2013)

Local Chair EuroPar 2013 for Cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing

Program committee member Hochschule 2020, GI Jahrestagung 2012

Program committee member at the 2rd IET International Conference on Frontier Computing – Theory, Technologies and Applications

Programm committee member 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2012

Program committee member 2nd IET International Conference on Frontier Computing – Theory, Technologies and Applications

Program committee member Third International Symposium on Innovation in Information and Communication Technology 2012

Program Committee memeber of the 9th International Workshop on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2012)

Program committee member of the 5th IEEE Conference on ubiquietous media (U-media 2012)

Program Committee memeber 2011 IEEE Asia-Pacidifc Conference on Service Computing (IEEE APSCC 2011)

Program committee member Grid Workflow workshop 2011

Program Committee memeber of the 8th International Workshop on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2011)

Program co-chair of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media'2011)

Program committee member Hochschule 2020 in scope og 41 GI Jahrestagung

Program committee member Grid Workflow workshop 2010

Program Committee memeber 2010 IEEE Asia-Pacidifc Conference on Service Computing (IEEE APSCC 2010)

Program Committee memeber of the 7th International Workshop on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON 2010)

Program committee member DATE 2010

Reviewer Book on High Performance & Large Scale Computing, Advances in Parallel Computing, IOS Press.

Pogram Committee member of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2010)

Program Committee member of the 2009 International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009)

Program Committee member of the 2009 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2009)

Program Committee member of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2009)

Program Committee member of the 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

Program committee member of the Third International Symposium on Innovation in Information and Communication Technology (ISIICT2009)

Program Committee member of the UNICORE Summit 2008

Program Committee member of the International Workshop IMPAR 2008 - The Impact of New Architectures on Parallel Programming.

Reviewer 16th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS 2008)

Program Committee member of the International Symposium on Foundationsof Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2008)

Program Committee member of the workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM07) associated with 13. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD07)

Program Committee member of the international Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo 2007)

Program Committee member of the UNICORE Summit 2007

ReviewerInternational Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS 2007)

Reviewer 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (APWEB WAIM 07)

Program Committee member IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and EXPO (ICME 2007)

Reviewer Special Issue of Parallel Computing Journal on Large Scale Grid (Elsevier)

Programm Committee of the International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems 2008

Program Committee of the IEEE Workshop on Mining Complex Data (MCD 2006)

Co-Chair 3rd International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR-06) - Workshop in conjunction with the

17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy

Program Committee member of the UNICORE Summit 2006

Reviewer WAIM 2006 (The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management)

Program Committee of the 7. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2006)

Reviewer 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2006)

Reviewer Information Resources Management Journal

Reviewer Dagstuhl Seminar Future Generation Grids 2005

Reviewer 19th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing

Reviewer EuroPar 2005

Reviewer 17th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Program Committee of the 6. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2005)

Program Committee of the International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo 2005)

Program Committee of the 2005 conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2005)

Program Committee of the IEEE Workshop on Mining Complex Data (MCD 2005)

Technical Program Committee member IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and EXPO (ICME 2005)

Program Committee member of Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN 2005)

Program area chair Internet and Web Applications @ The 19th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2005)

Reviewer for the Journal Annals of Cases on Information Technology

Reviewer International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

General Chair of the Topic High-Performance Multimedia at EuroPar 2004

Program Committee of the 2004 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA 2005)

Program Committee of the 5. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2004)

Reviewer for the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Idea Group Publishing, 2004

Program Committee of the 2004 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA 2004)

Program Committee of The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2004)

Reviewer Eleventh International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems WPDRTS 2003

Program Committee of the Workshop on Multimedia Discovery and Mining (14th Conference on Machine Learning (ECML)/7th Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD))

Program Committee of the 4. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2003)

Program Committee of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN'2003)

Program Committee of the 9th International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling (MMM03)

Program Committee of International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2003)

Program Committee of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN'2002)

Program Committee of the 3. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2002)

General Chair of the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Retrieval of Multimedia Data (PDMPR 2002)

Program Committee of the 2. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2001)

General chair of the The 2001 International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia Processing & Retrieval (PDMPR 2001)

Program Committee of the Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2000)

Theses

Supervised PhD Theses by Prof. Kao

Jasmin Bogatinovski: AI-enabled Log Analysis for Improving IT System Dependability, 2023
Daniel Schröder: Explaining News Spreading Phenomena in Social Networks: from Data Acquisition and Processing to Network Analysis and Modelling , 2021
Li Wu: Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Recovery in Cloud Microservices, 2021
Alexander Acker: Anomaly Symptom Recognition in Distributed IT Systems, 2021
Sasho Nedelkoski: Deep Anomaly Detection in Distributed Software Systems, 2021
Florian Johannes Schmidt: Anomaly Detection in Cloud Computing Environments, 2020
Anton Gulenko: Autonomic Self-Healing in Cloud Computing Platforms, 2020
Thomas Renner: Data and Container Placement in Scalable Data Analytics Platforms, 2018
Mareike Höger: Fault Tolerance in Parallel Data Processing Systems, 2018
Tim Jungnickel: On the Feasibility of Multi-Leader Replication in the Early Tiers, 2018
Lauritz Thamsen: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Distributed Dataflows, 2018
Alexander Stanik: Service Level Agreement Mediation, Negotiation and Evaluation for Cloud Services in Intercloud Environments, 2016
Björn Lohrmann: Massively Parallel Stream Processing with Latency Guarantees, 2015
Marc Körner: Software Defined Networking based Data-Center Service, 2015
Andreas Kliem: Cooperative Device Cloud – Provisioning Embedded Devices in Ubiquitous Environments, 2015
Philipp Berndt: Decentralized Sensor Fusion using Periodic Peer-to-Peer Hypercube Gossiping
Martin Raack: Papnet: An order-preserving and latency-aware P2P Overlay and its Applications
Daniel Warneke: Massively Parallel Data Processing on Infrastructure as a Service Platforms, 2011
André Höing: Orchestrating Secure Workflows for Cloud and Grid Service, 2010
Thomas Hildmann: Umfassendes Autorisierungsmanagement, 2009
Kerstin Voss: Supporting SLA Provisioning in Grids by Risk Management Processes, 2008
Dominic Battré: Efficient Query Processing in DHT-based RDF Stores, 2008
Stefan Lietsch: A Novel Approach to Interactive, Distributed Visualization and Simulation on Hybrid Cluster Systems, 2008
Sabina Rips: Adaptive Steuerung der Lastverteilung datenparalleler Anwendungen in Grid Umgebungen, 2006
Ulf Rerrer-Brusch: Service Matching with Contextualised Ontologies, 2006
Matthias Hovestadt: Service Level Agreement aware Resource Management, 2006
Dang Minh Quan: A Framework for SLA-aware Execution of Grid-based Workflows, 2006
Felix Heine: P2P based RDF Querying and Reasoning for Grid Resource Description and Matching, 2006
Hua Chen: Real-time object extraction for mixed reality applications, 2005
Stefan Geisler: Inhaltsbasierte Videokodierung, 2005
Ingo La Tendresse: Skizzen-Feedback für die Suche in Bilddatenbanken, Institut für Informatik, 2003

Publikationen Prof. Odej Kao

2023

Behnke, Ilja; Blumschein, Christoph; Danicki, Robert; Wiesner, Philipp; Thamsen, Lauritz; Kao, Odej
Towards a real-time IoT: Approaches for incoming packet processing in cyber-physical systems
Journal of Systems Architecture
May 2023
Publisher: Elsevier

DOI: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2023.102891
File: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.01985