Author: Klara Nahrstedt
Affiliation: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Country: USA
Personal Website: Klara Nahrstedt
Research Group Website: The Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking (MONET) Research Group

Bibliography: Ruzena Bajcsy, Klara Nahrstedt and Lisa Wymore, "Humans in Real and Virtual Space: Studies of Interaction and Collaboration Mediated by Information Technology", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.573-575, 2006.

Dr. Klara Nahrstedt is a full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department. Her research interests are directed toward multimedia distributed systems, quality of service(QoS) management in wired and mobile ad hoc networks, QoS routing, QoS-aware resource management in distributed multimedia systems, QoS-aware middleware systems, Quality of Protection in multimedia systems, and tele-immersive applications. She is the recipient of the Early NSF Career Award, the Junior Xerox Award, and the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements. She is the editor-in-chief of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, and the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor. Klara Nahrstedt received her BA in mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, in 1984, and M.Sc. degree in numerical analysis from the same university in 1985. She was a research scientist in the Institute for Informatik in Berlin until 1990. In 1995 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science. She is the member of ACM and IEEE.