Olaf M. Maennel

address		Department of Computer Science - N.2.03 Haslegrave Building Loughborough University Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU United Kingdom
birthday		14. September 1973
place of birth		Kassel, Germany
marital status		married

school attendance

01.08.1980 - 31.07.1984
elementary school Am Heideweg, Kassel, Germany

01.08.1984 - 31.07.1990
Gymnasium Heinrich-Schütz, Kassel, Germany

01.08.1990 - 31.07.1993
Gymnasium Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg, Kassel, Germany

education (computer science)

01.08.1993 - 31.03.1997
Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
16.04.1996, Diplomvorprüfung (intermediate exam)

01.04.1997 - 08.05.2002
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
08.05.2002, Diplom (comparable to M.Sc.)
Major: computer science Minor: psychology
Advisor: Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph.D.

09.05.2002 - 31.07.2002
wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Ph.D. candidate)
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

01.08.2002 - 31.10.2005
wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Ph.D. candidate)
Technische Universität München, Germany

24.10.2005, Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat)
Technische Universität München, Germany
Thesis: Handling the complexity of BGP - via characterization, testing and configuration management
Committee:  Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Timothy G. Griffin, Ph.D. and Prof. Bernd Brügge, Ph.D.
(summa cum laude)

professional experience

1.11.2005 - 30.04.2008
Senior research associate
School of Mathematical Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia

26.05.2008 - 31.08.2009
TU-Berlin/T-Labs, Germany
Visiting researcher at Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) Tokyo from May until August 2009.

Since 01.09.2009
Lecturer in Computer Science
Loughborough University, UK

Teaching record:

• COP502 Networks Lab
  (2009/10, Sem 2), (2010/11, Sem 2), (2011/12, Sem 2)
• COP455 Network Systems
  (2009/10, Sem 1), (2010/11, Sem 2), (2011/12, Sem 2)
• COP532 Network Architecture
  (2010/11, Sem 1), (2011/12, Sem 1)
  
  
• Guest lecture at Advanced Internet Architectures (AIA) course at UC3M, Madrid, Spain (2011)
  one guest lecture about Internet topology modelling from MSc and PhD students.
• Internet Measurement Seminar (2008)
  i was responsible for all aspects of the seminar at Technical University Berlin.
• Several guest lecturers at Adelaide University (2006-2008)
  several guest lecturers given in course held by Senior Lecturer Matthew Roughan, and Lecturer David Green.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) pilot course (2007)
  teaching in a pilot lab course at Adelaide University, conducted by the department of computer science with Nick Falkner.
• Seminar Course on Internet Routing (2003, 2004/2005)
  i tutored students and helped to organize the seminar.
• Lab Course on System Performance Evaluation (2004/2005)
  this lab course taught mathematical aspects of network and system performance evaluations.
• Networking Lab Course (4 courses during 2002-2005)
  teaching network architecture, protocol design, router configurations in a theoretical and practical manner.

Current Ph.D. students:

• Askar Jaboldinov (since December 2010, co-supervised with Iain Phillips)
• Ali Alkhamis (since April 2011, co-supervised with Iain Phillips)
• Ahmed Abubakar (since July 2011, co-supervised with Iain Phillips)


• Debbie Perouli (External at Purdue University, supervised by Sonia Fahmy)

Previous Ph.D. students:

• Ashley Flavel (co-supervised with Matt Roughan and Nigel Bean; Ph.D. completed in 2009)

Ph.D. committee member for: (internal or external examiner)

• Talal Edwan (22 September 2010)
  "Improved Algorithms for TCP Congestion Control"
  Committee: Jon Crowcroft (external), and myself (internal)
• Andreas Wundsam (15 July 2011)
  "Towards Improved Control and Troubleshooting for Operational Networks"
  Committee: Laurent Mathy (external), Anja Feldmann (internal), and myself (external)
• Lee Booi Lim (internal, 08 September 2011)
  "Network Delay Control Through Adaptive Queue Management"
  Committee: Irfan Awan (external), and myself (internal)
• Stephen D. Strowes (external, 11 January 2012)
  "Compact Routing for the Future Internet"
  Committee: Jeremy Singer (head), Lewis Mackenzie (internal), and myself (external)

Collaborations and internships:

i was a visiting researcher at Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) Laboratories in Tokyo from May to August 2009. Working with Randy Bush and Kenjiro Cho. i was involved in fundamental routing research, including active routing measurements, network monitoring and debugging.

i worked on a project with Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto (CA), USA on developing more realistic router testing methods. i visited Agilent Labs as an intern several times in February/March 2003, October 2003, September 2004.

In addition, i worked on BGP data characterisation projects with Akamai Technologies, Pittsburgh (PA), USA and Professor Bruce Maggs, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University).

Grants:

• 2012 gift from Cisco: "Towards a higher level configuration specification language" as PI £66,354
• 2009+2010 gift from Cisco. Jointly with Randy Bush on "Explanation of BGP Update 'Background Noise' and 'Spikes' in the Internet".
• 2005 Qantas Researcher Travel Support Scheme.
• 2003 Agilent Laboratories on router testing.
• 2002 gift from Cisco: "Adding Variability to the Test Lab", jointly with my thesis-advisor Prof. Anja Feldmann.

Co-Chair/TPC-CoChair:

• CoNext Student Workshop (2010, co-chair jointly with Brighten Godfrey and Chuanxiong Guo)

Reviewer/Program Committee Member:

2012:
• SIGCOMM 2012 Posters/Demos TPC, Helsinki, August 2012
• USENIX HOT-ICE, San Jose, April 2012
• AFIN 2012, Rome, August, 2012
• Passive & Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Vienna, March 2012
• CCNC MCEN Workshop, Las Vegas, January 2012
• ACCESS 2012, Venice, June 24-29, 2012


2011:
• Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Berlin, Nov 2011
• Third COST TMA International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, Vienna, April 2011
• The Third International Conference on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Nice, August 2011
• IADIS International Conference Telecommunications, Networks and Systems, Rome, July 2011
  
  
2010:
• Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Philadelphia, Nov 2010
• Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Melbourne, Nov 2010
  
  

2008-2011:
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
• Computer Networks Journal (COMNET)
  
  

others:
• Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), 2010 (external reviewer)
• Assessor for the Lillian Elizabeth Bowmaker Bursary, 2010-2013
• Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), 2008 (external)
• Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, 2007
• Interdomain Routing Workshop (IDRWS), 2004

Organizational Committee Member:

• WODNAFO 10, Adelaide, Australia 2010
• Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), 2006
• Interdomain Routing Workshop (IDRWS), 2004
• ACM SIGCOMM, 2003

Relevant IT literacy:
Network operation and management:

• Cisco IOS good knowledge, IOX some.
• Juniper JunOS basics

Programming languages, operating systems and applications:

• Good knowledge: Perl, Python,
• Knowledgable: Haskell, C++, JavaScript, HTML, XML
• Linux (admin-level until 2003), Mac OS X, MS Windows
• LaTeX, MS Office, R

Languages:

German (native), English (fluent); Estonian (learning), French (basics)

Hobbies:

flying, travelling, reading, scuba diving.

Currently i hold an australian, european (JAR-FCL) private pilot license PPL(A) for single-engine airplanes and the australian private instrument rating (PIFR), and UK IMC-rating. i am endorsed on Cirrus SR-22/SR-20, Cessna 182RG, 172RG, C152, Diamond DA-40, Tabago TB10, Piper Archer/Arrow, and Grob G115B. Aerobatics in Decathlon. i did most of my training at Adelaide Flight Training Centre, Adelaide Biplanes and Airship AirService GmbH. Now i'm mainly flying from East-Midlands-Airport with Donair Flying Club.

public key: gpg