I am an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunication at the Technical University Delft, the Netherlands. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of Colorado, USA. My research focus is the field of complex and dynamical systems, specifically I am currently working in the following areas - Social Network Analysis, where I am studying the interaction and communication of individuals in large scale communities through structural and semantic analysis of behavioral patterns, - Robustness of Networks, where I am working on design criteria to improve robustness in critical infrastructures against failures and attacks, and building up a high-performance cluster to measure the utility of protection schemes through hardware experiments, - Coordination through Collective Intelligence, where I am investigating how emergent behavior may be used, controlled and adapted to address engineering problems. This work is a continuation of a previous study, which demonstrated that efficient coordination in wireless communication networks, called Cognitive Radio Networks, may be elegantly achieved through the principles of swarm intelligence. You can read a summary article here .

Teaching and Education

• There are several new M.Sc. projects available. Come by my office, or see the list on this website or on the NAS web site (within TU Delft campus).
• In Q1 2009/10, I will be teaching ET4359 Advances in Networking

Selected Publications (for full list click here)

• Doerr, Grunwald and Sicker: "Local Control of Cognitive Radio Networks". Annals of Telecommunication, 2009. pdf
• Doerr, von Dincklage and Diwan: "Simplifying Web Traversals by Recognizing User Behavior Patterns". ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 2007. pdf

Current Professional Activities

• Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM) 2009, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2009, IEEE Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Networks and Systems (CogNets) 2009, IEEE LCN Workshop on Security in Communication Networks 2009, IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2010, International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2010

Students
I have the pleasure to work with

• Javier Martin Hernandez on heuristics for dissecting complex networks
• Paula Sampietro on the role of communities and friendships for information spreading in social networks
• Stojan Trajanovski