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 2011/12, I will be teaching again ET4359 Advances in Networking

Selected Publications (for full list click here)

• Doerr, Tang, Blenn and Van Mieghem: "Are Friends Overrated? A Study for the Social Aggregator Digg.com". Computer Communications 35(7), 2012 pdf sciencedirect bibtex
• Doerr, Grunwald and Sicker: "Local Control of Cognitive Radio Networks". Annals of Telecommunication, 2009. pdf
• Doerr and Hernandez: "A Computational Approach to Network Resilience". (Metric Envelopes) DEPEND 2010 pdf bibtex
• Doerr, von Dincklage and Diwan: "Simplifying Web Traversals by Recognizing User Behavior Patterns". ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 2007. pdf

News

• Latest journal article on social network digg.com appeared at Elsevier
• Short interview with me in an ENISA video on Internet resilience metrics
• Interview with Radio Netherlands on telecom operator and information security

Current Professional Activities

• Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2010, International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2010, IFIP Networking 2011, IFIP Networking 2012, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2012
• Organizing Commitee Member of IWSOS 2012 and WNR 2011

Students
I have the pleasure to work with

• Norbert Blenn on various topics in social networks
• Javier Martin Hernandez on heuristics for dissecting complex networks
• Jing He on prediction of accumulated user behavior and information propagation in social networks
• Nasir Shadravan on privacy issues in social networks
• Kassandra Charalampidou on detecting influences between people in a social network on personal opinions
• Mike Noordermeer on real-time network capacity detection
• Farhad Sarabchi on influence in social networks

Graduated Students

• Bas van Kester on data analysis and optimized crawling techniques for large scale networks
• Paula Sampietro on the role of communities and friendships for information spreading in social networks