Klara Nahrstedt

Klara Nahrstedt is a full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department. Her current research interests are directed toward quality of service (QoS) and resource management in wireless and Internet networks, peer-to-peer streaming systems, pervasive computing and communications, and tele-immersive systems. She and her MONET (Multimedia Operating and Networking Systems) research group have worked on many research projects in multimedia distributed...See more

Klara Nahrstedt is a full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department. Her current research interests are directed toward quality of service (QoS) and resource management in wireless and Internet networks, peer-to-peer streaming systems, pervasive computing and communications, and tele-immersive systems. She and her MONET (Multimedia Operating and Networking Systems) research group have worked on many research projects in multimedia distributed systems, multimedia networking, QoS routing, soft-real-time scheduling, mobile systems and networks, multimedia security, privacy and multimedia applications, which led to over 200 refereed papers in journals and conferences. Professor Nahrstedt has also co-authored widely used multimedia books Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications published by Prentice Hall, and Multimedia Systems published by Springer Verlag. Klara Nahrstedt is the recipient of the Early NSF Career Award, Junior Xerox Award, IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements, University Scholar Award, Humboldt Research Award, and Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professorship. She is a Fellow of the IEEE. See less