Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things in delivering Smart City Services

Dr Dirk Pesch

Nimbus Centre, Cork Institute of Technology

Dr Dirk Pesch is Head of the Nimbus Research Centre at Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland. Prior to joining CIT in 1999, he was a research fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, and was a design engineer with Nokia in Germany and England. He holds a Dipl.Ing degree from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, and a PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His expertise centres around modelling, analysis, and design of algorithms, protocols, and services for wireless sensor and actuator networks, cyber-physical systems, and Internet of Things with applications in energy management, transportation, and smart cities. Dr Pesch has been involved in national and international research projects funded by the International Energy Research Centre, Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, and the European Commission. He is an SFI funded Investigator in the CONNECT SFI Centre and jointly holds an SFI Investigator Award researching networks and service for smart cities. He has been involved in a number of EU funded projects including being the coordinator of the EU FP7 projects SCUBA and GENIC, focused on cyber-physical systems in future building automation systems and data centre energy management platforms respectively. Dirk has co-authored 8 book chapters and made over 180 publications in his area of expertise. He is on the editorial board of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing and the Springer Wireless Networks journal. He also contributes to conference organisation as chair/member of technical programme commitees of a large number of leading international conferences and workshops.