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Volker Hilt

Volker Hilt

Lab Leader, System Architecture & Solution Design Lab

Stuttgart, Germany

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Biography

Dr. Volker Hilt is vice president of Nokia Bell Labs, IEEE Fellow and Bell Labs Fellow. He leads an innovative team of software researchers, architects and engineers at Nokia Bell Labs creating cutting-edge software solutions with high impact. He and his team have defined new products, key product features, industry standards and have advanced the state-of-the-art in software systems. 

Volker has made key technical contributions in AI-based systems, high-performance serverless, cloud orchestration, edge clouds, large-scale content distribution, peer-to-peer systems, and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). He has co-developed Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, Internet drafts and RFCs. Volker has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim in Germany and has held positions in the US and Germany. 

Education
  • Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science
    University of Mannheim, Germany
    June 2001
  • Master of Information Technology (Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker)
    University of Mannheim, Germany
    December 1996
     
Selected Articles and Publications
  • Edge Clouds & AI in Digital Enterprises, Volker Hilt, Keynote at ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, 2024
  • Analyzing Declarative Deployment Code with Large Language Models, Giacomo Lanciano, Manuel Stein, Volker Hilt, Tommaso Cucinotta, ACM Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) 2023, Prague, CZ, April 2023. 
  • Edge Clouds - Current State and Future Directions, Volker Hilt, Keynote at ACM EuroSys / EdgeSys Workshop, 2021 
  • Serverless Design for High-Performance Applications, Volker Hilt, Keynote at ACM MobiSys / MobileServerless Workshop, 2021
  • SAND: Towards High-Performance Serverless Computing, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Ruichuan Chen, Ivica Rimac, Manuel Stein, Klaus Satzke, Andre Beck, Paarijaat Aditya, Volker Hilt, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Boston, MA, USA, Jul 2018.
  • ORCA: an ORChestration Automata for Configuring VNFs, Jesus Omana Iglesias, Jordi Arjona Aroca, Volker Hilt, and Diego Lugones, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2017, Las Vegas, NV, Dec 2017.
  • Measurement Study of Netflix, Hulu, and a Tale of Three CDNs, Vijay K Adhikari, Yang Guo, Fang Hao, Volker Hilt, Zhi-Li Zhang, Matteo Varvello, Moritz Steiner, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.23 No. 6, 2015
  • Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Overload Control, Vijay Gurbani, Volker Hilt, Henning Schulzrinne, IETF, RFC 7339, September 2014.
  • Unreeling Netflix: Understanding and Improving Multi-CDN Movie Delivery. Vijay Adhikari, Yang Guo, Fang Hao, Matteo Varvello, Volker Hilt, Moritz Steiner, Zhi-Li Zhang, IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, USA, March 2012.
  • Toward Energy Efficient Content Dissemination, Uichin Lee, Ivica Rimac, Daniel Kilper, Volker Hilt, IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Networks, Vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 14-19, March-April 2011.
  • Controlling Overload in Networks of SIP Servers, Volker Hilt, Indra Widjaja, IEEE ICNP 2008, Orlando, FL, October 2008.
     
Patents
  • Network load balancing and overload control, Volker Hilt, Indra Widjaja, US Patent 9,219,686, 2015
  • Cache management system and method and content distribution system incorporating the same, Simon Borst, James Ensor, Volker Hilt, Markus Hofmann, Ivica Rimac, Anwar Walid, US Patent 8,949,161, 2015
  • Topology aware cache cooperation, Jairo Esteban, Andre Beck, Volker Hilt, Ivica Rimac, US Patent 8,417,816, 2013
  • Systems and methods for network routing, Volker Hilt, Markus Hofmann, Srinivasan Seetharaman, Mostafa Ammar, US Patent 8,565,117, 2013
     
Memberships
  • IEEE Fellow 
  • International Steering Committee member of IEEE ICIN 
  • General chair of ACM EuroSys / International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys) 2022, 2023 and 2024
  • General chair of IEEE Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys) 2017
  • General chair of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2013
  • 2019 Steering Committee Member of IEEE INFOCOM / Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCN) 
  • 2010 – 2015 Co-chair of IETF SIP Overload Control Working Group
  • 2009 – 2013 Co-chair of IRTF Peer-to-Peer Research Group and Member of IRTF/Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG)
  • Review panelist for National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • TPC co-chair and member of selected IEEE and ACM conferences and workshops
  • Guest lectures at Columbia University, NY and University of Tübingen, Germany
     

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