Brief CV


Kai joined the Aachen University's (RWTH) Computer Science Department as a member of technical staff in 1985. Since 1987, he has been Head of Technical Staff, Chair of Informatik 4 (Communication & Distributed Systems).

Earlier research interests and activities concentrated broadly on the user-friendliness of communication networks. This included, for instance, support of group communication, user-friendly naming, directory services, and services to be provided by the underlying infrastructure. More recently, interest shifted to various aspects of standards and the standardisation process, focussing on the individual's role in standards setting, and on the pros and cons of user participation in this process. In addition, he has still been working on a number of projects on various aspects of information networks.

Kai is (co)-author/editor of a text book on data communication and, more recently, nine books on standardisation processes in IT. More than 170 of his papers have been published in conference proceedings, books, and journals. He has been on the programme committees of numerous international conferences, and has also served as an external expert on evaluation panels of various European R&D programmes, on both technical and socio-economic issues. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.

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