Narhstedt Receives 2018 Robert Piloty Prize For Outstanding Research

2/15/2019

Nahrstedt has longstanding ties to German computer science and is internationally recognized for her work in multimedia systems and networks.

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Illinois Computer Science Professor Klara Nahrstedt has received the 2018 for her contributions to multimedia systems and networks research. The Piloty Prize is conferred by the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany to researchers who have demonstrated “outstanding achievements and exceptional research and development work in the fields of computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, and mathematics.”

Professor Klara Nahrstedt, shown during the award ceremony Feb. 15 in Darmstadt, calls her collaboration with TU Darmstadt "one of the most productive of my career." ( Photos: Gregor Rynkowski)
Professor Klara Nahrstedt, shown during the award ceremony Feb. 15 in Darmstadt, calls her collaboration with TU Darmstadt "one of the most productive of my career." ( Photos: Gregor Rynkowski)

Nahrstedt, the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Computer Science and director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory, is internationally recognized for her work in multimedia systems and networks. Her fundamental work on energy-efficient dynamic soft-real-time CPU scheduling for mobile multimedia devices, and development of first energy-efficient OS for mobile multimedia devices, GRACE-OS, have been widely recognized in academia and industry.

In the field of 3D tele-immersive systems and networking, Nahrstedt was the first to develop a multi-view 3D video adaptation framework for bandwidth management and view-casting protocols for multi-view 3D video. She also developed new metrics for 3D immersive video and the first comprehensive framework based on sound theoretical underpinnings for Quality of Experience in Distributed Interactive Multimedia Environments.

A fellow of ACM and IEEE, Nahrstedt has strong ties to the German computer science and engineering community.

The Robert Piloty Prize. Professor Klara Nahrstedt has enjoyed a strong relationship with TU Darmstadt for many years.
The Robert Piloty Prize. Professor Klara Nahrstedt has enjoyed a strong relationship with TU Darmstadt for many years.

She is a member of the Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) in Germany and belongs to the Excellence Commission appointed by the Joint Science Conference of the German Federal Government and the Länder. She also has enjoyed a strong relationship with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and the Department of Computer Science at the TU Darmstadt for many years, including as project manager in the Collaborative Research Centre 1053 (MAKI) of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Nahrstedt also is a longtime collaborator of Professor Ralf Steinmetz of TU Darmstadt, with whom Nahrstedt has co-authored two textbooks, “Mutilmedia Computing, Communications, and Applications” (1995) and “Multimedia Systems” (2004).

The award was presented to Nahrstedt, along with mathematician Wolfgang Dahmen, in Germany on Feb. 15.

“My collaboration with the TU Darmstadt has been one of the most productive of my career, and I am deeply honored to receive this award,” Nahrstedt said.


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This story was published February 15, 2019.