Curriculum Vitae

Stefan Schmid Dr. Stefan Schmid (Ph.D.)
Computer Scientist,  Senior Expert for Knowledge Engineer and Digital Twin Technologies

Personal Information

Address: Hausgärten
71332 Waiblingen
Germany
Birthday: January 1971
Nationality: German
Work: +49 (0)711-81149826
Mobile: +49 (0)152-58813426
Email: sjschmid@web.de
Web: http://www.sjschmid.de/
Work Experience
Since 2019 Senior Expert for Knowledge Engineering and Digital Twin Technologies

Robert Bosch Corporate Research, Stuttgart-Renningen, Germany

Responsibilities: Project Lead and Senior Expert in the Department for Advanced Digital Technologies (CR/ADX)

Research Focus: Knowledge Engineering, AI, AIoT, Digital Twin Technologies
01/2016
to
12/2018		  Senior Expert – Internet of Things

Robert Bosch Corporate Research, Stuttgart-Renningen, Germany

Research Position in the Department for Advanced Digital Technologies (CR/ADT)

Responsibilities:
– Lead Architect for the Data Marketplace in the EU Project BIG IoT
– Portfolio Management support for the Bosch Strategic Portfolio: Internet of Things (IoT)

Research Focus: Semantic Web Technologies, Internet of Things and Services (IoTS)
12/2015
to
08/2013		  Research Engineer – Ubiquitous Personal Assistance

Robert Bosch Corporate Research, Stuttgart-Renningen, Germany

Research Position in the strategic project Ubiquitous Personal Assistant (UPA)

Research Focus: Personal Assistants, Smart Services, Internet of Things and Services (IoTS)

04/2010
to
08/2013

 Manager – Mobile and Wireless Network Research Group

NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany

Responsibilities:Definition of group’s R&D strategy, HR Management responsibility for 13-15 researchers, acquisition of research budget, and contribution to the definition of NEC’s strategy for future mobile network and carrier cloud solutions Standardization: 3GPP SA2 – Congestion Management (Rapporteur), Traffic Offload, Broadband Access Network Interworking & Convergence Policy Control, Energy Efficiency; and Femto Forum – Enterprise Femtocell Networks

04/2007
to
03/2010

 Manager – Next Generation Networks Group

NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany

Responsibilities: Definition of group’s R&D strategy, HR Management responsibility for 8-10 researchers, acquisition of research budget, technical coordination of 3GPP SA2 standards work, technical management of EU Project BeFEMTO Standardization: 3GPP SA2 – System Architecture Evolution (SAE), non-3GPP access networks, Policy Control and Charging, and Femtocell solutions
03/2004
to
03/2007		 Senior Research Scientist

NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany

Full-time position in the Next Generation Internet Research Group
Responsibilities: Acquisition, execution and management of research projects (EU and internal), strategy discussions with Business Units, and technology transferStandardization: 3GPP SA2 – System Architecture Evolution (SAE)
03/1998
to
02/2004		 Research Associate

Computing Department, Lancaster University, U.K.

Full-time position in the Distributed Multimedia Research Group of Prof. David Hutchison

Responsibilities: Acquisition, execution, and management of research projects; Collaboration with industry; research consulting; evaluation of external research; and teaching

Standardization: IETF – IPv6 FlowLabel
09/1996
to
02/1998		 Research Assistant

Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ulm, Germany

Part-time position in the Distributed Systems Group, with Prof. Konrad Froitzheim

Responsibilities: Conduction of research projects and teaching support
08/1995
to
08/1996		 Research Assistant

Computer Science Department, University of West Florida, USA

Part-time position at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition of Prof. Kenneth Ford

Responsibilities: Collaboration in research projects; teaching support; and system and network administration
06/1994
to
07/1995		 Student Researcher

Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ulm, Germany

Part-time position in the Teaching Systems Group (“Unterrichts- rechnergruppe”)

Responsibilities: Administration of the departments Unix pool (about 70 SUN workstations)
07/1993
to
05/1994		 Instructor

Adult Evening School, Münsingen, Germany

Responsibilities: Development and teaching of adult evening classes (Introduction to personal computers)
10/1991
to
10/1992		 System Programmer

Setec Maschinenbau GmbH, Münsingen, Germany

Full-time position in R&D

Responsibilities: Development of machine control programs in Assembler (Z80) and Turbo Pascal
Education
10/1998
to
11/2002		 Lancaster University, U.K.

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Thesis Title: “A Component-based Active Router Architecture”

Research Areas: Distributed Systems and Computer Networks, Active and Programmable Networks, Network Services and Software Components
09/1996
to
04/1999		 University of Ulm, Germany

M.Sc. in Computer Science (“Diplom Informatik”)

Master Degree in Computer Science with Minor in Electrical Engineering

Thesis Title: “QoS based Real-Time Audio Streaming on the Internet“

Research Areas: Real-time Communication, Audio/Video streaming, IPv6, Quality-of-Service
08/1995
to
08/1996		 University of West Florida, USA

Exchange Student (M.Sc. Program)

Study and Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Neuronal Networks, Robotic, Expert Systems, Internet Communication and Services
10/1992
to
07/1995		 University of Ulm, Germany

B.Sc. in Computer Science (“Vordiplom in Informatik”)

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science with Minor in Electrical Engineering
08/1981
to
06/1990		 Schools

High School (“Allgemeines Gymnasium”) in Münsingen, Germany

Completed the German “Allgemeines Abitur”
Civil Service
06/1990
to
10/1991		 General Hospital in Münsingen, Germany
Languages
German – Native Language
English – Fluent  (lived 7 years abroad in U.S. and U.K.)
French – Basic Skills
Research Work and Results
Publications, Presentations and Tutorials

  • Over 100 publications in academic journals, international conferences and workshops
  • Keynote speeches at ACM IWCMC 2009, TNMO 2011 and Wireless Days 2012
  • Invited talks at various events (e.g. EU Information Society, UKERNA, Dagstuhl Seminars, Microsoft Research, Fraunhofer and various Universities)
  • Conference tutorials (e.g. on Mobile IPv6 at IDMS 2001)

International Research Projects

  • 1996-1999: EU CoBrow/D Project at University of Ulm (Student Researcher)
  • 1999-2001: LandMARC Project (funded by Microsoft) at Lancaster University (Researcher)
  • 2001-2003: Mobile IPv6 Systems Research Lab (funded by Cisco, Microsoft and Orange) at Lancaster University (Project Acquisition and Researcher)
  • 2004-2005: EU FP5 Project Ambient Networks at NEC Labs (Researcher)
  • 2006-2010: EU FP6 Project Autonomic Network Architecture (Project Acquisition, Workpackage Leader and Researcher)
  • 2008-2010: EU FP7 Project CARMEN (Consultant)
  • 2010-2012: EU FP7 Project BeFEMTO (Project Acquisition and Technical Project Manager)
  • 2010-2013: EU FP7 Project UniverSelf (Project Acquisition and Consultant)
  • 2012-2015: EU FP7 Project Mobile Cloud Networking (Project Acquisition and Researcher)
  • 2016-2018: EU H2020 Project BIG IoT
    (Project Acquisition and Lead Architect of Data Marketplace)
  • 2019-2022: BMWi Project: KI – Delta Learning
    (Project Acquisition and Researcher)

Academic Conferences and Activities

  • Organisation of international conferences and workshops, e.g. IDMS 2001, IEEE ACNM 2007-2009, Future Network Architecture Workshop 2010, European Workshop on Broadband Femtocell Networks 2011
    Since 2001
  • TPC member and reviewer for many academic conferences and journals, e.g. IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE GlobeCom, IFIP Networking
  • External Ph.D. Examiner at University of New South Wales, Australia

Intellectual Property

  • 50+ patent applications filed
  • 15+ patents granted (12/2022); some filed patents are still under examination
Awards
October 2009 NEC Standardization Award
2009 Award Winner in the category: Best Achievements – for the successful contributions to the standardization of the Evolved Packet Core in the 3GPP System Architecture Working Group (SA2) in Rel-8.Responsibilities: System Design, IPR Work and Standardisation
June 2003 Lancaster University Commercialisation Award
2003 Award Winner: LandMARC Project Team for the notable involvement in the development of Mobile IPv6 for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and .NET Server, and the acquisition of industry funding in the order of £750,000 from Cisco Systems, Microsoft Research and Orange Ltd.

Responsibilities: Software Development, Testing and Coordination
July 2002 Microsoft Windows Embedded Academic Excellence Award
2002-2003 Award Winner: LandMARC Project Team of Lancaster University for the development of (Mobile) IPv6 for Windows CE 4.x.

Responsibilities: Software Design, Development and Coordination