Marc-Oliver Pahl (https://s2labs.org/) is research director at the Institute Mines Télécom (IMT) Atlantique, Rennes campus, France. He is the chair holder and research director of the industrial chair “Cyber CNI” that focuses on Cybersecurity for industrial applications. Marc-Oliver also heads the IoT smart space team at Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. He is the coordinator of the digital teaching activities of the German-French Academy for the industry of the future (GFA). Marc-Oliver is the scientific vice president of the German chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Marc-Oliver does Internet of Things (IoT) research since 2008 with a focus on data and service management in edge or local installations. His focus is on security, usability, reliability and resilience. Typical research methodologies include autonomous management, modularization, security-by-design, and data and service modeling. His commonly applied tools include system design and evaluation, machine learning, and distributed ledgers.

In the past, Marc-Oliver coordinated research projects on all levels from more than 20 international partner EU projects to local bilateral industry collaborations. He held most positions in major scientific conferences. His primary research community is the networks and service management community. He is a continuous member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of several major conferences.

Marc-Oliver is continuously teaching at university level since 2003. He holds multiple teaching prices. He supervised more than 150 individual students and several thousands in classroom courses. His biggest teaching project is the iLab series that teaches how distributed networked systems work starting from the Internet going towards novel concepts such as Information Centric Networks and specialization domains such as the Internet of Things. More teaching projects such as the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “iLabX – The Internet Masterclass” (https://ilabx.ilabxp.com/), or the summer school series on “Future Internet of Things” can be found on https://future-iot.org/.