Short biography

Poul E. Heegaard received his Siv.ing. degree (M.S.E.E. ) in 1989 from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Trondheim, Norway. He was awarded the degree Dr. Ing. (PhD) from NTH, University of Trondheim in 1998. The title of my thesis: "Efficient simulation of network performance by importance sampling".

Heegaard was Associate Professor (2006-2010) and since 2010 he is Professor at Department of Telematics, NTNU. He was the coordinator of the Network Research area from 2004-2009, and since 2009 he has been the head of the department. From 1999 - 2009 he was a Senior Research Scientist position at Telenor R&I. He has previously been a Research Scientist and Senior Scientist at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics (1989-1999). In 1994-1998 he was a research scholar at Department of Telematics, NTNU, and in 1999 he became an adjunct associate professor at the same department.

His research interests cover performance, dependability and survivability evaluation and management of communication systems. Special interests is in rare event simulation techniques, and monitoring, routing and management in dynamic networks. He has developed a java-based traffic generator called GenSyn. His current research focus is on distributed, autonomous and adaptive management and routing in communication networks and services. Heegaard has been active in several EU-IST collaborations.

Heegaard is the author/co-author of a number of research papers, reports and lecture notes. He has given numerous talks in national and international meetings and conferences. He has been part of international organization committees (e.g. General Chair for RESIM 2012), program committees (e.g. DSN 2011). He is also an expert reviewer for different journals and PhD committees.

See Heegaard's home page for more details.