Matthias Wählisch

Matthias Wählisch is a Professor and Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at TU Dresden's Faculty of Computer Science. Previously, he led the Internet Technologies group at Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on Internet protocols, network security, mobile networking, IoT, and information-centric networking. He has advised numerous theses and contributed to open-source projects like RIOT OS and CAF_C++ Actor Framework.

Research Interests

• Design and analysis of Internet protocols (BGP, IPv6)
• Cybersecurity and network measurements
• Mobile and IoT networking
• Information-centric networking (ICN)

Awards

• Best Community Contribution Award ACM CoNEXT 2022
• Winner of International IPv6 Application Contest 2009
• Best Demo Award IEEE LCN 2018

His work includes projects like Peeroskop (German Internet backbone analysis) and X-Check (security anomaly detection). He actively engages in standardization and open-source software development.