Stefan Schulte

Stefan Schulte is an Associate Professor at TU Wien's Faculty of Informatics, holding a habilitation in Computer Science. His roles include Vice Dean of Academic Affairs for Business Informatics. He earned a diploma in economics, bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Oldenburg, and master’s from the University of Newcastle. He completed his PhD at TU Darmstadt and habilitation at TU Wien. His research focuses on data engineering, elastic computing, IoT, QoS/QoE, fog computing, and blockchain for data provenance. He leads projects like SIMPLI-CITY and CREMA, coordinating EU-funded initiatives.

Education: Diploma in Economics (Oldenburg), BSc Computer Science (Oldenburg), MSc Information Technology (Newcastle), PhD (TU Darmstadt, 2010), habilitation (TU Wien, 2018).

Research Interests:

• Data stream processing in IoT and smart systems
• Elastic computing frameworks for cloud/fog environments
• Blockchain applications for verification and interoperability
• QoS optimization in distributed systems
• Smart mobility and manufacturing systems

Publications: Over 100 refereed papers in top venues like IEEE Transactions on Services Computing and VLDB. Recent work emphasizes fog computing architectures and cross-blockchain solutions.

Awards: Multiple best paper awards (ESOCC 2020, Blockchain-2020), teaching recognition, and prestigious awards for student theses (OCG Incentive Award, Vienna City Awards).

Grants/Advising: Coordinated EU projects SIMPLI-CITY and CREMA, supervised over 30 theses. Active in PhD supervision for Cyber-Physical Production Systems.

Labs/Teams: Director of TU Wien's Distributed Systems Group (DSG), leading Fog Computing and Blockchain research initiatives.