Univ. Prof. Dr. Schahram Dustdar
Full Professor
Head of the Distributed Systems Group
IEEE Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow
ACM Distinguished Scientist, ACM Distinguished Speaker
Member of the Academia Europaea
dustdar @ dsg.tuwien.ac.at
+43 1 58801 18414
last edited: September 17, 2024
Honors & Awards
- Member of the 2025 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee
- Member of the 2024 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee
- Honorary Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, since June 2023
- Official Nominator for the VinFuture Prize, 2023
- Research.com: Computer Science Leader Award for 2023
- The 9th Edition (2023 Edition) of Research.com ranking of the best scientists in the field of Computer Science: ranked 490 in the world and 5 in Austria
- Member of the 2023 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee
- Member of the 2022 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee
- EAI Fellow, since December 2021
- I2CICC Fellow for Contributions to Cognitive Informatics, Cognitive Computing, and General AI, since December 2021
- Francqui Chair Professor at University of Namur, Belgium, 2021-2022
- IEEE TCI 2021 Distinguished Service Award, 2021
- Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) President, 2021-2023
- Research Excellence Award for delivering a keynote at the 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, CCGrid 2021, General Chair Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
- Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow, since May 2021
- Best Paper Award: Aslanpour M. S., Toosi A. N., Cicconetti C., Javadi B., Sbarski P., Taibi D., Assuncao M., Gill S. S., Gaire R., Dustdar S. (2021). Serverless Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges. 19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021), February 1-5, 2021, (Dunedin, New Zealand) online because of COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- ACM Distinguished Speaker, November 2020 - November 2023
- PeerJ Computer Science - Top 5 most viewed Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems article, as of October 8, 2020: Schleicher J. M., Vögler M., Inzinger C., Dustdar S. (2016). Smart Brix - a continuous evolution framework for container application deployments, 2020
- Rausch T., Raith P., Pillai P., Dustdar S. (2019). Demo: A System for Operating Energy-Aware Cloudlets. IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2019), November 7-9, 2019, Washington DC, USA (Best Demo Award)
- IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, June 2019
- Best Paper Award: Riveni M., Dustdar S. (2018). Trust and Interaction-type considerations in Multi-objective Team Compositions for Human-computation. 17th IEEE International Conference Series on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC 2018), July 16-18, 2018, Berkeley, CA, USA
- IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award, June 2018
- Part of the 21st Annual Best of Computing 2016: Asserting Reliable Convergence for Configuration Management Scripts. Hanappi O., Hummer W., Dustdar S., Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2016): SPLASH 2016 Track, October 30 - November 4, 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Chairman of the Informatics Section of the Academia Europaea, December 9, 2016 - December 31, 2022
- OOPSLA Distinguished Paper Award: Asserting Reliable Convergence for Configuration Management Scripts. Hanappi O., Hummer W., Dustdar S., Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2016): SPLASH 2016 Track, October 30 - November 4, 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Best Paper Award: An Elasticity-aware Governance Platform for Cloud Service Delivery. Mueller C., Truong H.-L., Fernandez P., Copil G., Ruiz-Cortes A., Dustdar S., 13th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2016), June 27 - July 2, 2016, San Francisco, USA
- IEEE Fellow, since January 2016
- Member of the Section Committee of Informatics of the2015
- Certificate for the participation at the SUSTAINABILITY AWARD 2014, project “Pacific Controls Cloud Computing Lab - Cloud Service Computing for the Supervision, Analysis and Controls of the Sustainability of Smart Cities”
- Best Paper Award: ADVISE - A Framework for Evaluating Cloud Service Elasticity Behavior. Copil G., Trihinas D., Truong H.-L., Moldovan D., Pallis G., Dustdar S., Dikaiakos M., ICSOC 2014, November 3-6, 2014, Paris, France
- Certificate of Appreciation in honor and recognition of outstanding contribution as keynote speaker at the 13th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, June 22-27, Benidorm, Spain
- Member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, Informatics Section, 2013
- Recognition of Service for ICSE 2013. For: Outstandig service for the Technical Research Program Committee for ICSE 2013, San Francisco, California, USA, 2013
- Emerald Outstanding Paper Award Winner for the journal paper: Truong H. L., Dustdar S. (2012). A Survey on Cloud-based Sustainability Governance Systems. Published in International Journal of Web Information Systems, 2013
- Recipient of the IBM Faculty Award 2012
- Best Paper Award: A Novel Approach to Modeling Context-Aware and Social Collaboration Processes. Liptchinsky V., Khazankin R., Truong H.L., Dustdar S., 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2012), Poland, 2012
- Best Paper Award: Programming Hybrid Services in the Cloud. Truong H.L, Dustdar S., Bhattacharya K., 10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012), China, 2012
- Best Paper Award - Runner-Up: Who Do You Call? Problem Resolution through Social Compute Units. Sengupta B., Jain A., Bhattacharya K., Truong H.L., Dustdar S.,10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012), China, 2012
- Best Student Paper Award: Adaptive Request Prioritization in Dynamic Service-oriented Systems. R. Khazankin, D. Schall, S. Dustdar, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2011), USA, 2011
- Best Paper Award: Identifying Important Action Primitives for High Level Activity Recognition. A. Manzoor, C. Villalonga, A. Calatroni, H. Truong, D. Roggen, S. Dustdar, G. Tröster, 5th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context 2010, Germany, 2010
- ACM Distinguished Scientist Award, 2009
- Austrian Champions in European Research, FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Austria, 2008
- 2nd Runner-Up Team at the Web Service Challenge 2007 Performance. Juszczyk, L., Michlmayr, A., Platzer, C., Rosenberg, F., Urbanec, A., Dustdar, S., within IEEE CEC-EEE 2007, July 23-26, 2007, Tokyo, Japan
- 3rd place at the Web Service Challenge 2007. Large Scale Web Service Discovery and Composition using High Performance In-Memory Indexing. Juszczyk, L., Michlmayr, A., Platzer, C., Rosenberg, F., Urbanec, A., Dustdar, S., co-located with CEC-EEE 2007, Japan, 2007
- JBOSS Innovation BPM award 2006, USA, 2006
- 2nd place at the Web Service Challenge: Web Service Indexing for Efficient Retrieval and Composition. Aiello, M., Platzer, C., Rosenberg, F., Tran, H., Vasko, M., Dustdar, S., co-located with CEC & EEE 2006, USA, 2006
- 2nd place at the IEEE Services Computing Contest: Applying Distributed Business Rules - The ViDRE Approach. Rosenberg, F., Nagl, C., Dustdar, S., co-located with ICWS 2006 and SCC 2006, USA, 2006
- MERCUR 2002 innovation award of the Austrian Economic Chambers, Vienna, Austria, 2003
- Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Top-Austrian Start-up nomination, Vienna, Austria, 2002
- World Technology Award nomination for best IT-Software of the year, London, 2001
- Erwin Schrödinger post-doctoral research fellowship at London School of Economics, Information Systems Department, Great Britain, 1993