TU Wien Informatics

Univ. Prof. Dr. Schahram Dustdar

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

+43 1 58801 18414

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last edited: July 28, 2026

Current PhD Students (supervisor)

  1. Syed Izhan Khilji
  2. Daniel Kleebinder
  3. Cveta Capova
  4. Zihang Wang
  5. Anna Lackinger

Finished PhD Students (supervisor)

  1. Alireza Furutanpey: Efficient Transmission and Recovery of Salient Information
  2. Philipp Raith: Self-Adaptive Serverless Edge Computing for Edge Intelligence
  3. Thomas Werner Pusztai: Ensuring Service Level Objective Adherence in the Edge-Cloud Continuum
  4. Fengyang Guo: Modeling Improvement and Application of DAG-based Blockchain Networks, Huawei, Munich, Germany
  5. Boris Sedlak: Autonomous Orchestration of Computing Continuum Systems through Active Inference
  6. Clemens Lachner: Urban Sensing Environments: Exploiting the Adaptation Space for Data Protection
  7. Ilir Murturi: Resource Management and Elasticity Control in Edge Networks
  8. Cosmin Avasalcai: Quality of Service aware Resource Management for Edge Systems
  9. Thomas Rausch: A Distributed Compute Fabric for Edge Intelligence
  10. Mirela Riveni: Provisioning and Management Techniques for Elastic Collectives in Human Computation
  11. Christoph Hochreiner: An Elastic Data Stream Processing Ecosystem for Distributed Environments, honored by the city of Vienna with an award for outstanding phd theses in the year 2018 at the TU Wien
  12. Johannes M. Schleicher: Engineering and Management of heterogenous Smart City Application Ecosystems, Award of Excellence - Austrian State Award for the best phd theses
  13. Vitaliy Liptchinsky: Collaboration-assisted computation, Microsoft, USA
  14. Muhammad Zuhri Catur Candra: Hybrid Human-Machine Computing Systems - Provisioning: Monitoring, and Reliability Analysis
  15. Stefan Nastic: Programming, Provisioning and Governing IoT Cloud Systems
  16. Michael Vögler: Efficient IoT Application Delivery and Management in Smart City Environments
  17. Ognjen Scekic: Automated Incentive Management for Social Computing - Foundations, Models, Tools and Algorithms
  18. Georgiana Copil: Cloud Services Elasticity Control: from requirements specification to operations management
  19. Daniel Moldovan: On Monitoring and Analyzing Elastic Cloud Systems
  20. Soheil Qanbari: Edge-to-Business Value Chain Delivery via Elastic Telemetry of Cyber-Physical Systems
  21. Philipp Hönisch: Elastic Business Process Management in the Cloud, Award of the City of Vienna for excellent PhD Theses at the TU Wien 2016
  22. Rostyslav Zabolotnyi: Transparent Application Adjustment for Efficient and Elastic Execution in the Cloud
  23. Christian Inzinger: Adaptation and Evolution of Service-Based Applications in Cloud Computing Environments
  24. Waldemar Hummer: Reliable Provisioning of Data-Centric and Event-Based Applications in the Cloud
  25. Florian Skopik: Discovery and Formation Models for Socio-computational Crowd Environments
  26. Ivan Breskovic: Market-oriented Service Allocation in Utility and Cloud Computing
  27. Christine Mayr: Managing and Modeling Persistent Data Access in Process-Driven SOAs
  28. Oliver Moser: Holistic Monitoring and Domain Specific Adaptation in Composite Services, Mobilkom
  29. Roman Khazankin: Provision of Service Level Agreements in Human-Enhanced Service-Oriented Computing Environments, Honored by the city of Vienna with an award for outstanding phd theses in the year 2018 at the TU Wien.
  30. Michael Maurer: Governance of Cloud Computing Infrastructures using Knowledge Management
  31. Vincent Emeakaroha: Managing Cloud Service Provisioning and SLA Enforcement via Holistic Monitoring Techniques
  32. Harald Psaier: Behavior Management and Self-adaptation in Mixed Systems - Adaptation Models, Strategies, and Management
  33. Ahmad Kamran Malik: Information Sharing and Access Control in Collaborative Working Environments - Models, Methods and Algorithms
  34. Philipp Leitner: On Preventing Violations of Service Level Agreements in Composed Services Using Self-Adaptation
  35. Lukasz Juszczyk: Techniques for Automated Generation of Testbed Infrastructures for SOA
  36. Günther Starnberger: Trading Dependability, Performance, and Security in First-Price Sealed-Bid Online Auctions with Temporal Decoupling
  37. Ernst Oberortner: Monitoring Quality of Service in Service-oriented Systems: Architectural Design and Stakeholder Support
  38. Ta’id Holmes: Supporting Model-Based Reflection, Monitoring, and Evolution in Service-Oriented Architectures through Model-Aware Systems
  39. Atif Manzoor: Quality of Context in Pervasive Systems: Models, Techniques, and Applications
  40. Anton Michlmayr: Event Processing in QoS-Aware Service Runtime Environments
  41. Martin Vasko: Community-Driven Service Orchestration Modeling
  42. Florian Skopik: Dynamic Trust in Mixed Service-oriented Systems - Models, Algorithms, and Applications
  43. Daniel Schall: Human Interactions in Mixed Systems - Architecture, Protocols, and Algorithms
  44. Florian Rosenberg: QoS-Aware Composition of Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems
  45. Christoph Dorn: Adaptation Techniques in large-scale Service-oriented Systems: Models, Metrics, and Algorithms
  46. Huy Tran: View-Based and Model-Driven Approach for Process-Driven, Service-Oriented Architectures
  47. Christian Platzer: Vector Space-driven Service Discovery

Current PhD/Finished PhD Students (examiner)

  1. Negin Akbari: Intent-driven Scheduling and Resource Management Approaches for the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum, Monash University, Australia
  2. Ruslan Bondaruc: An Assurance-Driven Service Composition for Data-Intensive Pipelines in Cloud-Edge Continuum, University of Milan, Italy
  3. Visham Hurbungs: Enhance Workflow Mechanisms for Edge Analytics, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
  4. Miles Stötzner: A Method to Manage the Deployment Variability of Applications Across Deployment Technologies, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  5. Flavia Monti: Achieving Resiliency in Smart Manufacturing through Artificial Intelligence, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  6. Nikolai Manuel Merkel: Performance Optimization in Graph Processing Systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  7. Marc Vila Gómez: IoT Semantic-Based Monitoring of Infrastructures using a Microservices Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
  8. Wencan Mao: Capacity Planning for Vehicular Fog Computing, Aalto University, Finnland
  9. Adelina Ciurumelea: Generating Completion Suggestions for Source Code Comments using Neural Language Models, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  10. Sebastian Werner: Serverless Data Processing: Application Platform (Co-) Design, TU Berlin, Germany
  11. Juan Luis Herrera González: DADO: Framework for the deployment of distributed IoT applications in edge-fog-cloud environments, University of Extremadura, Spain
  12. Ivan Čilić: Adaptive IoT Service Orchestration and Data-Driven Routing for Edge Computing Environment, Unversity of Zagreb, Croatia
  13. Karoline Wild: Eine Methode zum Verteilen, Adaptieren und Deployment partnerübergreifender Anwendungen, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  14. Jürgen Pannosch: Skill-based Engineering in Home Automation, TU Wien, Austria
  15. Mark A.M. Kramer: Technology Experience of Education: Examining the Acceptance and Adoption of ICTs for use within Austrian Higher Education, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
  16. Lauri Lovén: Spatial Dependency in Edge-native Artificial Intelligence, University of Oulu, Finland
  17. Praveen Kumar Donta: Machine learning-based algorithms for wireless sensor networks, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), India
  18. Amirali Amiri: Automatic Management of Cloud Resources using Domain Knowledge of Service- and Cloud-Based Applications, University of Vienna, Austria
  19. Amine El Malki: Towards a Dynamically Adaptive Microservices and Cloud-Based API Design, University of Vienna, Austria
  20. Biswa Mohan Sahoo: Soft Computing-based Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India
  21. Victor Casamayor-Pujol: Map-less inventory and location for an RFID-based robot, Pompeu Fabra University, UPF, Spain
  22. Stefano Forti: Supporting the Deployment and Management of Fog Applications, University of Pisa, Italy
  23. Antonio Galletta: Innovative Cloud and Edge based systems for smart life, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
  24. Salim Chujfi-La-Roche: Human Cognition and Natural Language Processing in the Digitally Mediated Environment, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany
  25. Salvatore Augusto Maisto: From Monolith to Cloudarchitecture using semi-automated microservices modernization, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
  26. Thiago Garrett: Effective Techniques for Detecting and Locating Traffic Differentiation in the Internet, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
  27. Edith Zavala: Towards Adaptive Monitoring for Self-Adaptive Systems, UPC, Spain
  28. Clay Palmeira da Silva: The CUBE: A User-Centric system-model architecture for Web service migration through multiple devices, University of Tours, France
  29. Irene Bedilia Estrada Torres: Enhancing the Modelling Perspective of Process Performance Management, University of Seville, Spain
  30. Stefan Kolb: On the Portability of Applications in Platform as a Service, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
  31. Jan Meznaric: Decentralized method for gradual and resilient dynamic updates in microservice architecture, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  32. Celal Timurhan Sungur: Resource-driven Processes: Concept, Use, and Incorporation, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  33. Daniel Puschmann: Extracting Information from heterogeneous Internet of Things Data Streams, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
  34. Francisco Jose Ibarra Caceres: The Connective Power of Reminiscence: Designing a Reminiscence-based Tool to Increase Social Interactions in Residential Care, University of Trento, Italy
  35. Neda Ghiassi: An Hourglass Approach to Urban Energy Computing, TU Wien, Austria
  36. Ronny Hans: QOS-aware Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning in Heterogeneous Environments, TU Darmstadt
  37. Frank Blaauw: The non-existent average individual: Automating personalization in psychopathology research by leveraging the capabilities of data science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  38. Giovanni Quattrocchi: Fast and Fine-grained Elastic Resource Provisioning for Modern Software Systems, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  39. Martina De Sanctis: Dynamic Adaptation of Service-Based Systems: a Design for Adaptation Framework, FBK-DAS Trento, Italy
  40. Alireza Khoshkbarforoushha: Workload Modelling and Elasticity Management of Data-Intensive Systems, Australian National University, Australia
  41. Saman Kamran: Dynamic Labeling and Matching of the Shared Contents and Users’ Interests, University of Italian Switzerland (University of Lugano), Switzerland
  42. Jacopo Soldani: Modelling, analysing, and reusing composite cloud applications, University of Pisa, Italy
  43. Fahimeh Farahnakian: Energy and Performance Management of Virtual Machines: Provisioning, Placement, and Consolidation, University of Turku, Finland
  44. Ali Shemshadi: Correlation Management and Search for the Internet of Things, The University of Adelaide, Australia
  45. Ali Gholami: Security and Privacy of Sensitive Data in Cloud Computing, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
  46. Uwe Breitenbücher: Eine musterbasierte Methode zur Automatisierung des Anwendungsmanagements, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  47. Stefan Glawischnig: An urban monitoring system for large-scale building energy assessment, TU Wien, Austria
  48. Grace A. Lewis: Software Architecture Strategies for Cyber-Foraging Systems, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  49. Rafael Angarita: An Approach for Self-healing Transactional Composite Services, Paris Dauphine University, France
  50. Jesús García Galán: Automating the Support of Highly-configurable Services, University of Seville, Spain
  51. Tuan Anh Nguyen: Energy Adaptive Buildings: From Sensor Data to Being Aware of Users, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  52. Christoph Fehling: Cloud Computing Patterns Identification, Design, and Application, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  53. Aitor Murguzur Ibarguren: Dynamic Variability Support in Context-aware Workflow-based Systems, Mondragon University, Spain
  54. Tobias Binz: Crawling von Enterprise Topologien zur automatisierten Migration von Anwendungen - eine Cloud-Perspektive, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  55. Mahboobeh Moghaddam: Combinatorial Auction-based Mechanisms for Composite Web Service Selection, University of Sydney, Australia
  56. Jörg Lenhard:Portability of Process-Aware and Service-Oriented Software: Evidence and Metrics, University of Bamberg, Germany
  57. David Schumm: Sichten auf Geschäftsprozesse mit besonderer Betrachtung von Compliance, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  58. Chrysostomos Zeginis: Cross-layer Monitoring and Adaptation of Multi-Cloud Service-based Applications, University of Crete, Greece
  59. Alexander Nowak: Green Business Process Management: Methode und Realisierung, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  60. Karl Heinz Wolf: Early Warning based on the Next Generation Emergency Calling Framework, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  61. Stefano Tranquillini: Models and systems for managing sensor and crowd-oriented processes, University of Trento, Italy
  62. Frieder Ganz: Intelligent Communication and Information Processing for Cyber-Physical Data, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
  63. Yan Shvartzshnaider: Redefining the Internet Service Abstraction - From Data Pipes to Information Spaces, University of Sydney, Australia
  64. Alessandro Russo: Models and Architectures for Dynamic Processes: from Activity-centric to Data-centric Operational Support, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  65. Hristo Novatchkov: A Server-Based Mobile Coaching System Integrating Ubiquitous Data Acquisition Technologies and Intelligent Real-Time Analysis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  66. Ehsan Ullah Warriach: An Embedded Middleware Platform for a Smart Home, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  67. Alireza Zarghami: Architectural support for dynamic homecare service provisioning: decision as a service, University of Twente, the Netherlands
  68. Nelly Angelina Schuster: Coordinating Service Compositions - Model and Infrastructure for Collaborative Creation of Electronic Documents, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
  69. Ulrich Lampe: Monetary Efficiency in Infrastructure Clouds â Solution Strategies for Workload Distribution and Auction-based Capacity Allocation, TU Darmstadt, Germany
  70. Dragan Ivanovic: Analysis of Service-Oriented Computing Systems, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  71. Rolf Kluge: Preselection of Electronic Services by Given Business Service Based on Measuring Semantic Heterogeneity within the Application Area of Logistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and University of Leipzig, Germany
  72. Ngoc Chan Nguyen: Service Recommendation for Individual and Process Use, Telecom SudParis, France
  73. Giacomo Ghezzi: SOFAS, Software Analysis as a Service - Improving and Rethinking Software Evolution Analysis, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  74. Domenico Bianculli: Open-world Sofware: Specification, Verification, and Beyond, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland
  75. Robert Zach: An Open-Source, Vendor and Technology Independent Toolkit for Building Monitoring, Data Preprocessing, and Visualization, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  76. Faramarz Safi: Adaptable and Decentralized Orchestration Engine for Service Oriented Architecture, University Putra Malaysia
  77. Malinda Kapuruge: Orchestration as Organisation: Using an organisational paradigm to achieve adaptable business process modelling and enactment in service compositions, Swinburne, Australia
  78. Vikas Agarwal: Supporting Non-Functional Properties in Web Service Compositions, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  79. Nico Kerschbaumer: View-Based Interorganizational Workflows, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
  80. Seyed Hossein Siadat: A Soft Approach for QoS-Aware Service Adaptation, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  81. Fabiano Dalpiaz: Exploiting Contextual and Social Variability for Software Adaptation, University of Trento, Italy
  82. Eduardo Manuel Goncalves da Silva: User-centric Service Composition - Towards Personalized Service Composition and Delivery, University of Twente, the Netherlands
  83. Donato Barbagallo: A data quality based methodology to improve sentiment analysis, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  84. Lukas Wallentin: Cashflow: A virtual currency system for mobile ad hoc networks, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Telecommunications, Austria
  85. Simon Scerri: Supporting E-mail-based Collaborative Work across the Social Semantic Desktop, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
  86. Martin Murth: Efficient Coordination with Semantic Shared Data Spaces, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Computer Languages, Austria
  87. Dhaminda Buddhika Abeywickrama: Pervasive Services Engineering for SOAs, Monash University, Australia
  88. Ralph Mietzner: A Method and Implementation to Define and Provision Variable Composite Applications, and its usage in Cloud Computing, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  89. Thorsten Scheibler: Ausführbare Integrationsmuster, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  90. Marco Comerio: Web Service Contracts: Specification, Selection and Composition, University Milano-Bicocca
  91. Armin Haller: An ontological framework for Business Process Integration in Virtual Organizations, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
  92. Javed Ferzund: An Emperical Investigation into Changes and Bugs by Mining Software Development Histories, TU Graz, Austria
  93. Monika Kacmarek: Selection of Semantic Web services for Business Processes, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
  94. Willibald Karl Krenn:Self Reasoning in Resource Constrained, Autonomous Systems, TU Graz, Austria
  95. Peter Massuthe: HU Berlin and TU Eindhoven
  96. Ksenia Wahler: A Framework for Integrated Process and Object Life Cycle Modleing, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  97. Kenneth Wang: University of New South Wales, Australia
  98. Julien Ponge: University of New South Wales, Australia and Blaise Pascal University, France
  99. Farshad Moradi: KTH Sweden
  100. Hamid Motahari: University of New South Wales, Australia
  101. Piyanath Mangkorntong: University of New South Wales, Australia
  102. Rainer Huber: A Novel Analytical Modeling Framework and its Application to Transport Layer Performance Evaluation, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  103. Joachim Fabiani: Generic Access Network Modeling for Next generation Network Applications
  104. G. R. Gangadharan: University of Trento, Italy
  105. Vahid Hashemian: University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  106. Rudolf Pailer: Service Platforms for Next Generation Telecommincation Networks, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  107. Klaus Umschaden: Signaling Security in Next Generation Networks, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  108. Rainer Schmidt: An Architecture and Programming Model for Component-based Grid Applications, University of Vienna, Austria
  109. Sam Guinea: Service Monitoring, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  110. Michael Sheng: University of New South Wales, Australia
  111. Alexander Lazovik: Interacting with Service Compositions, University of Trento, Italy
  112. Thomas Költringer: Design und Evaluierung von Texteingabesystemen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  113. Klaus Brunner: Dynamic building model service, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  114. Ivar Jørstad: Future mobile service architectures - Service personalisation and continuity in future mobile services. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Co-Supervisor
  115. Hong-Linh Truong: Novel Techniques and Methods for Performance Measurement, Analysis and Monitoring of Cluster and Grid Applications
  116. Alexandru Jugravu: A High-level Programming Paradigm for Java-based Parallel and Distributed Applications
  117. Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui: Supporting Context-Aware Services in Pervasive Environments, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  118. Konrad Pfadenhauer: Model Driven Service Architecture for the Shop Floor, Vienna University of Technology
  119. Hilmar Schuschel: University of Potsdam, Germany

Finished MSc Thesis Students

Link to all supervised MSC Thesis at the Vienna University of Technology Library Online Catalogue