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Odej Kao
Odej Kao (*July 17, 1971 in Skopje, SR Macedonia) is a German computer scientist. Since 2006, he has been a professor of Distributed Systems and Operating Systems at the Technical University of Berlin, and since 2017, he has been the board spokesman of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) in Berlin and chairman of the board of DFN.

Career


After graduating from the Rade Korcagin High School in Skopje, Odej Kao came to Germany. He completed a six-month German course and then studied computer science at the Clausthal University of Technology, October 1991 to September 1995. In the year of his graduation, he won the DAAD award for extraordinary study achievement. He received a PhD degree in computer science December 1997 with dissertation on “New Approaches to Suppress Impulse Noise in Gray Scale and Color Images” from the Clausthal University of Technology. Subsequently, Odej Kao worked as a research assistant from 1998 to 2002 and obtained a habilitation degree in computer science. The habilitation thesis is titled “Dynamic Retrieval of Multimedia Data on Parallel Architectures”.

In spring 2002, Odej Kao was appointed associated professor for operating and distributed systems at faculty for computer science at the University of Paderborn. Moreover, he was also promoted to director of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²) in 2003. In August 2006, he moved to the Technical University of Berlin as full professor and chair of the research group on distributed and operating systems. He was also appointed Director of the IT Service Center tubIT. From 2013 to 2015 he was vice dean, then dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science until 2017. He completed research stays at the University of California at Irvine. Since 2016, Odej Kao also serves as a Chief Information Officer at TU Berlin.

Odej Kao is one of the principal investigators at the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC) and in the DFG research group Stratosphere[4]. The Stratosphere project developed the foundations for a Big Data platform that was later added to the Apache collection under the name Apache Flink. In the SFB 1404 FONDA (Foundations of Workflows for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis) he is investigating the foundations for creating and executing scientific workflows At the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) he is working on architectures for Big Data processing.

Since 2017, Odej Kao serves as spokesperson of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). This is an interdisciplinary joint project of Berlin universities (TU Berlin, Charité, Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University, and University of Arts) as part of the Digital Agenda of the State of Berlin.[7] As a public-private partnership, it is funded partly by industrial companies, partly by the participating universities, and partly by the State of Berlin through the Einstein Foundation Berlin.[8][9][10] In addition, Odej Kao is one of the three directors of the graduate school HEIBRIDS (Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science).

Research and teaching
The research focus is on discovery, integration, and management of resources in complex, heterogeneous, and dynamic systems that can change their structure and configuration depending on the problem. This includes cloud computing, resource management, Big Data, anomaly detection, and the design and operation of complex infrastructures. Recent publications revolve around the topic of AIOPS (AI-enabled IT Operations) and there in particular anomaly detection and elimination using metric data, log entries and tracing.

Other functions
Odej Kao was a member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) committee for information management (2011 to 2014) and for IT Infrastructure (2013 to 2018) [12], member of the Board of Directors of the German Research Network (DFN) since 2018. In December 2020, he was elected as a member of the Digital Council of the State of Berlin and as Chairman of the Board of DFN.

Literature review
Odej Kao has (co-)authored from 1997 to 2020 over 250 journal and conference papers  books and book chapters.

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