Current positions

• Scientific Advisor, Peerialism AB, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007 to present.

• Professor in Computer Systems, Parallel and Distributed System, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, 1999 to present

• Chief Scientist of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS).

Previous employments

Research Director, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, July 1993-Frebruary 1999.

Awards

Chester Carlsons Research Prize in Information Sciences 1991 (Chester Carlsons Forskningspris, 1991 för Informationsvetenskap), awarded by the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Summary of recent research activities

Prof. Seif is currently involved in research in the areas of self-managing overlay networks, and P2P computing. These activities are performed in the following EU projects:

• FET project Pepito, scientific coordinator. A middleware for Distributed Hash Table overlay networks, called Distributed K-ary System (DKS).

• FET project Evergrow project, scientific coordinator. Testing and developing large-scale distributed systems where service-level behavior, network topologies, and dynamic network behavior can be accurately modeled.

• IST project Selfman, partner. Studies of self-managing of large-scale distributed systems. These systems will reconfigure themselves to handle changes in their environment or requirements without human intervention but according to high-level management policies.

• IST project Grid4All, partner. Studies of how to design flexible and dynamic light weight grids as a ubiquitous utility, whereby domestic users, small organizations and enterprises may aggregate resources on the Internet without having to individually invest and manage computing and IT resources.

Startups

Starts-ups in the area of ICT originating from Prof. Seif's research group:

• Tacton, tools for product configurations based on constrain programming.

• Virtutech, tools for simulation and software development environment for parallel computer systems.

• Jaczone, a knowledge-based tool for supporting software development in UML and the Unified Process (UP).

Professional memberships

• Conference Chairman, DISC 2006, International Symposium on Distributed Computing, Stockholm, 2006.

• Member of the advisory board of Jaczone AB.

• Chairman of Europar 2004 chapter on Peer-to-Peer computing.

• Member of the editorial committee of IEEE Internet Computing, 2000–2004.

• Member of the editorial committee of journal of logic programming theory and practice, 2002–2005.

• Member of the EU expert group on Next Generation Grid Systems, 2003.

• Representative of Sweden in CoreGrid, the EU network of excellence on GRID computing, 2004–2008.

• Member of the steering board of the Swedish National Infra-structure for Computing SNIC, 2000–2003.

Selected relevant publications

1. Sameh El-Ansary, Supriya Krishnamurthy, Erik Aurell, Seif Haridi, "An Analytical Study of a Structured Overlay in the presence of Dynamic Membership", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, accepted to appear 2008.

2. Ali Ghodsi, Seif Haridi, "Exploiting the Synergy between Gossiping and Structured Overlays", ACM Operating Systems Review, 2007.

3. Tallat Shafaat, Ali Ghodsi, Seif Haridi, "Handling Network Partitions and Mergers in Structured Overlay Networks", IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2007.

4. Jim Dowling, Jan Sacha, Seif Haridi, "Improving ICE Service Selection in a P2P System Using the Gradient Topology", First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, 2007.

5. Karl Aberer, Luc Onana Alima, Ali Ghodsi, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Seif Haridi, Manfred Hauswirth, "The Essence of P2P: A Reference Architecture for Overlay Networks", IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2005.

6. Supriya Krishnamurthy, Sameh El-Ansary, Erik Aurell, Seif Haridi, "A Statistical Theory of Chord Under Churn", pp. 93-103, IPTPS, 2005.

7. Ali Ghodsi, Luc Onana, Seif Haridi, "Increasing Robustness and Minimizing Bandwidth Consumption in Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems", HICSS (Received best paper award), 2005.
   

8. Luc Onana, Ali Ghodsi and Seif Haridi, "A framework for structured Peer-to-Peer overlay networks", Global Computing, Springer Verlag, 2004.

9. Sameh El-Ansary, Erik Aurell and Seif Haridi, "Experience with a physics-style approach for the study of self properties in structured overlay networks", SELF-STAR International Workshop on Self-Properties in Complex information Systems.

10. Seif Haridi, Luc Onana and Ali Ghodsi, "SELF Properties in Distributed K-ary Structured Overlay Networks", SELF-STAR International Workshop on Self-Properties in Complex information Systems.

11. Ali Ghodsi , Luc Onana and Seif Haridi, "Multicast in DKS(N; k; f) Overlay Networks", 7th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, 2003.

12. Luc Onana, Ali Ghodsi and Seif Haridi, "Self-Correcting Broadcast in Distributed Hash Tables", International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, 2003.

13. Luc Onana, Sameh El-Ansary and Seif Haridi, "DKS(N, k, f): A Family of Low Communication, Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Infrastructures for P2P Applications", CCGRID, 2003.

14. Ali Ghodsi, Luc Onana Alima, Sameh El-Ansary, Per Brand and Seif Haridi, "Self-Correcting Broadcast in Distributed Hash Tables", in The 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2003), Marina del Rey, CA, USA, November 2003.