Ali Nikoukar

Product Owner for IONOS AI Model Hub (GDPR-compliant open-weight LLMs, embeddings, RAG) and IONOS project lead in EU AI programmes. • Led NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU provisioning for the DeployAI AI Builder (Digital Europe, €28M), delivered on schedule. • Coordinated AC3 (Horizon Europe, €6M, 15 partners) and led a team of up to 5 on a TELLUS (Gaia-X) digital twin. • Co-wrote 4 funding proposals winning €3M+. • Represented IONOS at Hannover Messe 2024–2026 and in consortium steering boards.

Doctoral research on low-power wireless communication and IoT systems in the ComSys group of Prof. Mesut Güneş at OVGU: empirical modelling of Bluetooth Low Energy channels and radio irregularity, and machine-learning-based prediction of Wi-Fi interference for more reliable, energy-efficient IoT networks. • Published in IEEE Access, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE UEMCON, DCOSS-IoT and Med-Hoc-Net.

• Served as Technical Project Manager and Work Package Lead for DORIoT, a BMBF-funded joint research project (2019–2022) focused on dynamic runtime environments for organically (dis-)aggregating IoT processes. • Coordinated work-package planning, execution, partner alignment, milestones, and technical delivery. • Helped connect research objectives with practical implementation across distributed IoT environments. • Project scope included decentralized SmartX architectures, Organic Computing, cross-protocol

In 2016 I continued my Ph.D. in Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg because my professor changed the university.

Thesis: Applications of Cognitive Radio in Real-Time and Low-Power Internet of Things. Part-time since 2019. DAAD doctoral scholarship (four years).

Thesis: fibre-optic signal transmission using microring resonators.

Thesis: development of advanced chess search engines.