Dr. Martin May

In my new role, I'm leading the research activities at SCHUNK and am also in charge of the digital transformation of the company in its path towards Industry 4.0. We develop new ideas and concepts like autonomous grasping or smart tool holders and are building the first generation of SMART PRODUCTS that process data in the gripper and in our backend infrastructure enabling new services and intelligent features.

I am now running a new lab on Data Processing in Rennes, France. I started with 15 researchers in Paris and then moved the lab to Rennes where the lab grew to more than 50 researchers. The mission of this lab is to develop systems and technologies in the field of data mining and user profiling as well as networking and content security. Multiple very successful projects on data analytics for smart home and elderly care; results have been presented at CES 2015.

As director of strategy, I'm in charge of the research conducted in the media delivery program of Technicolor, including our patenting strategy, the technology transfer and research partnerships. This worldwide program is conducted worldwide by 150 researchers in our labs in the US, Europe and Asia.

Lecturer at ETH Zurich. I was the deputy to the Vice-President of ETHZ at the time and was running the research activities in Prof. Plattner's research group. I started new research topics like network monitoring and analysis, ad-hoc networking, and network security. Together with two colleagues, we developed a new course for network security at ETHZ.

Co-founder Activia Networks. I defined the business plan and the development strategy for the startup. In my role as Chief Network Architect, I setup and run the pre-sales and biz dev activities. Success stories: Signed first large customers in France and the US: deal with Equant and Phillips.

Post-doc in the Internet Measurement Group at Sprint. Design, setup and execution of the measurement infrastructure at Sprintlabs. Testing of new features from partner products and optimisation of QoS settings.

PhD Student

Within the RODEO project, initiated and led the research on simple QoS mechanisms for IP networks. Results of this research co-founded the differentiated services working group at the IETF. These results were published in the most renowned conferences and journals (Sigcomm, Infocom).

Computer Science Operations Research Communication Networks Business-oriented Computer Science