Appendix 2: CV & publications - KTH

Curriculum Vitae of Sonja Buchegger
Doctoral degree
2004 EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Ph.D. in Communication Systems (Docteur ès sciences
techniques). Thesis title: Coping with Misbehavior in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. Adviser:
Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec,
The main papers of this work garnered several hundred citations, one over 1400.
Postdoctoral work
2004–2006 University of California at Berkeley, USA, Post-doctoral Scholar at the School of
Information.
Current position
2010 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science and
Communication, Associate Professor. On leave for VR forskarassistent position
since April 1, 2010, 80% research time during the leave. Main research: Privacypreserving
distributed communications and social networks.
Previous positions
2007–2009 Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany, Senior Research Scientist.
• Vehicular Networks. Evaluating placement of road-side units.
• ISP-P2P Cooperation and Trust. Enabling ISP-assisted trust ratings to avoid
pollution and poisoning in peer-to-peer networks.
• Sensor Network Economics. Applying economics methods to power problems
in wireless sensor networks.
2004–2006 University of California at Berkeley, USA, Post-doctoral Scholar at the School of
Information.
• P2Pecon Project. Location-aware incentives for cooperation in mobile ad-hoc
and peer-to-peer networks.
• 100x100 Networks Project. Economics of placement of base stations of
municipal WI-FI networks, ownership models of wireless networks
2003–2004 EPFL, Switzerland, Research and Teaching Assistant at the Lab of Computer
Communications and Applications (LCA).
• Mobile Information and Communication Systems Project. Developed a
protocol to detect and isolate misbehaving nodes in mobile ad-hoc networks,
called CONFIDANT (Cooperation Of Nodes, Fairness In Mobile Ad-hoc
NeTworks) by using Bayesian estimation for a trust and reputation sytem.