Theo KanterAffiliated researcher

About me

I am a professor of computer science with a focus on sensor-based services at the Department of Computer and Systems Science (DSV) at Stockholm University.

During my long started as a researcher and research leader at various companies in the telecommunication industry before earning a doctorate of technology in computer communication at KTH in 2001. The doctoral dissertation concerned adaptive personal communication, service architectures and protocols. [1] The results contributed greatly to the transformation of mobile telephony towards Internet services in mobile networks. After my PhD I combined a position as senior researcher at Ericsson Research and a guest researcher at Wireless @ KTH. The research focused on the sharing and using user and sensor information for smart wireless Internet services via heterogeneous communication infrastructure, which continued as a professor of distributed systems at Mid Sweden University between 2007 and 2013.

My research is now focused on the Internet of Things and how to create distributed autonomous relationships with people, places and things in extended reality through wireless communication and sensors. The aim is to offer new opportunities for societal challenges in, for example, transport and health, by creating services that are intelligent, react to what we do or what is happening around us and can give us new immersive and interactive experiences.

Key topics such as presence and awareness mandate research in new mechanisms and protocols for efficient and scalable acquisition, dissemination, and discovery of such information along with modelling.