Prof. Dr. Sebastian Rieger is a Professor of Multimedia Communication Networks at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany, where he leads the MMNet research group in the Department of Applied Computer Science. He has held this professorship since 2012, following research and management positions at the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung (GWDG) in Göttingen, where he worked on identity management, network and system management, and streaming media in wireless networks. He received his doctorate from the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Göttingen in 2007, with a dissertation on unified authentication in heterogeneous IT infrastructures for secure eScience environments. His current research interests include network digital twins, resilient inter-domain routing, green intent-based service-aware routing, network services for local AI, and AI-augmented network automation and management. He teaches courses on computer networks and services as well as cloud computing at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, and his group’s work is regularly presented at international networking conferences. He is a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TNET). Selected Recent Work:

• Papers on Network Digital Twins, resilient BGP, and intent-based routing at IEEE/IFIP CNSM, IEEE/IFIP NOMS, IRTF NMRG and IFIP Networking
• Public open source projects: DigSiNet / DigSiViz (network digital twin verification, visualization, and what-if analysis), learn-sdn-hub (virtual lab for programmable network education and experimentation)