Klara Nahrstedt () is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Computer Science at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

, and directs the Coordinated Science Laboratory there. Her research concerns

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradition ...

quality of service Quality of service (QoS) is the description or measurement of the overall performance of a service, such as a telephony or computer network, or a cloud computing service, particularly the performance seen by the users of the network. To quantitat ...

, and

middleware Middleware is a type of computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue". Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement co ...

.Faculty profile
, UIUC Multimedia Operating System and Networking Group, retrieved 2015-06-14. Nahrstedt earned a diploma in mathematics from the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

in 1984, and a master's degree in

numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...

from Humboldt University in 1985. She earned a Ph.D. from

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

in 1995, under the supervision of Jonathan M. Smith. She was editor-in-chief of the journal ''Multimedia Systems'' (ACM and Springer) from 2000 to 2006, and chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia from 2007 to 2013. In 2012 Nahrstedt was elected as a

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of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

"for contributions to quality-of-service management for distributed multimedia systems."Interview with ACM Fellow and SIGMM Chair Prof Klara Nahrstedt
ACM SIGMM, retrieved 2015-06-14. She is a Fellow of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

for contributions to end-to-end quality of service management of multimedia systems, and a winner of a 2012 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to end-to-end quality of service and resource management in wired and wireless networks".2012 Technical Achievement Award Recipient
retrieved 2015-06-14. In 2013 she became a member of the

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

. In 2022, she was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. Nahrstedt is the daughter of

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

professor

Ruzena Bajcsy Ruzena Bajcsy (born 1933 in Bratislava, now Slovakia) is an American engineer and computer scientist who specializes in robotics. She is professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where sh ...

Selected publications

;Books *''Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications'' (with Ralf Steinmetz, Prentice-Hall, 1995). *''Multimedia Fundamentals'', Vol. I: Media Coding and Content Processing (with Ralf Steinmetz, Prentice-Hall, 2002) *''Multimedia Systems'' (with Ralf Steinmetz, Springer-Verlag, 2004) *''Multimedia Applications'' (with Ralf Steinmetz, Springer-Verlag, 2004) *''Quality of Service in Wireless Networks over Unlicensed Spectrum'' (Morgan & Claypool, Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, 2012) ;Papers *. *. *.

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