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 (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

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

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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

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.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 The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

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 (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

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

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"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

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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

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

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professor Ruzena Bajcsy.

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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Google scholar profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nahrstedt, Klara Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty 2012 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the IEEE Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Academic journal editors