Dominic Schupke

Dominic A. Schupke is a research leader in reliable communication networks, currently focusing on Wireless Communications at Airbus, Munich, Germany. He is also a lecturer in Network Planning at Technical University of Munich (TUM). Prior to Airbus, he was with Nokia, Siemens, and TUM. He studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen, Imperial College London, and TUM, where he received a Dipl.-Ing. degree, an International Diploma, and a Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude), respectively.

Dominic authored or co-authored more than 150 journal and conference papers (Google Scholar h-index 32), as well as several patents. Three contributions received a best paper award. His research interests include network architectures and protocols, routing, recovery methods, availability analysis, critical infrastructures, security, virtualization, network optimization, and network planning. His current research focus is on aerospace networks.

Since August 2010 Dominic has been Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (Impact Factor 33.84 in 2021). He was also Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking from March 2009 to August 2013. He was co-chair of the Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) in 2017 and of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) in 2013. He is currently the chair of the DRCN steering group. He served as TPC chair and TPC member for numerous conferences as well as Advisory Board member of European research projects.

Dominic is Senior Member of IEEE, and member of Comsoc, VDE/ITG, and VDI. He was appointed to an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for 2013 and 2014. Dominic received the Outstanding Service Award of IEEE Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) for Key Efforts in Industry Outreach in 2017.