Prof. Dr. Vaibhav Bajpai is professor and head of the data-intensive Internet computing research group at the Hasso Plattner Institute and the University of Potsdam. Previously, he was an independent research group leader at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Hannover. Before that, he was a senior researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich. He received his PhD (2016) and Masters (2012) degrees from Jacobs University Bremen. He is the recipient of the IFIP Networking best paper award (2023), best of CCR award (2019), ACM SIGCOMM best paper award (2018), and IEEE CNOM best dissertation award (2017). He is also the recipient of the Preis für die beste Lehre (2020) awarded by the Department of Computer Science at TUM. His current research focuses on improving Internet operations using data-intensive methods and by building real-world systems and models.
