Professor Waltenegus Dargie is the Head of Energy Lab at the TU Dresden (Germany), Faculty of Compute Science. He obtained a PhD in Computer Engineering from the TU Dresden (2006); a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the TU Kaiserslautern (2002); and a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Technology from Nazareth Technical College (1997). He has also been awarded a Habilitation from the TU Dresden in 2010. This is the highest academic qualification one can achieve in Germany and it is a prerequisite in many European universities for conducting independent teaching and research.
Professor Dargie is a recipient of five research projects from the German Research foundation and has supervised seven PhD candidates. Two of them were women and two of them defended their dissertation with distinction (summa cum laude).
He has published two text books and more than 20 scientific articles in highly reputed IEEE and ACM journals. He is also a member of the editorial committee for the Journal of Computer Networks (Elsevier) and several technical program committees.
His research activities are focused on (1) developing energy-efficient and smart computing and sensing devices for the Internet of Things, (2) developing energy-efficient protocols for wireless sensor networks, and (2) using unsupervised learning to extract meaning from sensed data.
Professor Dargie has published four novels (ERMIAS, PEREGRINATION, PRINCESS MERCABEL, and THE EUNUCH AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER) and one philosophical book: THE REASON FOR LIFE.