Adam Dunkels

Adam Dunkels, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Thingsquare and a pioneer in the Internet of Things area. He is the author of the Contiki operating system, the uIP and lwIP TCP/IP stacks, and the protothreads programming abstraction, all of which have been used in a large number of systems and devices for over a decade. In 2009, the MIT Technology Review named him a TR35, top 35 innovator under 35. He has also received the ACM SIGOPS EuroSys Roger Needham award and the ERCIM Cor Baayen award. He is a co-founder of the IPSO Alliance together with a group of major IoT industry vendors. He has authored and co-authored over 80 scientific papers and has served on many top-tier program committees. His book, "Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP - the Next Internet", co-authored with JP Vasseur and with a foreword by Vint Cerf, was published in 2010.