Adam Dunkels, PhD, is an independent consultant and a pioneer in the Internet of Things area. Many Internet of Things products run software he has developed, including the Contiki operating system, the uIP and lwIP TCP/IP stacks, and the protothreads programming abstraction.
In the past decade, he has built over 20 IoT products with over a million units shipped in total with both multinational industrial companies and startups.
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.
