Radu Prodan

Radu Prodan is a professor in distributed systems at the Institute of Software Technology, University of Klagenfurt. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Vienna University of Technology and was Associate Professor until 2018 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research interests include performance, optimization, and resource management tools for distributed and parallel systems. He participated in numerous national and European projects. Presently he coordinates the Horizon 2020 project ARTICONF that researches a decentralized platform and ecosystem for next-generation social media applications. He authored over 200 publications and received two IEEE best paper awards.

One of Dr. Prodan's major projects is ARTICONF (smART socIal media eCOsystem in a blockchaiN Federated environment). ARTICONF aims to create a decentralised and federated social media ecosystem, supported by an underlying blockchain technology seamlessly coupled with optimized trust-based measures in an anonymised environment, which simplifies traceability to identify bad actors and eliminates malicious contents such as fake news. The three-year project, endowed with a budget of approx. 4.2 million Euros, brings together a total of eight participating institutions from Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain, FYRO Macedonia, Portugal, Spain, and Norway. Initial results are expected in 2020.