About
Short biography
Kim Hammar is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London. His main research interest is automatic control and management of networked systems. Hammar received his Ph.D. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Extended biography
Kim Hammar is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London. His main research interest is automatic control and management of networked systems. Previously he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne, a visiting scholar at Arizona State University, a visiting professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and a Ph.D. student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Before starting his Ph.D., Hammar worked as a Research Engineer at Hopsworks, as a Data Analytics Engineer at Allstate in Chicago, as a network operator at Tele2, as a research intern at Ericsson, and as a research engineer at MIC Nordic. He graduated with an M.Sc. degree in distributed systems from KTH in 2018 with a GPA of 5/5.
Hammar was the recipient of the best demonstration paper award at IEEE NOMS in 2022, the VR International Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2025, and the IEEE control systems society rising star in cyberphysical systems security in 2026. Hammar is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and a TPC member of ACSAC, GameSec, GraSec, and AAAI.
Research visits
[2026] Visiting researcher, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. Host: Prof. Emil Lupu.
[2026] Visiting researcher, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France. Host: Prof. Bénédicte Le Grand.
[2025] Visiting researcher, City University of Hong Kong, China. Host: Prof. Tao Li.
[2025] Visiting researcher, University of Melbourne, Australia. Host: Prof. Tansu Alpcan.
[2025] Visiting researcher, Arizona State University, USA. Hosts: Prof. Dimitri Bertsekas and Dr. Yuchao Li.
[2023] Visiting researcher, New York University, USA. Host: Prof. Quanyan Zhu.
[2023] Visiting researcher, Princeton University, USA. Host: Prof. Maria Apostolaki.
[2023] Visiting researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Hosts: Prof. Una-May O’Reilly and Dr. Erik Hemberg.
[2023] Visiting researcher, Siemens Research, USA. Hosts: Dr. Enrico Lovat and Dr. Neil Dhir.
Contact him at kimham[at]kth.se for a more detailed CV.
