International student Hadi Ashgari wins IBM Thesis Prize

MoT Master’s student Hadi Asghari has recently won the prestigious IBM thesis prize with his thesis ‘Botnet Mitigation and the Role of ISPs’, for which he was awarded a mark of 9.5. The prize, which amounts to 1,500 euro, was presented during the graduation ceremony for MoT (Management of Technology) and EPA (Engineering and Policy Analysis) students. He also received the MoT 2010 academic prize.

Hadi (32) comes from Iran, where he studied Software Engineering. He also ran his own software company there. “However, I often ran into management-related issues for which I really wanted answers. Then friends pointed me in the direction of the TPM MoT study programme. The programme appealed to me immediately: a management course, but especially for engineers. So that is how I got started here three years ago.”

Read the complete article in the Quarterly VIII/3, October 2010