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Michel Gokan Khan
CTO, Technologist, Chairman, Founder, Entrepreneur
Stockholm, Sweden
Biography
I am a Stockholm-based technologist and entrepreneur. I currently serve as CTO of Co-Cart AB and co-founder of Softwarify (2025–Present), and previously worked as CTO of Spotin AB (2022–2024) as well as other hands-on tech leadership roles before that. My research spans ML-based optimization of cloud-native systems, digital twinning, and computer vision; industrially I focus on software design, architecture, and microservice-oriented development. I conducted research on digital twinning and optimization as a PostDoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in collaboration with AstraZeneca, and I hold a PhD in Machine Learning Driven Optimization of Cloud Native Systems from Karlstad University in Sweden. My publications include work on microservice performance simulation, modelling, and optimization (e.g., PerfSim), building on earlier research at Ericsson and other engineering leadership roles.
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Publications and Patents
For a complete list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar profile.
- Journal Articles:
- "Kani: a QoS-aware hypervisor-level scheduler for cloud computing environments" - Cluster Computing, 2016. Authors: Esmail Asyabi, Azadeh Azhdari, Mostafa Dehsangi, Michel Gokan Khan, Mohsen Sharifi, Sayed Vahid Azhari. [Link]
- "Service Function Chain Placement for Joint Cost and Latency Optimization" - Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 2191-2205, 2020. Authors: Mohammad Ali Khoshkholghi, Michel Gokan Khan, Kyoomars Alizadeh Noghani, Javid Taheri, et al. [Link]
- "PerfSim: A Performance Simulator for Cloud Native Microservice Chains" - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2021. Authors: Michel Gokan Khan, Javid Taheri, Auday Al-Dulaimy, Andreas Kassler. [Link] [Homepage] [Dataset]
- "PerfCam: Digital Twinning for Production Lines Using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Vision Models" - IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 85390-85406, May 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3567702. Authors: Michel Gokan Khan, Renan Guarese, Fabian Johnson, Xi Vincent Wang, Anders Bergman, Benjamin Edvinsson, Mario Romero, Jeremy Vachier, and Jan Kronqvist. [Link] [Dataset in Github] [Dataset in IEEE DataPort] [Code] [Video Presentation]
- "Fusing Model-based and Data-driven Prognostic Methods for Real-time Model Updating" - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Aug. 2025. Authors: Tianzhi Li, Morteza Moradi, Michel Gokan Khan, Renan Guarese, Jan Kronqvist, Mario Romero, Ming Xiao, and Xi Vincent Wang. [Link].
- "SocioBalance: A Network-Based Simulation Game to Rank Links' Impact Strength in a Complex Social System" - TBA, 2025. Authors: Arsineh Boodaghian Asl, Jayanth Raghothama, Michel Gokan Khan, Adam S. Darwich, Sebastiaan Meijer. [UNDER REVIEW]
- Conference Papers:
- "NFV-Inspector: A systematic approach to profile and analyze virtual network functions" - In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2018. Authors: Michel Gokan Khan, Saeed Bastani, Javid Taheri, Andreas Kassler, Shuiguang Deng. [Link] [Code in Github]
- "Automated Analysis and Profiling of Virtual Network Functions: the NFV-Inspector Approach" - In Proc. IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2018. Authors: Michel Gokan Khan, Javid Taheri, Andreas Kassler, Marian Darula. [Link]
- "A Performance Modelling Approach for SLA-Aware Resource Recommendation in Cloud Native Network Functions" - In Proc. IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2020. Authors: Michel Gokan Khan, Javid Taheri, Mohammad Ali Khoshkholghi, Andreas Kassler, et al. [Link]
- "Performance Benchmarking of Virtualized Network Functions to Correlate Key Performance Metrics with System Activity" - In Proc. International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF), 2020. Authors: Yogesh Sharma, Michel Gokan Khan, Javid Taheri, Andreas Kassler. [Link]
- "Graph Attention Networks and Deep Q-Learning for Service Mesh Optimization: A Digital Twinning Approach" - In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024. Authors: Michel Gokan Khan, Javid Taheri, Andreas Kassler, Arsineh Boodaghian Asl. [Link]
- "Model-Based Interview Method Selection Approach in Participatory Design" - In Interactivity and the Future of the Human-Computer Interface, 2020. Authors: Arsineh Boodaghian Asl, Michel Gokan Khan. [Link]
- "An Empirical Study on GUI-ii Interview Methods in Participatory Design" - In Proc. International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, 2019. Authors: Arsineh Boodaghian Asl, Michel Gokan Khan. [Link]
- "Studying the Effect of Online Medical Applications on Patients Healing Time and Doctors Utilization Using Discrete Event Simulation" - In Proc. IEEE International Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering (EHB), 2019. Authors: Arsineh Boodaghian Asl, Michel Gokan Khan. [Link]
- "A Scoping Review and Project Proposal for Immersive Solutions towards Predictive Maintenance" - Accepted in Proc. The 4th International Workshop on eXtended Reality for Industrial and Occupational Supports, 2025. Authors: Renan Guarese, Michel Gokan Khan, David Lassiter, Jeremy Vachier, Fabian Johnson, Benjamin Edvinson, Anders Bergman, Xi Vincent Wang, and Mario Romero. [Link to IEEE Xplore comes here soon]
- Books and Book Chapters:
- "Introduction to Edge Computing" - In Edge Computing: Models, Technologies and Applications, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020. Authors: Auday Al-Dulaimy, Yogesh Sharma, Michel Gokan Khan, Javid Taheri. [Link]
- "Edge Computing: Models, Technologies and Applications" - Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020. Editors: Javid Taheri, Shuiguang Deng. Authors: Javid Taheri, et. al. [Link]
- "Resource allocation models in/for edge computing" - In Edge Computing: Models, Technologies and Applications, 2020. Authors: Mohammad Ali Khoshkholghi, Yogesh Sharma, Michel Gokan Khan, Auday Al-Dulaimy, Javid Taheri. [Link]
- "Networking models and protocols for/on edge computing" - In Edge Computing: Models, Technologies and Applications, 2020. Authors: Yogesh Sharma, Michel Gokan Khan, Auday Al-Dulaimy, Mohammad Ali Khoshkholghi, Javid Taheri. [Link]
- "Open-source projects for edge computing" - In Edge Computing: Models, Technologies and Applications, 2020. Authors: Michel Gokan Khan, Auday Al-Dulaimy, Mohammad Ali Khoshkholghi, Javid Taheri. [Link]
- Patents:
- "Performance Modeling for Cloud Applications" - US Patent 11,962,474, 2024. Inventors: Michel Gokan Khan, Wenfeng Hu, Carolyn Cartwright, Huiyuan Wang. [Google Patents]
- Theses:
- "Unchaining Microservice Chains: Machine Learning Driven Optimization in Cloud Native Systems" - PhD Thesis, Karlstad University, 2023. Author: Michel Gokan Khan. [DiVA Portal] [Video]
- "Performance Modelling and Simulation of Service Chains for Telecom Clouds" - Licentiate Thesis, Karlstad University, 2021. Author: Michel Gokan Khan. [DiVA Portal]
- "SLA-Aware Virtual Machines CPU Scheduling in Cloud Environments" - Master's Thesis, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2015. Author: Michel Gokan Khan. [Link]
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