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How I got here...
After studying Latin-Sciences at College
Essen (high school), I got my 'Kandidaat' Computer Science degree
at the University of Limburg (LUC)
in 1997 and my 'Licentiaat' Computer Science degree at the University
of Brussels (VUB) in 1999. In
Brussels, my main interests started to shift towards robotics and
neural networks and I got plenty of that doing projects at Luc Steels' VUB AI lab, with Bernard
Manderick as my thesis supervisor. In my last year, I worked as an
intern for Starlab,
a private research lab in the middle of Brussels that changed my views
on research completely, working with/for Walter Van de Velde.
The international collection of high-level scientists there, and the luxurious treatment we got,
made me stay on for two more years (until it went bankrupt due to money
shortage). Hans Gellersen
then asked me to join his Embedded
Interactive Systems group at the University
of Lancaster in 2001,
where I finished a PhD in 2005. In April 2006, I'll move to the
Technical University of Darmstadt for a postdoc position with Bernt
Schiele's Multimodal
Interactive Systems group.
Interests...
I like investigating how sensor data from typical pervasive or
ubiquitous sensors could be combined to classify and recognise
phenomena for the user.
Trying to remain highly active in wearable computing and ubiquitous computing, I'm publishing regularly at the major conferences for those fields (ISWC 2000, ISWC 2001, ISWC 2002, ISWC 2004, HUC 1999, Ubicomp 2002, ...), and I also seek to keep up with neural networks and machine learning (ICANN 2001, ECAI 2002, AIMS 2002, AIMS 2003, ...). I acted as a reviewer for various journals (PUC (Springer), IEEE PC, IEEE Trans. Sign. Proc., IEEE Computer, ...) and I serve in programme committees of related events (Eusai 2003, Eusai 2004 demo chair, UbiComp 2004 workshop, ISWC 2004 student colloquium, IWSAWC 2005, MRC 2005, sOc/EuSAI 2005, ACM SAC 2006, IWSAWC 2006, UCS 2006, MRC 2006, ISWC 2006 student colloquium chair, PTA 2006).
I also work occasionally as evaluator for the European Commission (Future and Emergent Technologies, IST).
Locally, I was co-organiser of Lancaster Computing Department's CAKES Seminar series and its Away Day (2 day conference at Castle Mona, Isle of Man), send the new team an email if you want to attend/present. I recently also started to help out at Lancaster's Linux users group.
More specific...- Multi-sensor Adaptive Context Acquisition in Wearable Computing
- The CommonSense ToolKit (visit also the CSTK manual)
- "Multi-Sensor Context Awareness", BSN'04, Imperial College, UK (IEEE best student presentation award) [PDF]
- "The Pervasive Sensor", invited opening talk at UCS 2004 , Tokyo, Japan [PDF]
- "Involving the User in Sensor-based Adaptive Systems", invited talk at SSR: , Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan [PDF]
- I still have most of my conference and workshop presentations (see my publications page), mail me if you are interested in one
Last updated by Kristof Van Laerhoven, 20/05/2004 10:02:35 +0100