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Kristof Van Laerhoven

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Multimodal Interactive Systems
Department of Computer Science
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Tel: +49-6151-16 5420
Fax: +49-6151-16 4117
Building S02|02 - Room: B107

Dr. Kristof Van Laerhoven

Post-Doc, Computer Science

Research

I am fascinated by sensors, their data, and techniques to process these data in particular. My work often involves creating small-scale sensor modules to augment tools, clothing and interactive devices, which are able to monitor and perceive what is going on, and can even learn to do so. I am especially interested in systems that combine information from many simple sensors, instead of relying on one powerful dedicated sensor.

My aims always include implementations that are deployable in real-world unpredictable situations, rather than in simulation or controlled lab trials. I see my core research challenges in these as adopting machine learning techniques in embedded sensors and sensor networks.

For a few examples, see:
TEA: an early context phone Pin&Play surface networks
 The Porcupine2
Cubicle Interaction cubes Porcupines Sensor Nodes
Fair Dice: small and wireless
 Spine: 'wearable' sensors
 or go to my projects
Mini Bio
I studied Latin-Sciences at College Essen (high school), got my 'Kandidaat' Computer Science degree at the University of Limburg (LUC) in 1997 and my 'Licentiaat' (M.Sc.) 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 supervising my Master's thesis "Adaptive Context Awareness".
After an internship at Starlab, a private research lab in Brussels, I stayed for two more years among an international collection of high-level scientists, changing my views on research completely, and working with/for Walter Van de Velde. (Starlab went famously bankrupt in 2001 but lives on).
Hans Gellersen then took me into the Embedded Interactive Systems group at the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom, where I finished a PhD thesis in 2005 entitled "Embedded Perception".
In April 2006, I moved to the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany for a postdoc position with Bernt Schiele's Multimodal Interactive Systems group.
Scientific Involvement
I am/was a Program Committee member (or chair) of the following events:
Eusai 2003, CAKES 2003 Lectures (organiser), Eusai 2004 (+demo track chair), UbiComp 2004 workshops, 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,  ubiPCMM 2006 (co-chair), PerTec 2007, TEI 2007, ACM SAC 2007, IWSAWC 2007 (chair), HCIEd 2007, UASS 2007, EUROSSC 2007, CONTEXT 2007, USC 2007, ISWC 2007, ubiPCMM 2007, UCitO 2007, IOT 2008, Pervasive 2008, TEI 2008, ISWC 2008 (+workshops chair), EUROSSC 2008, MidSens 2008, PerCom 2009, Pervasive 2009, INSS 2009

Funding review activities:
  • external scientific promotor for the IWT-funded SensorTIP project
  • occasional evaluator/expert for the European Commission's IST program (Future and Emergent Technologies).
Publications
Most of my papers are listed on my publications page. You can also try my name on Google Scholar, on DBLP, on the ACM Guide, IEEE XPlore, on Springer, etc.
Also, have a look at my research notes for unformatted sketches and intermediate research results. 
Teaching
  • Wireless Sensor Networks seminar Winter 2006: see WSNSEM 2006 
  • Wireless Sensor Networks practicum Summer 2007: see WSNLAB 2007 
  • Introduction in Computer Science 2 Summer 2007: see GDI2 / ICS2 2007 
  • Introduction in Computer Science 1 07-08: see ICS1 07-08 
  • Wireless Sensor Networks seminar Winter 2007: see WSNSEM 2007 
Students
I'm proud to have supervised these students with their thesis, studienarbeit, or diplomarbeit:
 
Projects
See my projects page. I worked on a large number of projects, funded by the European Commission (IST), the UK's EPSRC, the UK's DTI NextWave, and a variety of industrial partners.


by Kristof Van Laerhoven — last modified 2008-07-22 12:56