Team
Co-Founders
Vlad Trifa
Vlad is a PhD student at ETH Zurich at the Institute for Pervasive Computing, and a Research Associate SAP Research in Zurich since May 2007. He graduated in april 2006 with a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His thesis project was done at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), with Prof. Charles Taylor at the Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, jointly with Prof. Deborah Estrin at the Center of Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), where he developed a framework to use sensor networks to study the influence of sexual and natural selection upon the evolution of bird songs in real environments. Between may 2006 and april 2007, he spent one year as a researcher at the Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, at the ATR Research Center near Kyoto, Japan, where I worked on human-robot interaction using video and audio information.
Dominique Guinard
Dominique is a PhD student at the Institute for Pervasive Computing of ETH Zurich and a Research Associate for SAP Research Zurich since June 2007. He is also a member of the Auto-ID labs. He was formerly a researcher at the Information Management group of ETH working on mobile interactions with the Internet of Things for Nokia Research. Before this, he was a scientific collaborator of the Software Engineering group of the University of Fribourg and an intern as Sun Microsystems Switzerland, where he worked on scalable software architectures for the Internet of Things.
He received his MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Science and Management from the Universities of Fribourg and Bern. His master thesis was done at the Ubicomp lab of Lancaster University (UK) with Prof. Hans Gellersen, where he worked on using sensor networks to support mobile spontaneous interactions with the physical world.
Invited contributors
Erik Wilde, Associate Adjunct Professor at School of Information, UC Berkeley.
Ivan Delchev, Senior Researcher and Developer at SAP Research Zurich.
Andreas Brenner, Master in Global Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Contributors
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