Senior research fellow in the Wearable Computing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH)

From 2005 to 2013 he was senior research fellow in the Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zürich, and since March 2013 Principal Research Assistant at the Digital Interaction group at Culture Lab, University of Newcastle, UK. His activities center on context awareness – especially human activity and gesture recognition – in wearable and pervasive computing. His interest lies in approaches and scenarios leveraging large-scale sensing, and keeping examples of impressive adaptation capabilities found in nature. He has a particular interest in methods improving the real-world robustness of context-aware systems. He coordinates the EU FP7 FET-Open project OPPORTUNITY, where we investigate novel methods for context-awareness in opportunistic sensors configurations. He is active in the EU FP7 FET-Proactive project SOCIONICAL, where he is interested in the machine understanding of crowds by means of sensor networks and complexity science models. Prior to that, he carried out my PhD at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems of EPFL, where he graduated in 2005. During my PhD he developed bio-inspired electronic circuits with fault-tolerance, learning, and developmental capabilities that were applied to the control of autonomous mobile robots and to signal processing. This work was carried out in context of the EU FP5 FET project POEtic.