Nicolai Marquardt - Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

University of Calgary

Department of Computer Science

2500 University Dr NW

Calgary, AB, T2Y 3V1

CANADA

Mobile: +1 (four zero three) 973 9842

Education

Since
September 2008

PhD Research Student University of Calgary, Canada

Department of Computer Science, GroupLab, Interactions Lab

Supervisor: Professor Dr. Saul Greenberg, Human-Computer Interaction

September 2005 -
February 2006

Visiting Research Student, University of Calgary, Canada

Department of Computer Science, GroupLab, Interactions Lab

Supervisor: Professor Dr. Saul Greenberg, Human-Computer Interaction

Research project: Shared Phidgets - A Toolkit for Rapidly Prototyping Distributed Physical User Interfaces (Grade A, Germany 1.0)*

Infrastructure and toolkit for the remote access to shared sensors and actuators (Phidget components)
Component and user control library for .NET with software representations for all Phidget devices
Development of various Ubiquitous Computing example applications using the toolkit (e.g., RFID aware sensor/actuator control, Sensor maps)
Implementation: VisualStudio.NET, C#, .NET CF
http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/cookbook/

April 2004 -
May 2008

Diploma (MSc) "Media Systems" (Computer Science), GPA* 4.0/4.0 (Notendurchschnitt 1.0/1.0),

at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Graduated with distinction, May 2008

Thesis project:
Developer Toolkit and Utilities for Rapidly Prototyping Distributed Physical User Interfaces

Supervisor: Professor Dr. Tom Gross, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Major Subjects and Research Interests: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Ubiquitous Computing, Tangible Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Research Projects:

'Collaboration Bus' HCI (Grade A, Germany 1.0)*

Development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to let end-users create new envisioned sensor-based applications
http://www.cmlab.net/tiki-index.php?page=RP_CollaborationBus

'Sens-ation - Sensor and Actuator Infrastructure' (Grade A, Germany 1.0)*

Development of a sensor infrastructure with easy integration of different sensor modules and providing of various interfaces (XML-RPC, AXIS/SOAP, HTML/PHP, etc.)
Technologies: Web services, mobile clients, business patterns, server technology, sensor/actuator hardware, XML descriptions
Implementation: J2EE, J2ME, SOAP, AXIS, XML-RPC, XML, XPath, XML Schema, PHP
http://www.cmlab.net/tiki-index.php?page=RP_Sens-ation_I

'Swarm Intelligence' (Grade A, Germany 1.0)*

Multi agent simulation system, based on the ACluster algorithm of V. Ramos and algorithms of E. Lumer & B. Faieta
Agent modelling, data mining, visualization, concurrent programming
Implementation: VisualStudio.NET, C++, OpenGL, GLUT, GLUI
http://typo3.medien.uni-weimar.de/index.php?id=97

'Metacoon e-Learning' (Grade A, Germany 1.0)*

Development of a tool for synchronizing an online platform with PIM (Personal Information Managers: Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook)
Implementation: VisualStudio.NET, Visual Basic, C++, PHP, COM (Component Object Model), vCard, vCal, iCal
http://www.metacoon.net

October 2001 -
April 2004

Intermediate diploma Media Systems ("Vordiplom"),
Grade A, Germany: 1.7*

at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Oral and written exam: Programming Languages and Software Engineering, Concurrent Programming, Fuzzy Logic Systems and Media Systems

October 2000 -
September 2001

Student at the Faculty of Computer Science,

Technical University, Karlsruhe, Germany
After the 2nd semester: enrolment at the Bauhaus University Weimar

July 1990 -
June 1999

High-school diploma / A-levels ("Abitur"), Grade A, Germany: 1.5*

St. Lioba School ("Gymnasium"), Bad Nauheim, Germany
Special subjects: mathematics and physics

Work Experience

June 2008 -
August 2008

Research Internship at Microsoft Research, Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Working on projects at the Socio-Digital Systems group. Supervisor: Alex Taylor

July 2006 -
November 2006

Research Internship at Microsoft Research, Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Working on projects at the Socio-Digital Systems group, together with Richard Banks, Abigail Sellen, Alex Taylor, and Ken Wood. Supervisor: Abigail Sellen.

January 1997 -
July 2006

Freelancer at the Konert Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH (Ltd)

Internet- and intranet-programming and design (PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL), authoring presentation software, graphic design (http://www.konert.de)
(Reference: Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Oec. Ottmar Konert)

April 2006 -
August 2006

Research project supervisor "Swarm Intelligence II"

Research with swarm intelligence algorithms, cluster analysis, parallel algorithms (Reference: Professor Dr. Bernd Froehlich, Bauhaus University Weimar)

April 2005 -
June 2005

Teaching assistant "Webtechnologies I"

Server- and Client-Technologies, Markup Languages, XML, SOAP, XML-RPC, Sockets (Reference: Professor Dr. Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar)

May 2005 -
September 2005

Website-Development of the Website for the Faculty of Media

XHTML, CSS, graphic design, Typo3 content management system (Reference: Professor Dr. Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar)

October 2003 -
March 2004
and
April 2004 -
July 2004

Teaching assistant "Programming Lectures and Software Engineering"

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), C++, STL, design pattern, SCHEME (statically scoped, tail-recursive, LISP dialect), UML design (Reference: Professor Dr. Bernd Froehlich, Bauhaus University Weimar)

June 2003 -
December 2003

Assistant for the research project "Metacoon", e-Learning platform

Development: module for PIM data exchange (Personal Information Manager, e. g. Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes), COM - Component Object Model, SQL, Visual Basic interface, PHP

October 2002 - 2003
and
October 2004 - 2005

Orientation leader for new students at the
Bauhaus University, Academic office

Mentor for new students at their first semester, organizing events and workshops

July 1999 -
June 2000

Community service (in lieu of military service)

"Kerckhoff" Hospital (Cardiology, Anaesthesia) in Bad Nauheim, Germany

Scholarships

Since
September 2008

iCORE Graduate PhD Scholarship

April 2005 -
April 2007

Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation

(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

September 2005 -
February 2006

Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service

(Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - DAAD) for the research visit at the University of Calgary

November 2005 -
September 2007

e-fellows.net Scholarship

(Founded by McKinsey & Company Inc., Deutsche Telekom AG, etc.)

Publications

2008

Gross, T., and Marquardt, N. (2006)

Creating, Editing, and Sharing Complex Ubiquitous Computing Environment Configurations with CollaborationBus.

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) (accepted). (ISSN Online: 1742-7193, ISSN Print: 1742-7185).

2007

Marquardt, N. and Greenberg, S. (2007)

Shared Phidgets: A Toolkit for Rapidly Prototyping Distributed Physical User Interfaces.

In TEI '07: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction (February 15-17, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA), ACM Press, pp. 13-20.

Gross, T. and Marquardt, N. (2007)

CollaborationBus: An Editor for the Easy Configuration of Ubiquitous Computing Environments.

In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network - Based Processing - PDP 2007 (Feb. 7-9, Naples, Italy). IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, (ISBN: 0-7695-2784-1).

2006

Gross, T., Egla, T. and Marquardt, N. (2006)

Sens-ation: A Service-Oriented Platform for the Development of Sensor-Based Infrastructures.

International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT) 1, 3 (2006). pp. 159-167. (ISSN Online: 1743-8217, ISSN Print: 1743-8209).

Technical Reports

2006

Marquardt, N. and Greenberg, S. (2006)

Shared Phidgets: A Toolkit for Rapidly Prototyping Distributed Physical User Interfaces.

Technical Report 2006-829-22, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4. April.

Gross, T. and Marquardt, N. (2006)

CollaborationBus: An Editor for the Easy Configuration of Complex Ubiquitous Computing Environments.

Technical Report # BUW - CSCW - 2006 - 02, Computer - Supported Cooperative Work Group, Faculty of Media, Bauhaus - University Weimar, Bauhausstr. 11, 99423 Weimar, Germany, April.

Gross, T., Egla, T. and Marquardt, N. (2006)

Sens-ation: A Service - Oriented Platform for Developing Sensor - Based Infrastructures.

Technical Report # BUW - CSCW - 2006 - 01, Computer - Supported Cooperative Work Group, Faculty of Media, Bauhaus - University Weimar, Bauhausstr. 11, 99423 Weimar, Germany, April.

Volunteering, Service

2008, 2009

Student Volunteer Co-Chair at CHI 2008 and CHI 2009.

April 2004,
April 2006,
November 2006

Student Volunteer at the CHI 2004, CHI 2006, and CSCW 2006 Conference

Conference of the ACM: 'Computer Human Interaction', Vienna (Austria) and Montreal (Canada). 'Computer-Supported Cooperative Work', Banff (Canada).

June 2003 -
June 2004

Member of the senate at the Bauhaus University

Decision committee of the university. Members are the president of the university, the deans, professors, assistants and four students

June 2002 -
June 2005

Member of the student representatives at the Faculty of Media

Projects: Organizing various events for students, helping new students, Development of the website (Content Management System): http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/fachschaft/

June 2002 -
June 2005