I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Twente and Chair of the Pervasive Systems (PS) Research Group in the Faculty of EEMCS. I lead a team of about 30 researchers working on sensing systems, from multimodal data captured on resource-constrained devices such as earables to intelligence that runs efficiently at the edge.
My research sits at the intersection of mobile and wearable computing, Edge AI and the Internet of Things. Across more than 16 years of research, my aim has been to close the gap between physical sensing and intelligent action. Before joining Twente in 2024, I was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University and at Galatasaray University, and I held a visiting position at USC’s Autonomous Networks Research Group (ANRG).
Highlights
- Editorial: Associate Editor, ACM IMWUT and IEEE Internet Computing
- Advisory/Scientific Boards: Member of Lorentz Center Informatics Scientific Advisory Board; UT Advanced Manufacturing Center Scientific Board; EEMCS Data Science & AI Lab, Advisory Board; UT Representative, ARISE (Dutch national research infrastructure for biodiversity monitoring), Steering Board.
- Conferences: PhD Forum Co-Chair, IEEE PerCom 2027; Conference Chair, iWOAR 2025
- Keynotes/Talks: UbiComp/ISWC 2025 (DiversityOne), iWOAR 2024 (all talks)
Research Focus
We build context-aware, resource-efficient sensing systems that work in the wild. A recurring question in our work is the trade-off between algorithmic complexity and energy consumption.
- Multimodal earables and wearables. Going beyond activity tracking to complex behavioural monitoring with ear-worn and body-worn devices, for example in cyclist safety.
- Edge AI and algorithmic efficiency. Lightweight, on-device and distributed machine learning for battery-powered devices, without reliance on the cloud.
- Pervasive and multimodal sensing. Combining diverse signals, from IMUs to wireless channel state information, to capture rich context about human activity, well-being and the built environment.
Current projects are listed under Research. Team members are on the Team page.
Our Work in Video
Recent News
- Sep 2026 I will give a keynote talk at Alice & Eve Workshop (Utrecht, October 2026).
- Sep 2026 I am serving as PhD Forum Co-Chair of IEEE PerCom 2027 (Goa, India, March 2027). The call for PhD Forum submissions will open soon.
- Sep 2026 A new specialization track, Sustainable Computing (SusCo), is introduced by CAES, DACS and PS groups (EDGE Research Centre) within the University of Twente’s Computer Science Master’s programme in the 2026–2027 academic year
- Aug 2026 Nina Schoppe defended her MSc thesis: “Using Gradient-Based Analysis for Sensor-Fault Detection in Federated Learning in the Context of Cyber-Physical Systems”.
- Aug 2026 Arda Guney presented his MSc thesis: “Multimodal Wearable Sensing of Group Activity: Understanding, Recognizing and Predicting Collaborative Group Activities from Wearable Sensor Data”
- 2026 Fatemeh Massah completed her EngD: “Towards a Digital Twin for Sustainable Construction Site Operations” (with Rob Bemthuis, Martijn Koot and Martijn Mes).
- June 2026 our project, “Responsible Immersive Support for Firefighter Retreat under Unreliable Spatial and Communication Information,” has been awarded funding by Nationaal Regieorgaan Praktijkgericht Onderzoek SIA (NWO) through the NGF-CIIIC Start program!
- 2026 We co-organise two workshops at UbiComp/ISWC 2026: UbiComp4VRU 2026 and the 2nd DiversityOne Open Challenge.
- May 2026 Invited talk at the Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series, University of Cambridge: Resource-Efficient Health Sensing from (W)Earables to Ecosystems.
- Apr 2026 PC Co-Chair of the EMDL 2026 workshop at ACM MobiSys, on the role of mobile computing in the generative AI era.
- Oct 2025 Keynote at the DiversityOne Open Challenge, UbiComp/ISWC 2025: “From Sensing to System: Data Collection and Edge AI with Resource Constraints”. The PS group presented five workshop papers.
- Oct 2025 Son Minh Nguyen defended his PhD thesis: Underspecification of transformers in indoor localization and indoor navigation.