News

2026

• Sep 2026 I will give a keynote talk at Alice & Eve Workshop (Utrecht, October 2026).
• Sep 2026 Doctoral committee member for Jeanne Parmentier, Utrecht University and University of Twente, “EQUAINE – Asking machines to understand equine data and keep learning from it.”
• Sep 2026 Doctoral committee member for Kristina Kirsten, HPI University of Potsdam, “Personal Ubiquitous Sensing for Clinical Mental Health Monitoring – Digital Phenotyping Exemplified by Observing Characteristics in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”
• Sep 2026 I am serving as PhD Forum Co-Chair of IEEE PerCom 2027 (Goa, India, March 2027).
• 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 Fatemeh Massah completed her EngD Thesis: “Towards a Digital Twin for Sustainable Construction Site Operations”.
• Aug 2026 Doctoral committee member for Thomas Hackett, University of Twente, “Microanemometry: Mo(o)re or Less”
• 2026 We co-organise two workshops at UbiComp/ISWC 2026: UbiComp4VRU 2026 and the 2nd DiversityOne Open Challenge.
• July 2026 Doctoral committee member for Khalil Ben Fredj, University of Twente: “B2X: BLE-Based Bicycle-to-Everything Wireless Communications”.
• 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!
• 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: “The Role of Mobile Computing in the Generative AI Era”, with the theme System Foundations for Generative AI at the Edge.
• Apr 2026 Doctoral committee member for Lingyu Du, Delft University of Technology: “Efficient and Trustworthy Gaze Estimation”.
• Feb 2026 Doctoral committee member for Andres Tello, University of Groningen: “Graph Representation Learning in Smart Environments”.

2025

• Nov 2025 Damian Gonzalez Gonzalez defended his MSc thesis: “A Lightweight Ensemble Framework for Sensor Fault Detection and Sensor Fusion in Earable Devices”.
• Oct 2025 Son Minh Nguyen defended his PhD thesis: Underspecification of transformers in indoor localization and indoor navigation.
• 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.
• Sep 2025 The Pervasive Systems group hosted iWOAR 2025, the 10th International Workshop on Sensor-Based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, at the University of Twente (Conference Chair).
• Aug 2025 Bambang Muharto defended his MSc thesis: “Silent Communication in High Noise Environments Using Earables: A Multi-Modal Sensing Approach”.
• Jul 2025 Kick-off of the Horizon Europe project TRUMAN (Trustworthy Human-centric AI). The PS group contributes to Work Package 3 (AI Methods).
• Jun 2025 Doctoral committee member for Ngakan Nyoman Kutha Krisnawijaya, Wageningen University: “Architectural Design of Data Management and Analytics Platforms for Smart Farming”.
• Jun 2025 Sidhharth Balakrishan defended his MSc thesis: “Earable-Based Visual Distraction Monitoring in Cyclists”.
• Apr 2025 Co-organised the CompSys track at ICT.OPEN 2025 with Nitinder Mohan.
• Apr 2025 Invited talk in the Science Track of the National Autonomous Systems Congress 2025, the Netherlands.
• Mar 2025 Doctoral committee member for Lin Zhou, Hasso Plattner Institute (University of Potsdam): “Personalized Mobile Gait Analysis: Towards Wearable-Based Rehabilitation in Daily Life”.
• Feb 2025 Gergana Georgieva defended her MSc thesis: “Leveraging Earable Sensors for Lightweight Gait-Based User Recognition”.
• Jan 2025 Yixiang Lu defended his MSc thesis: “Resource-Efficient Deep Learning For Mobile Activity Recognition On Edge Devices”.

2024

• Dec 2024 Joined the Lorentz Center Informatics Scientific Advisory Board.
• Nov 2024 Invited to the Technical Program Committee of ACM SenSys 2025.
• Nov 2024 Appointed Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT).
• Sep 2024 Keynote at the 9th International Workshop on Sensor-Based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (iWOAR 2024), HPI Potsdam: “Beyond the Basics: Enhancing Lightweight Models for Resource-efficient Human Activity Recognition”.
• Aug 2024 Sümeyye Ağaç defended her PhD thesis: “Enhancing Lightweight Models for Efficient Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition”.
• Jun 2024 Berrenur Saylam defended her PhD thesis: “Machine Learning for Well-being Assessment: Exploring Digital Biomarkers”.
• Jun 2024 Doctoral committee member for Seyed Keyarash Ghiasi, TU Delft: “Passive Visible Light Communications”.
• May 2024 Became Chair of the Pervasive Systems Research Group, University of Twente.
• Feb 2024 Opponent on the doctoral committee of Nikita Sharma, University of Twente: “Sensing the Care: Advancing Unobtrusive Sensing Solutions To Support Informal Caregivers Of Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment”.
• Jan 2024 Joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Internet Computing as Associate Editor.

Earlier

• Dec 2023 Grading committee member for Zhitao He, Uppsala University: “Enabling Scalable Security in Internet of Things”.
• Nov 2023 Panelist at the N2Women Meeting, ACM SenSys 2023.
• Nov 2022 Hosted, with Albert Ali Salah, an expert workshop in the HumMingBird project at Boğaziçi University: ‘Making the most of mobile phone data to map migration’.
• 2021 Received the Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (BAGEP), Turkey.