Vlad is a research associate with SAP Research in Zürich, and studies Wireless Sensor Networks in the context of Enterprise Service-Oriented Architectures. In the meanwhile he is also a PhD student at the Institute for Pervasive Computing at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich). Prior to that, he designed sensor networks to monitor tropical antbirds in mexican rainforests and californian natural reservations with the CENS Group and the Department of Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Also, he worked on multimodal human-computer interaction, humanoid robotics, and computational neurosciences at ATR International Research Center, in Kyoto, Japan. He graduated with a MsC degree in Computer Science, with a specialization in robotics and artificial intelligence from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Nominatie SpinAward 2008
ikTag en interactieve Social RFID Games
Mediamatic en een team kunstenaars en ontwerpers van het Social RFID workshopteam zijn genomineerd voor een SpinAward 2008 in de categorie Beste Innovatie voor de IkTag & Interactieve Social RFID...