Members
 | Assoc.Prof. Dr. Mihail Hristov Antchev antchev@tu-sofia.bg Tel: +359-2-965-212 Technical University - Sofia Bulgaria, Sofia 1797, Department of Power Electronics, Blvd Kl. Ohridski 8 |
| Dr. Mihial Antchev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1955. He received the M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Power Electronics from Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Technology, Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1981 and 1990, respectively. From 1981 to 1986, he worked as an engineer in Technical University -Sofia. During his first years as an engineer, he was sent in specialisation in London at Brunel University and in Moscow at Technical University - Moscow. From 1986 to 1993, he worked as assistant in Department of Power Electronics. In 1993, he became an associate professor in discipline Industrial Electronics. Currently, Dr. Antchev is an associate professor in Technical University - Sofia. From 1995 to1999, he was a vice-dean of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Technology, TU - Sofia, and, during 1999-2005 - technical tutor of the College of Electronic Systems in Sofia with Technical University - Sofia. His special research interests are in power electronics devices, theirs energy factors, harmonics, compensation of reactive power, power quality, dynamics and control systems. He is author or co-author in more than 60 papers published in magazines, transactions and conferences. He is a member of Power Electronics Society and IEEE. | |
 | M. Sc. Jan Brissman jan.brissman@tac.com Tel: +46-40-386880 TAC AB Sweden, 21375 Malmö, Jägershillgatan 18 |
| Jan Brissman holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Lund, Sweden. He has had a number of different positions during his 29 years with TAC, giving him more than 25 years of management experience. He now has a position as Technology Manager in the corporate Marketing, Research and Development organisation, which makes him responsible for future technologies to be used in TAC's Building Automation and Control Systems. | |
 | Dr. Dietmar Bruckner bruckner@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-38423 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Dietmar Bruckner was born 1979 in Zwettl in Lower Austria. After graduating at the HTL Karlstein he started studying Electrical and Computer Engineering at the TU Vienna in 1999. He received a MSc. in 2004 and a PhD. in 2007. Since January 2004 he is staff member of the ICT. His research activities cover: Video Compression, Digital Signal Processing, Bayes' Statistics and Building Automation ("Intelligent Environment") | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Xavier Carcelle xavier.carcelle@edf.fr Tel: +33-1-30878019 EDF R&D France, 78400 Chatou, 8, Quai Watier |
| Xavier Carcelle holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Enginnering and a Teaching Degree in EE from the Ecole Normale Superieure of Cachan, France. He also spent a year in the Master Of Science's Program from Texas A&M University in EE. He has worked as CTO for a french Internet Portal in 2000 and then joined the EDF Group as a Telecommunications Expert in 2001and worked on several Telecommunications Projects including architect for the first SDH Loop based on Fibers Optics wrapped around High Voltage Lines, Software Engineer for a californian subsidy of the EDF Group working on Video Over IP and then for an another subsidy specialized on PLC Networks (Indoor and Outdoor). He is now a member of the I&C core team of EDF R&D as a Wireless Expert and a ZigBee Alliance member. | |
 | Dr. Tuan Dang tuan.dang@ieee.org Tel: +33-1-30877918 EDF R&D France, 78400 Chatou, 8, Quai Watier |
| Dr. Tuan Dang is a Senior Research engineer at "Performance Optimization of Industrial Process" Department of EDF R&D. He graduated his Ph.D from the "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris" in 1994 and his engineering degree from the "Ecole Centrale de Nantes" in 1990. He has worked for Matra MS2i, Essilor International and Air Liquide in the field of signal processing and embedded systems, ophthalmic optical I&C, industrial information systems and telecontrol for On-site Gas Production before joining EDF R&D Division in 2001, where he has led a project on Telecontrol Infrastructure for Distributed Power generation. He is responsible for the animation of a core team in I&C for the EDF Group. His research interest concerns industrial messaging protocols and open system and communication architectures for automation. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Deutsch tobias.deutsch@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-38421 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Tobias Deutsch was born 1975 in Vienna/Austria. After graduating at the HTL Ungargasse he started studying Computer Science at the TU Vienna in 1996 and completed his degree in March 2007. Since October 2005 he is staff member of the ICT. His current research focuses on cognitive intelligence, building automation and autonomous agents on the Vienna University of Technology at the Institute of Computer Technology. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Dietmar Dietrich dietrich@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-38410 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Dietmar Dietrich became professor of Computer Technology at the ICT in 1992, and Head of the Institute in 1999. Prior to this, he worked in the air- and space industry (computer architecture and bus systems) and later in communication industry (mainly in ISDN development). In 1986 he was appointed as professor of Computer Science in Bielefeld (Germany). He focused his research on communication systems (especially on fieldbus systems) and ASIC design, also including built-in test systems, boundary scan, smart card technology, architecture of process control and control units for communication systems. Dietmar Dietrich is vice-president, convenor, chair and member (advisory board, ...) of various national and international organizations (OVE, OGMA, LNO...) and also delegate of the OVE and NO for CEN and CENELEC. In 1994 he founded the Center of Excellence for Fieldbus Systems, and initiated the, today internationally established in IFAC, Fieldbus Conference FeT in 1995. He has been a co-organizer of various tracks and conferences in IEEE (for example WFCS 2004 in Vienna). He has produced 120+ papers and books and international conference presentations. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Peter Fischer fischer@fh-dortmund.de Tel: +49-231-91 12-290 Dortmund University of Applied Sciences Germany, 44139 Dortmund, Sonnenstrasse 96 |
| Peter Fischer received the diploma degree in electrical Engineering from the University in Karlsruhe and the Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology. Before he became a professor for Information Technology at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund in 1992 he was with two companies in building automation and control business. In both companies he was in charge for the development of communication systems for building automation and control applications. Since 1987 Peter Fischer is chair, co-chair or member in several national (GI, VDMA, DIN-NHRS, LNO, BMA-BTL), European (CEN, KNX Association, B.I.G-EU) and international organisations (ISO). He has produced 50+ papers and books and international conference presentations. | |
 | Prof. Dr. José Fonseca jaf@det.ua.pt Tel: +351-234-37 03 30 University of Aveiro Portugal, 3810-193 Aveiro, |
| José Alberto G. Fonseca (IEEE Member since 2000) was born in Aveiro, Portugal, in 1957. He graduated in electronics and telecommunications engineering and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 1980 and 1992, respectively. He has been an Associate Professor in the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, since 2000. His current research interests are embedded systems, distributed real-time systems, and industrial communications. He has been coordinating several research projects funded by the Portuguese government in the field of distributed embedded systems and he participates in two European projects. Since 1992, he has authored or coauthored more than 80 technical papers and has recently submitted two patents for fieldbus-based systems. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Heinz Frank frank@hs-heilbronn.de Tel: +49-7940-1306-124 Reinhold Würth University Germany, 74653 Künzelsau, Daimlerstr. 35 |
| Heinz Frank received the diploma degree in electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1979 and the Ph.D. from the same university in 1985. Until 1991 he was at a machine tool company in charge for the development of computer control systems for manufacturing systems. In 1991 he became a professor for automation engineering at the Reinhold Würth University in Künzelsau. His current projects have their focus on communication systems in the area of automation engineering. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Gerstinger gerstinger@ict.tuwien.ac.at Tel: +43-1-58801-38457 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Andreas Gerstinger was born in Graz in 1973, where he has also completed his academic studies. However, during this time, he has spent one year in a High School in North Carolina (USA), and one year at the Royal Holloway College in London (UK). He studied telematics (which is a combination of mainly computer science with some aspects of telecommunication technology) at the University of Technology in Graz. His master thesis was about the industrial application of the formal method VDM in software engineering. During this work, contact to the company Frequentis was established, where he has spent almost 6 years. He worked in the fields of System Safety, Reliability and Software Quality. Now he is employed at the Institute of Computer Technology, where he works in a project about Safety and Reliability for the companies Frequentis and Alcatel. One of the goals is the scientific research of practically relevant issues, and the further build-up of competence in this area in the institute. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Luís Gomes lugo@ieee.org Tel: +351-212948336 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Portugal, 2829-516 Monte de Caparica, Edificio X - Gab. 2.22 |
| Luís Gomes is professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and a researcher at UNINOVA Institute, Portugal. From 1984 to 1987, he was with EID, a Portuguese medium enterprise in the area of electronic system design, in the R&D engineering department. His main interests include the usage of formal methods for embedded systems co-design, like Petri nets and other concurrency models, emphasizing reconfigurable devices and SoC based implementations. He was the responsible for the organization of the Petri Nets Conference in 1998, and served as general co-chair for IEEE ETFA-2003 Conference, both at Lisbon. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Hani Hagras hani@essex.ac.uk Tel: +44-1206-873601 The University of Essex UK, England, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Wivenhoe Park |
| Professor Hagras is a Professor of Computer Science in the University of Essex. His major research interests are in the areas of Intelligent Environments, Ambient Intelligence, Embedded Agents, Ubiquitous Computing and Computational Intelligence. He is also strongly interested in the areas of Robotics and intelligent control of industrial processes. He has authored more than 100 papers in international journals, conferences and books. He was the principal investigator and co-investigator of many projects in the areas of intelligent environments, ambient intelligence and embedded agents which received funding from EU, DTI, EPSRC, Korea-UK S&T fund and many industrial companies which totaled to about £ 2 Million in the last five years. He is Senior Member of the IEEE a Fellow of the IET (IEE) and he is also a member of the Executive Committee of the IEE Robotics and Mechatronics Professional Network. He is associate editor in the International Journal of Robotics and Automation. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hancke g.hancke@ieee.org Tel: +27-12-420-2386 University of Pretoria Republic of South Africa, Pretoria 0002, |
| Gerhard Hancke received the D.Eng (1983) from the University of Pretoria, where he is currently Chair of the Computer Engineering Program. He held offices in various scientific/professional bodies and has extensive experience in organizing major international conferences. He served on the IEEE Region 8 Committee as Vice-Chair for Membership Activities and is currently candidate for Region 8 Director-Elect. He has produced 70+ papers and international conference presentations, mainly in the instrumentation and measurement field. His current interest is wireless sensor networks. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Seung Ho Hong shhong@hanyang.ac.kr Tel: +82-31-400-5213 Hanyang University Korea, 425-791 Ansan, 1271 Sa-1-dong |
| Seung Ho Hong is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Hanyang University in Korea. He holds a PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in the USA. He has over 15 years of experience doing industrial communication network systems research. Specifically, he is interested in: performance analysis of industrial communication network systems using mathematical, simulation and experimental models; optimization of industrial communication network systems using bandwidth allocation schemes; analysis, design and implementation of building automation and control networks and home networking systems; network-based intelligent sensors and actuators; network-based distributed control and automation systems, as well as standardization of industrial communication networks. He has produced 40+ papers and international conference presentations and has lead numerous research projects as principal investigator. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Kabitzsch kabitzsch@inf.tu-dresden.de Tel: +49-351-463-38 289 Dresden University of Technology Germany, 01062 Dresden, TU Dresden, Mommsenstrasse 13 |
| Klaus Kabitzsch holds a Diploma and a Ph.D. (1982) in electrical Engineering and communications technology from the Ilmenau Technical University. He worked in the following years in the industry in the area of control of machines and equipment. After 1989 he worked at the universities in Leipzig and Dresden and focused his research on fieldbuses, distributed systems, real time software and automation. Klaus Kabitzsch became professor and head of the department of technical computer sciences in 1993 and vice dean of the faculty of computer science at the Dresden University of Technology in 2000. His current projects have their focus on wireless networks and their application in the automation domain, component based software design and performance engineering for fieldbuses, design tools for networked building automation, energy management in buildings and low power WPAN protocols. He is member or chair of various national and international organizations (VDE, CEN, LNO) and founded in Dresden the fieldbus competence center in 1995 and the SAP ubiquitous computing laboratory in 2004. He is author or co-author of 70+ scientific publications, 5 books and 9 patents. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kastner wkastner@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-183 20 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Treitlstraße 1/4 |
| Wolfgang Kastner received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr. techn. degrees in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria in 1992 and 1996, respectively. Since 1992, he is with the Institute of Automation, Vienna, Austria, where he has been holding the position of Associate Professor of computer science since 2001. From 1992 to 1996, he was working on reliable transmission protocols for distributed real-time systems. Since 1997, his research interests are in the area of field area networks and automation systems, with a special focus on spontaneous networking and home and building automation networks. Dr. Kastner has been a member of the program committee of numerous IEEE conferences and workshops. | |
 | Dipl-.Ing. Friederich Kupzog kupzog@ict.tuwien.ac.at Tel: +43-1-58801-38424 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Friederich Kupzog was born in 1979 in Cologne, Germany. He attended secondary school at Hansa Gymnasium, Cologne before he did one year of alternative civilian service at Drogenhilfe Köln e.V. (Cologne drugs aid). He studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University of Technology . Besides he run a littly one-man company "Kupzog Electronics & Software (see www.kupzog.de/fkmk_uk). After an 6 month industrial placement at Adaptive Communication Systems Ltd., ECIT Institute, in Belfast, Northern Ireland he achieved the Diploma degree at RWTH Aachen in 2006 with his thesis about a hardware implementation of a high-throughput data packet sorter circuit for next generation internet router applications. He joined the ICT in February 2006. | |
 | M. Sc. E. E. Pawel Kwasnowski kwasn@agh.edu.pl Tel: +48-12-6380567 AGH - University of Science and Technology Krakow Poland, 30059 Krakow, KANiUP Al. Mickiewicza 30, B1 |
| Pawel Kwasnowski holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from AGH – University of Science and Technology of Krakow, Poland. Senior lecturer at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics of AGH–UST. Since 1977 involved in university teaching and researches in industrial applications of digital control systems based on PLCs and SCADA (for metallurgic, cement and kiln industries). Active promoter of open systems technology and animator of LonWorks community in Poland, co-founder of Polish LonUsers Group - PLUG. President of ZDANiA – university spin-off technology transfer company. Member of Polish Standardization Committee (PKN) of TC173 of Home and Building Electronic Systems and Polish delegate to TC247 of European Standardization Committee (CEN) WG4 and WG5. Team member and leader of many scientific projects, author and co-author of 46 articles, 3 patents, 35 reports, 28 presentations at international conferences. Experienced in industrial applications - project manager of ca. 30 (involved in 60) industrial applications of huge, multilevel PLC and SCADA control systems and several building automation systems. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Roland Lang langr@ict.tuwien.ac.at Tel: +43-58801-38458 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Roland Lang was born 1978 in Vienna/Austria. He finished his studies of electronics, especially control engineering and telecommunications in June 2001. His current research focuses on cognitive automation (project ARS) on the Vienna University of Technology at the Institute of Computer Technology. As an IEEE Member he joined the Organizing Committee of the INDIN2007, is organizing officer of the IEEE Region 8 Section Austria and Secretary of the IEEE Student Branch Vienna. | |
 | Dr. Dietmar Loy dloy@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-4020805-22 Loytec electronics GmbH Austria, 1170 Vienna, Blumengasse 35 |
| Dietmar Loy holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in electrical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology. From 1992 till 1999 he held a research and teaching position at the University of Technology Vienna. From 1999 until 2002 he held a management position for Embedded System Design at Coactive Networks, USA. Since 2003 Dietmar Loy is CTO at LOYTEC electronics Vienna. In thisposition he is responsible for current and future research and development activities in the field of building automation. Dietmar Loy has published 30+ publications and books on control networks. He is a reviewer for IEEE transactions and international conferences. | |
 | Dr. Stefan Mahlknecht mahlknecht@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-38447 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Stefan Mahlknecht holds a Diploma and a Ph.D. in electrical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology. He spend one year at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champain (USA), where he focused on communication networks and protocols. He is currently a research and teaching assistant at the University of Technology Vienna. His doctoral thesis dealt with the topic of energy-self-sufficient wireless sensor networks. His research interests are devoted to low power wireless technologies, home automation as well embedded systems and robotics. | |
 | Prof. Dr. Yongseon Moon moon@sunchon.ac.kr Tel: +82-61-753-888 Sunchon National Univ. Korea, 375 Sunchon, Maegok-dong |
| Yongseon is Professor of Electronic Eng. And CEO of RED ONE Technologies. Co., LTD. | |
 | Dr. Mario Neugebauer m.neugebauer@ieee.org Tel: +49-351-463-38066 SAP Research CEC Dresden Germany, 01187 Dresden, SAP |
| Mario Neugebauer holds a Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering and communication systems of the Dresden Technical University. His research interests are performance analysis and wireless sensor networks. Since 2002 he is applied at the Institute of Communication Systems and since 2004 also member of the SAP laboratory on ubiquitous computing. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Novak novakthomas@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-38427 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Thomas Novak was born in Vienna/Austria and graduated in electrical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in 2005. He is staff member of the Institute of Computer Technology since 2005. His main research field is safety and security in home and building automation. | |
 | Dr. Peter Palensky palensky@ieee.org Tel: +1-510-486-7126 Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering University of Pretoria South Africa, Pretoria, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Rd, Bldg. 90-3121 94720 Berkeley, CA USA |
| Peter Palensky holds a Diploma and a Ph.D. in electrical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology. He was working in Academia and Industry and is now Professor at the University of Pretoria. He is active in international standardisation committees like ISO or CEN. His main research fields are automation networks, home and building automation and energy management. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Tae Jin Park tj0809@ihanyang.ac.kr Tel: +82-31-400-4084 Hanyang University Korea, 425-791 Ansan, 1271 Sa-1-dong |
| Taejin Park received the B. E. and the master degree in control and instrumentation engineering from Hanyang University in 1997 and 1999 respectively. After 6 years' practical research and development experience in Nara Controls, Siemens Building Technologies Korea and Hwasin Industrial systems, he is currently working toward the Ph. D. degree in the dept. of electronic, electrical, control and instrumentation in Hanyang University at Ansan, Korea. His research interests are the analysis, design and implementation of networked control systems; performance analysis and improvement of industrial communication systems; building automation and home automation; process automation; fieldbus and system integration. Currently he is working on some projects with BACnet, ZigBee and Foundation Fieldbus. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Joern Ploennigs Joern.Ploennigs@inf.tu-dresden.de Tel: +49-351-463-38066 Dresden University of Technology Germany, 01062 Dresden, TU Dresden, Mommsenstrasse 13 |
| Jörn Plönnigs received his Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering from the Dresden Technical University in 2001. Since 2002 he is research assistant at the Institute of Communication Systems, working in the area of network and traffic modelling; simulation and network performance engineering for building automation networks and wireless sensor networks. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Rausch rausch@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-38454 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Thomas Rausch studied computer science at the Vienna University of Technology where he graduated in 2003. Since June 2003 he is employed as scientific employee at the Institute of Computer Technology where he works on his PhD. His main research topics are highly available computer networks, though he has also worked in other projects (e.g. on energy management). | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Charlotte Roesener Tel: Austria, , |
| Charlotte Roesener has studied at Vienna University of Technology Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In November 2002 she graduated her master studies with distinction. The objective of her diploma thesis are special aspects of fault tolerance, in particular defect tracking systems in circuitry, network management, and fault tolerance in the human body (bionics). From May 2003 to March 2005 she worked as a scientific employee at the Institute of Computer Technology. The main focus on her scientific work was intelligent networks in building automation, autonomous behavior arbitration of mobile robots, and information technology for energy networks. She participated in the projects JEVis, IRON et. al. From April 2005 to march 2007 she entered a program to work as a research student in the Yakoh laboratory, Department of System Design Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Tôkyô, Japan. In July 2007 she completed her Ph.D. degree with the thesis „Adaptive Behavior Arbitration for Mobile service Robots in Building Automation“. At present she works as a free-lance researcher. | |
 | Dr. Gerhard Russ gerhard.russ@arcs.ac.at Tel: +43-(0)50 550-41 34 ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH Austria, 1220 Vienna, Tech Gate Vienna, Donau-City-Straße 1 |
| Gerhard Russ, born in 1971 in Graz, Austria, studied computer science at the Technical University of Vienna. The topic of his diploma thesis was the analysis of different sensor and actuator systems and the problems resulting from a cooperation of them. After graduating in 2000, he worked at the Institute of Computer Technology, Technical University of Vienna, as a research scientist. In 2003 he received a Ph.D. (Computer Science) for his work in designing a bionic model to improve the behavior of building automation systems: based upon biological methods and concepts a model architecture for automation systems was developed. Since 2003 he works as the area leader for Ambient Intelligence at ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH in Vienna. His application fields are the development of smart environments, autonomous and adaptive learning systems, and multimodal interfaces. | |
 | Dr. Thilo Sauter sauter@ieee.org Tel: +43-2622-23420-11 Austrian Academy of Sciences Austria, 2700 Wr. Neustadt, Viktor Kaplan Straße 2 |
| Thilo Sauter was born in Biberach, Germany, in 1967. He received his Dipl.-Ing. and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology in 1992 and 1999, respectively. From 1992 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the Institute of General Electrical Engineering, working in the area of programmable logic and analog ASIC design. Since 1996, he has been with the Institute of Computer Technology, where he was head of the center of excellence for fieldbus systems and leading the factory communications group. He is member of the Austrian technical committee ÖVE MR65SC and delegate in the CENELEC committee TC65SC, both concerned with fieldbus standardization. His current research interests are integrated sensor systems and communication networks in automation, with a focus on interconnection issues of fieldbus systems and IP-based networks. Present teaching activities include fieldbus systems, fault tolerant systems, and the design of analog integrated circuits. Since 2004, he is head of the Research Unit for Integrated Sensor Systems established by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. | |
 | Dr. Wonseok Song bacnet@korea.com Tel: +82-31-785-1776 I-Controls Korea, 463-859 Seongnam, 11, Jeongja-dong, Bundang-gu, |
| Won Seok Song is currently a researcher in I-Controls Co, Ltd. He received the Ph.D. degree in control and instrumentation engineering from Hanyang University, Korea. He has been made a research for implementation and analysis of BACnet protocol and building automation systems. He participated in localization for BACnet and ISO 16484 standard in Korea. He developed a BACnet protocol stack software and simulation models to investigate the characteristics of BACnet systems. He is interested in: performance analysis of industrial communication network systems using simulation and experimental models; analysis, design and implementation of building automation and control networks and home networking systems, as well as standardization of industrial communication networks. | |
 | Dr. Stefan Soucek soucek@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-4020805-24 Loytec electronics GmbH Austria, 1080 Vienna, Stolzenthalergasse 24/3 |
| Stefan Soucek was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1974. He received his Dipl.-Ing. and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 1999 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna, Austria. From 2000 to 2002 he joined the development team for LonWorks/IP routers and control network systems at Coactive Networks, Inc., Calif., USA. Since 2002 he is head of development and research at LOYTEC, Vienna. His special research interests are fieldbus control systems over IP networks, protocol design, and design methods in embedded systems. Currently, he is working on applications in the control network/IP area, focusing on EIA-852 and BACnet. He has produced 20+ publications, books and patents in the field. Further, he is reviewer for IEEE transactions and international conferences and is active in standards development in building automation communications systems. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Albert Treytl treytl@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-38449 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Albert Treytl received his master degree in electrical engineering (focus on computer technology) at the Vienna University of Technology. From 1996 to 2000 he led the development of a bank simulation programme for the Austrian government. End of 2000 he joined the Institute of Computer Technology as a research assistant in the area of energy management systems and security. The focus of his research lies on security of automation networks such as field busses and wireless ad-hoc networks. The topics of his research projects included web-based interfacing of energy management systems, electronic payment, smart card development and research, and the planning of security architectures. Currently he is responsible for the security architecture of the power line communication system designed within the European project REMPLI and working on security for reconfigurable automation networks. | |
 | Dr. Gerhard Zucker zucker@ieee.org Tel: +43-1-58801-38443 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 |
| Gerhard Zucker (né Gerhard Pratl) finished his PhD in April 2006. His research focuses on communication technology in industrial and building automation as well as the integration of classical building automation with psychological and neuropsychoanalytical models. He works in project ARS and project SENSE (funded by the European Commission), which are the two most relevant projects focussing on this direction of research. | |
Consultants
 | Mag. Arch. Sandrine von Klot klot@svk-architecture.at Tel: +43/1/729 94 99 svk-architecture Austria, 1020 Wien, Böcklinstr. 110/3 |
| After having studied in Berlin and Vienna, Sandrine von Klot received her Master Degree of Architecture at SCI ARC, Los Angeles (US) in 1996. In 1997 she became Cofounder of ´Escape*spHere´, an architectural practice based in Vienna. The evolving range of projects oscillated between technological research work, interactive installation work in various art context based locations (Ars Electronica Linz 01) and build projects in Vienna. (www.escapesphere.at) In cooperation with A.Fitz (cultural theorist) she curated the exhibition `Trespassing´ at the Secession in Vienna in 2002. Since 2003 she works in the context of `svk-architecture´, an architectural platform based in Vienna, which aims to link aspects of research, education and construction know-how. (www.svk-architecture.at) Since 1998 Sandrine von Klot has been teaching at various universities, in fall 2002 she became guest-professor at the southern Californian Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Her current work includes the following: //_content-production `Architecture + Media´ as future extension of internet based `Media Art Net´ //_research project `Ecstatic Architecture.´ supported by the BKA //_Social housing project in Vienna, 23rd district //_Public Art Project at Boerseplatz, Vienna. | |
 | Dr. Oliver Schürer schuerer@tuwien.ac.at Tel: +43 (0)1 58801 25122 Vienna University of Technology Austria, 1040 Vienna, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 7 |
| Currently doing research and teaching as assistant professor in the Department of Architecture Theory at the University of Technology Vienna. Schürer is also an architectural analyst, a curator of architecture events, a freelance author and an editor with numerous publications in Austria and abroad on digital technology and economics in architecture. His recent books include 'beyond the machine' and 'architektur:consulting'. Originally trained as master carpenter he studied architecture at the Technical University Vienna, graduated in 1999 with a diploma on the concepts of space and time in the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. In 2005, he received a doctorate in Architecture for his thesis on 'Automation and Empathy; Evolution of building automation from functionalist concepts to contemporary research concerning conscious systems'. | |
Former members
 | Dipl.-Ing. Pierre-Etienne Delon pierre-etienne.delon@edf.fr Tel: +33-1-30877330 EDF R&D France, 78400 Chatou, 8, Quai Watier |
| Pierre-Etienne Delon holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the "Ecole des Mines at St Etienne", France and spent two years in Germany specializing in Maths and Computer Science. He joined EDF R&D in 2003 and is a member of the I&C core team of EDF R&D working on the OPC Protocols, Webservices and Industrial Message System for the Power Systems. He is one the lead C++ software engineer at EDF R&D and his current interest among others is the XML Implementation in the Industrial Field. | |
 | Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Tamandl tamandl@ieee.org Tel: Austria, , |
| Thomas Tamandl was born in 1979 in Vienna/Austria. After graduating in control engineering at the HTL-Donaustadt he studied electrical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2005 he received his diploma. Since then he is staff member of the Institute of Computer Technology. His main research field is safety in automation control systems. | |