Kristof Van Laerhoven
Professor at Universität Siegen
Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolKristof Van Laerhoven is a professor and researcher with 14+ years of experience specializing in novel sensing applications, wireless sensor networks, and algorithms that interpret wearable and mobile sensor data. Based in Siegen, Germany, he has held professorships and led research groups at multiple German universities, including a DFG Emmy Noether research group at TU Darmstadt. His work spans practical systems—augmented mobile phones, body-worn activity recognition, and embedded interfaces—to the underlying signal-processing and interpretation algorithms that make those systems usable. He combines deep academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on experimentation in embedded sensing, often rethinking human–computer interaction by replacing traditional mouse-keyboard paradigms. An understated strength is his sustained focus on translating low-level sensing innovations into real-world interaction modalities.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Kandidaat, Computer Science, Kandidaat, Computer Science at UHasseltLicentiaat, Computer Science, Licentiaat, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit BrusselPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Lancaster University
Dutch, French, German, English
Github Skills (16)
lstm-neural-networks10
har9
human-activity-recognition8
logger7
deep-learning7
pytorch6
machine-learning6
logging6
loader4
risk-assessment3
javascript3
sift3
revit-api3
validation1
validate1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kristofvl/BangleApps
Nov 2020 - Feb 2024
Bangle.js App Loader (and Apps)
Contributions:6 PRs, 226 pushes in 3 years 3 months
javascriptloader
kristofvl/usi
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:279 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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