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Dr.-Ing. Waltenegus Dargie
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I joined the Chair for Computer Networks, Technical University of Dresden, as a faculty member, in the fall of 2005. Prior to my current position, I have been working as a Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kassel, between September 2002 and December 2006; and at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (March 2001 - March 2002).
My research activities are related to communication, intelligence and interaction. The communication aspect of my research activities focus on establishing resource efficient networks. These networks may consist of mobile nodes as well as embedded systems. They can be established with a premeditated long-term plan or in an impromptu fashion to support some evanescent goal. In either case, besides supporting the task for which they are established, they should be able to utilise resources efficiently, deliver high quality service, and require low management cost. In this category, while all type of computer networks are my concerns, wireless networks and wireless sensor networks are my main research focus. The intelligence aspect of my research activities deals with enabling computing devices and infrastructures to undertake intelligent decisions. Intelligent decision making is a result of relevant data gathered from ones computing environment and their meaningful interpretation. The specific research direction focuses on context-awareness, model-based digital signal processing and logic-based as well as probabilistic reasoning. The interaction aspect of my research activities focus on simplifying users, particularly mobile users, interaction with computers. I approach this concern by bringing context-awareness into focus. Context is employed to identify the social and conceptual settings of the user and to determine the suitable interaction techniques that cause minimum distraction and effort. Understanding these prerequisites leads to the dynamic identification and configuration of the right services.
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