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Name: Bashar Altakrouri ( بشار التكروري )

  • IBM.
    Managing Consultant - Internet of Things Architect

    January 2016 - Now
    Luebeck - Germany

  • Institute of Telematics at Luebeck University.
    Postdoctoral Researcher

    June 2014 - October 2015
    Luebeck - Germany

  • Institute of Telematics at Luebeck University.
    Teaching Assistant

    April 2011 - April 2014
    Luebeck - Germany
    Teaching exercises for the Mobile Multimedia course and the Communication Systems for Multimedia Applications course for Master level students. The tasks have included preparing teaching material, conducting exercises, designing and supervising exercise projects. The exercises resulted into successfully adopted projects for the local community, as in the SoundOfTheCity project “Crowd-based Noise Monitoring” that became part of “Luebeck City of Science 2012” initiative.

  • Infolab21 / Lancaster University.
    Research Associate

    February 2008 - October 2010
    Lancaster – Untied Kingdom
    Research associate at one of the top ranked institute in Britain in the ubiquitous computing field. This is a full-time job at the ALLOW - Adaptive Pervasive Work Flow project. The Allow project is funded by the European Community (the FP7-Programme) under the FET - Future and Emerging Technologies category.

  • International School of New Media at Luebeck University.
    Research Assistant

    October 2005 - August 2008
    Luebeck - Germany
    Research assistant in the school, the main job is to work in media related projects such as the “Interactive spaces” project: a Multi-User Interactive Table-top for museums, "Port-net Project", ”GTZ-Tool for ICT development”, and “Competence Transfer”.

  • International School of New Media at Luebeck University.
    Master thesis student

    April 2007 - November 2007
    Luebeck - Germany
    Ubiquitous Infrastructure For Contextualised Exhibition Services In this research thesis, a novel infrastructure, called Medient Infrastructure is designed, implemented and evaluated. Medient is aiming at enhancing the museum environment by providing visitors with personalised services on mobile and stationary devices based on the captured context.

  • Educational Technology Expertise Centre / Open University of the Netherlands.
    Internship

    October 2006 - December 2006
    Heerlen - The Netherlands
    Campus Memories: Learning with Contextualised Blogging A mobile blogging model and architecture were developed based on mobile device in combined with identification tags “Semacode” and therefore leave “blog traces” in a physical environment. Campus memories is working prototype based JAVA technology was delivered. JAX-RPC web services, CLDC mobile programming, SOAP and XML protocols were the main technology elements. The results were published in the TENCompetence workshop in Manchester 11th 12th January 2007.

  • International School of New Media at Luebeck University.
    Ubiquitous Computing project

    April 2006 - July 2006
    Luebeck - Germany
    eyeJOT Smart Campus ::Phase I eyeJOT is an interactive community bulletin system based on ubiquitous computing technologies. Users (students, faculty, etc.) can access their information about campus news, activities and a semester schedule. eyeJOT uses a combination of new technology as Bluetooth and SMS together with a new navigation metaphor combine distance and time. It provides detailed snapshots while at the same time providing overviews of life on campus.

  • PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY ( PPU ).
    Computer Laboratory Assistant

    August 2004 – October 2005
    Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
    Work as computer labs assistant. Such lab includes hardware education labs such as microprocessor lab, digital design lab, and so. Programming language labs such as C, Pascal, Object Oriented, Web Programming labs. Some other activates include network and computer maintenance.

  • PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY ( PPU ).
    Internet-Based Robot Control System Hardware Graduation Project

    March 2004 - June 2004
    Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
    Internet-Based Robot Control System Using MATLAB Hardware project. Skills Developed: Hardware control, web programming, data processing, and network.

  • PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY ( PPU ).
    Digital Signal Processing Center Software project

    September 2003 - February 2004
    Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
    Digital Signal Processing Center Software project. Skills Developed: Web programming, image and sound processing, web security issues, databases, and networks.

Education

  • Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University.
    Doctoral Student

    October 2010 - August 2014
    Luebeck - Germany
    This program at the the Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences is specially designed to train outstanding doctoral students through a structured teaching and research programme within an interdisciplinary and international environment. The PhD programme is characterized by professional supervision and quality curriculum.

  • DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst “German Academic Exchange Service” scholarship.

    April 2006- October 2007
    I have been awarded one and half year scholarship by DAAD for further study and training in Germany. I was nominated as one of ten Palestinian students for this position.

  • International School of New Media at Luebeck University.
    Degree: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Digital Media

    October 2005 - November 2007
    Luebeck, Germany
    A unique 24-month-long, postgraduate course Master of Science in Digital Media is entirely held in English. It combines a breadth of technological, economical and cultural aspects of New Media and finishes with a M.Sc. degree in Digital Media. This is not a program in computer science but its application in the media, among many other aspects. It places an emphasis on intercultural skills and interdisciplinary media competence.

  • PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY ( PPU ).
    Degree: Bachelors - Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Eng.Computer Systems Engineering Branch field

    September 1999 - June 2004
    Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
    Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Eng.Computer Systems Engineering Branch field with accumulative average of (88.2). I am one of the five first-class students in the College of Engineering and Technology.

  • AL HUSSEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL.
    Degree: High school or equivalent - Palestinian Certification of general secondary education examination

    July 1999
    Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
    Palestinian Certification of general secondary education examination With accumulative average (89).

  • AL HUSSEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL.
    Degree: High school or equivalent - Second secondary class

    July 1998
    Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
    Second secondary class with accumulative average (92.9).

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  • DFG-Funded Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences Doctoral Funding Award
    Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University.

    October 2010 - Now
    Awarded a full Scholarship to pursue a PhD degree from the DFG-Funded Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University.

  • DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst “German Academic Exchange Service” scholarship
    GDAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst “German Academic Exchange Service”.

    April 2006 - October 2007
    Awarded one and half year scholarship by DAAD for further study and training in Germany. I was nominated as one of ten Palestinian students for this position.

  • IoT Challenge Competition 2012
    The 3rd International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT2012).

    October 2012
    Awarded as the winners for IoT Challenge Competition 2012 at the 3rd International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT2012) in Wuxi, China for a contribution under the title “AmbientWeb: Bridging the Web's Cyber-physical Gap” (Darren Carlson, Bashar Altakrouri, Andreas Schrader).

  • Best Demonstration Award at IEEE Percom2013
    IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom 2013).

    March 2013
    The winners Percom2013 Best Demonstration Award at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom 2013), San Diego, California, USA for a contribution under the title “Reinventing the Share Button for Physical Spaces” (Darren Carlson, Bashar Altakrouri, Andreas Schrader).

  • Best Paper Award at IEEE iThings 2013
    IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2013).

    August 2013
    The winners of the IEEE iThings 2013 best paper award at IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2013) in Beijing, China for a contribution under the title “An Ad-hoc Smart Gateway Platform for the Web of Things” (Darren Carlson, Bashar Altakrouri, Andreas Schrader).

    • Skills

    Skill Level Years practiced Last used Web 2.0 services using RSS, SOAP, XML, JAX-RPC. Intermediate Less than 1 years 3 months or less Ubiquitous computing projects Expert More than 8 Months 1 month or less Object Oriented programming using C++,VisualBasic.NET, PHP, and JAVA. Expert More than 6 years 2 months or less Database Systems as MS Access, and MySQL. Expert More than 4 years 6 months or less CDC AND CDLC Mobile programming using JAVA MIDlet. Intermediate Less than 1 years 3 months or less

    Additional Skills

    - Full clean driving license
    - Good human communication skills.
    - Able to control and manage a group of people during work times.

    Languages

    Arabic (Native), English (Advanced) German (Intermediate).

    General Personal, Professional and Community Activities

    - Attended Good Scientific Practice Workshop , Organised by the Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University, March 2014 / Germany.
    - Attended 3rd International UBI Summer School 2012, Organised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Oulu, 25.05 - 02.06.2012 / Oulu, Finland.
    - Attended Intercultural Training Workshop II (Cross-Cultural Teamwork), Organised by Studentenwerk Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck University, 25.02.2012 / Germany.
    - Attended Ritter Speed Reading Workshop , Organised by the Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University, July 2011 / Germany.
    - Attended Grant Proposal Writing Workshop , Organised by the Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University, July 2011 / Germany.
    - Attended Intercultural Training Workshop, Organised by Studentenwerk Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck University, (13 - 15).05.2011 / Germany.
    - Attended Creative Thinking Workshop, Organised by the Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University, 18.01.2011 / Germany.
    - Participate in Crisis - "The national charity for single homeless people" 2008 / UK.
    - Community activities More than 100 Community-working hours inside and outside Palestine Polytechnic University campus / Palestine.

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