Hi ! 
  Welcome to my homepage on my private server, cubeos.org. 

Work:

From January 2014 to August 2024, I worked for Microsoft in several positions. I was part of the early Azure commercialisation and helped customers and partners to get Linux up and running as early as 2014 while it wasn't yet officially supported. I was then part of Microsoft DPE (and later DX) working with Azure developers in Germany. I then focussed on Azure IoT and Windows IoT and helped customers and partners to get their hardware up and running.

In 2019, I moved into a new role as Director of Business Strategy in the Microsoft Business Development, Strategy and Venture organization. I was part of the AI and Emerging technologies team where I was the technical guy working with a great team of Business Development colleagues. We started and ran interesting partnerships that you may have heard of (OpenAI, Mistral, Nvidia,...) and created a few new offerings on top of Azure AI such as Model-as-a-Service and Model-as-a-Platform. We also ran the Microsoft AI Co-Innovation labs.

As a side job, I represented Microsoft on the board of directors of the OPC Foundation and in 2022, I was asked to lead the board. As I left Microsoft in 2024, I also left the board, but I still run the OPC for AI working group at the OPC Foundation

From September 2024 to February 2025, I ran the technical strategy team in the Central AI organization, building partnerships and working on the future of Edge AI.

And now, in March 2025, it's time to open a new chapter...

 

Science:

From October 1st, 2007 to January 2014, I worked at Microsoft Advanced Technology Labs Europe (archive link) (formerly known as Microsoft EMIC) in Aachen, Germany. In the meantime, the lab has moved to Munich.

My research topic was next-generation devices and system software, including mobile and wearable devices.

From August 1st, 2004, to September 30, 2007, I was the scientific lead of the wearable computing group at the chair of Prof. Herzog at the TZI.

The Wearable Computing (archive link) group works on various theoretical and applied research topics in wearable computing, among others wearable user interfaces, social networks, context detection and reasoning, human-human and human-machine cooperation.

Wearable User Interfaces

With the wearable computing group, I worked on a portable user interface framework for mobile and wearable devices. It defines the user interfaces in an abstract and device-independent way, therefore allowing device-specific and context-specific adaptation of the interface. This is an outcome of the WearIT@Work EU Project (archive link).

We have also designed a number of input devices for wearable computing such as the GestureBand and the WinspectGlove. A local copy of the information can be also found here

Indoor Localization and Mapping

With Stephane Beauregard and Burcu Cinaz, I worked on various approaches for context recognition for wearables, including the so-called HeadSLAM mechanism for LiDAR-based simultaneous localization and mapping for pedestrians using a head-mounted LiDAR and IMU.

Teaching:

At the moment, I am not teaching

In the past, I was supervising a number of Diploma, Bachelor and Master Theses at Uni Bremen.

I am occasionally teaching my course on Wearable Computing at the department of computer science of the University Bremen .

Other course material of my previous courses at both the CS department of the Bremen University and at the Jacobs University (formerly called International University Bremen) can be found here.