Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser

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List of publications of Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser

Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser is head of the Telecooperation Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Informatics Dept. The Lab works on smart ubiquitous computing environments for the ‘pervasive Internet’ in three research fields: middleware and infrastructures, novel multimodal interaction techniques, and IT security and civil security. He is also heading the ‘RBG’ division for e-Learning and computing services at the department. Directorate member of CASED, the center for advanced security research, he is heading the Secure Services division and a special group on civil security. Max is founder and speaker of a campus wide center of research excellence on E-Learning and of a corresponding graduate school for about 20 PhD students funded by the National Funding Agency DFG. DFG also funds a research unit on Peer-to-Peer networks where he is a member. Further multilateral projects, e.g., on the Internet-of-Services, smart products, and civil security, are funded by the EU, German ministries, and industry. His academic and technology transfer appointments include, e.g., the chair of the academic steering committee at SAP Research, CEC Darmstadt lab.

Max has about 25 years of experience in research and teaching in areas related to Ubiquitous Computing (UC), Networks and Distributed Systems, and E-Learning. He held permanent or visiting professorships by the Universities of Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Linz, Darmstadt, Montréal, Sophia Antipolis, and San Diego (UCSD). In 1993, he founded the TeCO institute (www.teco.edu) in Karlsruhe, Germany, that became one of the pace-makers for Ubiquitous Computing research in Europe. Max regularly publishes in Ubiquitous and Distributed Computing, HCI, Multimedia, and E-Learning conferences and journals and authored or co-authored more than 280 publications. He is a reviewer for some 15 conferences per year and organizer of several annual conferences, member of editorial boards or guest editor in journals like Pervasive Computing, ACM Multimedia, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Web Engineering, Distance Learning Technology, etc.

A short CV in PDF format is available here.

Max is head of the Telecooperation Division within the Informatics Department. He is also heading the division that provides central computing services and E-Learning support to the department, named  RBG. Max is founder, co-director and speaker of the campus wide center of research excellence on E-Learning and of the graduate program (research training group, RTG) on feedback based quality improvement in E-learning funded by the National Funding Agency DFG; he is participating in several other centers of research excellence and DFG funded programs. He is co-chairing an initiative called Ambient Semantic Computing that fosters the marriage of Ubiquitous Computing with Semantic and NLP methods. Max has been appointed to a number of technology transfer functions such as the academic steering committee of the SAP CEC Darmstadt research lab.

Development support for next generation distributed (“Internet”) applications, mainly in the following areas:  ubiquitous computing, ambient and mobile computing and commerce, ambient semantic computing, eLearning, multimodal interaction, distributed multimedia and continuous media, hypertext/hypermedia and telecooperation context-awareness and pervasive security.

The enabling technologies applied for the above comprise distributed object-oriented programming,

event-based and peer2peer infrastructures, audio/video processing,machine learning and NLP.