Curriculum Vitae


Personal details:

Name: Johannes Wijnandus Koolwaaij
Date and place of birth: June 22, 1973
Hardinxveld-Giessendam, The Netherlands
Address: Atalantalaan 15
7534 HK Enschede, The Netherlands
Phone number: +31 53 4850448
E-mail: koolwaaij@novay.nl
URL: http://www.koolwaaij.nl
Nationality: Dutch
Civil status: Married

Education and Employment:

High School: 1985-1991, Guido de Brès College, Rotterdam
Lyceum (Emphasis on Math, Physics and Chemistry)
University: 1991-1996, University of Technology, Delft
Technical Mathematics, Mathematical Physics
Internship: 1995, Interfaculty Reactor Institute (IRI), Delft
MSc thesis: Optimization of the reload pattern for a nuclear
reactor using perturbation theory
 
PhD project: 1996-2000, University of Nijmegen
Department of Language and Speech
PhD Thesis: Automatic Speaker Verification in Telephony: a probabilistic approach
International projects: • 2006 - 2009, smart mobile services (IYOUIT)
• 2004 - 2006, bring advances in mobile applications and services within the reach of users (MobiLife)
• 1996-1998, Caller verification in banking and telecommunication (CAVE)
• 1998-2000, Pioneering caller authentication for secure service operation (PICASSO)
• 1998-1999, Speaker recognition evaluation by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
 
Current employer: 2000-today, Novay, formerly Telematica Instituut
Projects: • IYOUIT: smart mobile services
• MobiLife: context-awareness and mobile applications
• WASP: Web architectures for services platforms
• ASPect: ASP for SME companies
• EAN Xforms: Intelligent, dynamic forms on top of XML standards
• Moda: Mobile damage assessment for experts in the insurance branche
• ChaSe: ICT in chain services
• GigaTS: networked business / transaction services
• Virtual Harbor: electronic B2B communication in the Rotterdam harbor
For a more elaborate description see my projects page
 
Publications: See my publication page

Skills:

Expertise areas: • Speaker recognition
• Signal and speech processing
• Nuclear physics
• Perturbation theory
• Mathematical modelling
• XML standardisation
• XML schema centric design
• Web services, discovery and integration
• Service oriented architectures
• Pervasive computing
• Mobile gaming
Languages: C#, Pascal, Perl, CGI , Matlab, Unix shells, HTML, XML, SVG, XSLT, JavaScript, Latex
Systems: Unix (SGI, HP, SUN), Linux, Windows
Other: • Web design and maintenance,
• Large-scale recognition experiments via WWW

Miscellaneous:

Languages: Dutch (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
Hobbies: Photography, Genealogy, History, Geocaching,
Programming, Number theory and Prime numbers

References:

Available upon request

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