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Curriculum Vitae

Matthias Kovatsch has a background in electrical engineering and computer science through an interdisciplinary study course. He received the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. (equiv. to M.Sc.) from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in November 2008. During his studies, he was working with Siemens Pte Ltd Singapore and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS). At the latter, he also conducted his diploma thesis, developing a middleware and application framework for medical wireless sensor networks. Since March 2009, he is a PhD student at ETH Zurich, where he joined the Distributed Systems Group of the Institute for Pervasive Computing. From March to June 2011, he was also a visiting researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS).

Research Interests

 

 

Projects

Copper (Cu) CoAP user-agent for Firefox

CoAP JavaScript implementation

Erbium (Er) REST Engine for Contiki

CoAP C implementation

Californium (Cf) CoAP framework in Java

CoAP Java implementation

Actinium (Ac) App-server for Californium

CoAP Web scripting

Publications

• Matthias Kovatsch
  Actinium (Ac) and the Thin Server Architecture.
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2012). Wuxi, China, October 2012
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  Demo abstract
  
  
• Matthias Kovatsch, Martin Lanter, Simon Duquennoy
  Actinium: A RESTful Runtime Container for Scriptable Internet of Things Applications.
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2012). Wuxi, China, October 2012
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Christian Lerche, Klaus Hartke, Matthias Kovatsch
  Industry Adoption of the Internet of Things: A Constrained Application Protocol Survey.
  Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Service Oriented Architectures in Converging Networked Environments (SOCNE 2012). Kraków, Poland, September 2012
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Matthias Kovatsch, Simon Mayer, Benedikt Ostermaier
  Moving Application Logic from the Firmware to the Cloud: Towards the Thin Server Architecture for the Internet of Things.
  Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS 2012). Palermo, Italy, July 2012
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Matthias Kovatsch, Simon Duquennoy, Adam Dunkels
  A Low-Power CoAP for Contiki.
  Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2011). Valencia, Spain, October 2011
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Benedikt Ostermaier, Matthias Kovatsch, Silvia Santini
  Connecting Things to the Web using Programmable Low-power WiFi Modules.
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2011). San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2011
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Matthias Kovatsch
  Demo Abstract: Human–CoAP Interaction with Copper.
  Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2011). Barcelona, Spain, June 2011
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Matthias Kovatsch
  Firm Firmware and Apps for the Internet of Things.
  Proceedings of the 2nd ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications (SESENA 2011). Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2011
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Matthias Kovatsch, Markus Weiss, Dominique Guinard
  Embedding Internet Technology for Home Automation.
  Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2010). Bilbao, Spain, September 2010
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  
• Benedikt Ostermaier, Fabian Schlup, Matthias Kovatsch
  Leveraging the Web of Things for Rapid Prototyping of UbiComp Applications.
  In: Jakob E. Bardram, Marc Langheinrich, Khai N. Truong, Paddy Nixon (Eds.): Adjunct Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2010). ACM, pp. 375-376, New York, USA, September 2010
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  Demo Abstract
  
  
• Christopher Claus, Walter Stechele, Matthias Kovatsch, Josef Angermeier, Jürgen Teich
  A Comparison of Embedded Reconfigurable Video-processing Architectures.
  Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2008). Heidelberg, Germany, September 2008
  Abstract, BibTeX, Paper (.pdf)
  
  

Selected Talks

• CoAP, Copper, and Embedded Web Resources
  Presentation at the Internet of Things Zurich Meetup, Zurich, Switzerland.
  
  
• A Low-Power CoAP for Contiki
  Presentation at the IEEE Workshop on Internet of Things Technology and Architectures (IoTech 2011), Valencia, Spain.
  
  
• Connecting Things to the Web using Programmable Low-power WiFi Modules
  Presentation at the Second International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2011), San Francisco, CA, USA.

Theses Supervised

Project Wiki

All projects are documented in the Project Wiki. It also offers general information on theses and their requirements.

Available Projects

Available Projects
Type	Title		Supervisor	Semester
B/M/L	The Copper (Cu) CoAP user-agent for Chrome		Matthias Kovatsch	available
B/M/L	Automated Integration Testing for Embedded Web Services		Matthias Kovatsch	available
B/M/L	Visualizations for Embedded Web Resources		Matthias Kovatsch	available

Assigned Projects

Assigned Projects
Type	Title	Student	Supervisor	Semester
M	Scalability for IoT Cloud Services	Martin Lanter	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 13
B	Enriching IoT Cloud Platforms with CoAP	Adrian Kündig	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 13

Completed Projects

Completed Projects
Type	Title	Student	Supervisor	Semester
M	Opportunistic Sensing for Domestic Smart Energy Systems	Nico Eigenmann	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 12
M	A Smart City Infrastructure	Francesco Corazza	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 12
M	Securing the Constraint Application Protocol	Stefan Jucker	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 12
B	Application Kernels for Smart Home Environments	Gianluca Vinzens	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 12
B	Extending the eMeter Framework with CoAP	Stefan Willi	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 12
B	The Networked Alarm Clock	David Itten	Matthias Kovatsch	HS 11
B	Actinium: An App Server for the Smart Home	Martin Lanter	Matthias Kovatsch	HS 11
L	Californium: A CoAP Framework in Java	Dominique Im Obersteg, Daniel Pauli	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 11
L	Prototyping Smart Appliances	Christof Baumann, Nico Eigenmann	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 11
L	Mit IPv6 die physikalische Welt erreichen IPv6 Connectivity to the Physical World	Andreas Börrnert, Dominik Menzi	Matthias Kovatsch	FS 10

Teaching

HS 2012

• 252-0213-00 Distributed Systems ("Verteilte Systeme", lecture in German)

HS 2011

• 252-0213-00 Distributed Systems ("Verteilte Systeme", lecture in German)

HS 2010

• 252-0213-00 Distributed Systems ("Verteilte Systeme", lecture in German)

FS 2010

• 251-0314-00 Distributed Systems Seminar (topic "Smart Energy")

HS 2009

• 252-0205-00 Distributed Systems ("Verteilte Systeme", lecture in German)