Starting in 2007, I got a research position at Philips Research, within the User Experiences Group (former Media Interaction Group) of Reinder Haakma. I was member of the Computational Intelligence (former Interactive Algorithms) cluster headed by Steffen Pauws. In January 2010 groups were reorganized and I worked within the Brain, Body & Behavior Group, headed by Ans Saalberg. In 2011 I moved to the Healthcare Information Management Group of Sybo Dijkstra.
Starting December 2010, I am also pursuing a PhD on the topic of Modeling Affective States Using LVQ Methods, at Groningen University.
In my first 4 years at Philips Research, my work focused on the Lifestyle domain and was around the topic of measuring emotions and stress using physiological measurements (e.g., skin conductance, electrocardiogram, respiration measurements). Key elements in this work are automated feature extraction and interpretation of physiological signals, including classification of interpreted signals, as well as modeling of emotions. Part of this work has been done within the European project named REFLECT, in which I contributed to a demonstrator system, built into a Ferrari sports car.
In 2011 I moved to the Medical domain and started working on the topic of Clinical Decision Support (CDS), focusing at Readmission Management and Discharge Planning in particular for Heart Failure (HF) patients. This work comprises the development of intelligent algorithms and models to quantify patient's risks.
My expertise is in the area of Pattern Recognition/Classification, Machine Learning, Clustering, Data Mining; in particular white-box methods (e.g., prototype based classifying), Signal Processing, Signal Interpretation, Feature Extraction, Modeling, Algorithm Development, Clinical Decision Support, Clinical Research, Affective Computing, Physiological Measurements.
