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Hamid Aghajan is director of Stanford's Ambient Intelligence Research (AIR) Lab, and Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. He has been with the department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University since 2003. Focus of research in his group is on methods and applications of multi-camera networks and Ambient Intelligence with an emphasis on behavior modeling based on activity monitoring. Specific research topics include adaptive automation in smart homes, detection of anomaly or shift in behavior in elderly care, improving user's well-being in home and office through personalized recommendations, occupancy modeling of smart buildings for resource efficiency, and avatar-based social interactions. Prior to joining Stanford, Hamid had 9 years of technical and managerial experience in high-technology companies leading product development in image processing, wireless communications, and semiconductor manufacturing systems. Hamid is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=18761364) and is a co-founder and steering committee member of the Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras ( http://www.icdsc.org). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995. |