Prof. Stefan Knauth

Stefan Knauth received a degree in physics from Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany, in 1996 and a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, in 2001. From 2005 to 2008, he was a senior research assistant and deputy head of the CEESAR Centre (now iHomeLab), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Lucerne, Switzerland. His research was focused on ambient-assisted living and smart energy. His earlier stations include a 3GPP System Engineer with Siemens ICM/ICN, Leipzig, and a System Engineer for space research payloads in cooperation with ESA and Kayser-Threde (now OHB System AG), Munich, Germany. Since 2008, he has been full professor of Computer Science with HFT Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany. His research interests include indoor positioning, the Internet of Things (IoT), low-resource embedded systems, building automation, and mobile applications.