TRANS is home to a wealth of creative research with a focus on applicability. The following PhD candidates are currently a part of the TRANS research team:
1. Edgar van Boven
Edgar van Boven
Edgar van Boven studied electronics and IT at HTS Vlissingen. Though tempted to start an adventurous life as a jazz pianist, he graduated in 1987. After military service as a sergeant in a telecommunications battalion, he entered KPN. Initially telephony dominated his career from various viewpoints starting with hardware & software engineering, via operational network planning to architecture & program management. In the late 90′s he started to work on the evolution to voice over packet in the former Unisource Business Networks environment within KPN. In 2001, he entered the Delft University of Technology as a guest lecturer. Today Edgar is active in the area of network transition and technological innovation. Currently, he combines his work for KPN with a Trans-sector Innovation Framework thesis at the Delft University of Technology.
2. Antonio Madureira
Antonio Madureira
Antonio Madureira graduated with a Licenciatura degree in Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto and with a MSc degree in Telecommunications at Delft University of Technology. After internship experiences in the Broadband Access and Home Networks department at TNO and in the Corporate Strategy and Innovation department at Royal Dutch KPN, he is currently working for a PhD thesis in the Telecommunications department at Delft University of Technology, under the promotion of Prof. Nico Baken.
Extra Academic Activities
In his free time, António enjoys playing tennis and football, watch movies, read classical Portuguese books, listening to music, travel, etc.
3. Yue Lu
Yue Lu
Yue Lu, born on March 6th, 1982, was a PhD student in the Network Architecture and Services (NAS) Group, Department of Telecommunication, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She graduated as a B.Sc. student in Electronics and Information Engineering Department at HUAZHONG University of Science & Technology in July
2004. After she obtained her M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 2006, she started her PhD research, working on multimedia streaming services and networking performance analysis. Since 2004, she has been researching on P2P systems, real-time Internet streaming services (e.g. TV
streaming, Video on Demand, Audio/Video Conferencing), their Quality of Service and
Quality of Experience, etc.
Yue defended her dissertation on October 21st, 2010. She works for Vodafone in Maastricht.
Extra Experiences:
In her high school period, Yue overpassed the 7th level (totally 10 levels) of playing the piano in China, and got national prize of my music compositions, and became national secondary athlete in the swimming item.
In her Master period, Yue was a volunteer in Rotterdam Chinese language school, teaching Dutch children chinese language in weekends for two years.
4. Javad Vazifehdan
Javad Vazifehdan
Background
Javad Vazifehdan received his B.Sc. from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran in electrical engineering in 2002 with honor. Then he immediately started his M.Sc. in the field of communication systems in University of Tehran, Iran. In the second year of his M.Sc. and while he was doing his master project, he started working as a part time engineer in Frineh company in Tehran. The focus of his work in the company was software development of Fieldbus protocol, a real time communication protocol for process control, suing Rational Rose development suit. During the master project he worked on MIMO cooperative networks and he received his degree in 2005. After graduation he continued his job as a full time employee in Farineh and he and his colleagues succeed to get certificate for the developed protocol. While during his master project he worked on the physical layer of communication protocols, development of MAC and higher layers of a communication protocol during his carrier provided him a valuable insight about the different layers of communication protocols. This motivated him to pursue his PhD in the area of networking. In January 2007, he started his work as a PhD candidate in Wireless and Mobile Communications (WMC) group at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Honors
· The first rank in GPA for two semesters amongst B.Sc. students in the filed of electronics in the faculty of electrical engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 1998-2002.
· The 65th rank amongst almost 5000 competitors in the Iranian graduate entrance exam in electrical engineering, 2002.
· The 2th rank in GPA among graduated M.Sc. students in communication systems field in University of Tehran, 2004
Hobbies
He is really interested in playing football and handball. When he was younger he was also interested in watching football matches, but not anymore. Instead, he became more interested in watching movies and TV series. Reading story books and poems (Hafiz) and traveling are his other hobbies.
Contact Information
Visiting address:
HB 19.150, Mekelweg 4,
2628 CD Delft, the Netherlands
Postal address
P.O. Box 5031
2600 GA, Delft, the Netherlands
Phone number
Office: (+31)015-27-86446
Email:
5. Ebisa Negeri
Ebisa Negeri received his BSc. in Electrical Engineering from Technology Faculty of Addis Ababa University (www.aau.edu.et), and his MSc. in Computer Engineering from Delft University of Technology (www.tudelft.nl). Currently, he is doing PhD research in the Telecommunication department at Delft University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. dr. Nico Baken and dr. Fernando Kuipers.
6. Sam Solaimani
Sam finalized his bachelor program at University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, doing a study on knowledge acquisition. Next, he graduated with a MSc degree (with honors) from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, having conducted a thesis study on Business IT Alignment. Currently, he is conducting a PhD research on Business Model/Business Process Model (BM/BPM) alignment at Faculty of Techology, Policy and Management.
7. Fatemeh Nikayin
Fatima received her B.Eng. degree with honors in Hardware Engineering from Faculty of Computer Science, Azad university, Tehran, Iran. Her final year project during her bachelor study was on security of wireless networks. Fatima received her M.Sc. degree with honors in Computer Science from Faculty of Computer Science, University of Malaya, Malaysia. The topic of her thesis was “Adopting a theoretical method for development of service-oriented information system.” Currently, she is working on her PhD research at Faculty of Techology, Policy and Management.
8. Norbert Blenn
Norbert started his PhD research in May 2010. He will be conducting his work on social network analysis under the supervision of Prof. dr. ir. Piet van Mieghem at the group for Network Architectures and Services.
Norbert received his degree of Diplom Medieninformatiker in 2007 from the University of Dresden. His thesis was titled “Development of a portable stereo video recording system for presentation at a stereo projection screen.”
During 10.2007 – 02.2010, Norbert worked as a research assistant at the chair for computer graphics and visualization at the faculty for computer science of the Technical University Dresden. He worked on the project called “ZoomableCell” in which a zoomable user interface for exploring cellbiological data should be developed.
