Albrecht Schmidt (computer scientist)


Albrecht Schmidt is a computer scientist best known for his work in ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, and the tangible user interface. He is a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where he joined the faculty in 2017.

Biography

Professional career

Albrecht Schmidt received an M.Sc. in computing from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996. His master thesis was on modular neural networks. In 1997, he finished his masters in computer science at the University of Ulm. As a research assistant Schmidt was working towards a PhD at Telecooperation Office, University of Karlsruhe from 1998 to 2001. He continued his study at Lancaster University to finish his PhD. Schmidt's PhD thesis was titled Ubiquitous Computing - Computing in Context. Schmidt transferred to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2003, where he led the Emmy-Noether Research Group 'Embedded Interaction'. He was appointed professor for applied computer science/media informatics at the University of Bonn and simultaneously served as department manager at the Fraunhofer Institute 'Institut für Intelligente Informations- und Analysesysteme '. From October 2007 to December 2010, he took the position as chair for pervasive computing at University of Duisburg-Essen. From January 2011 to August 2017, Schmidt directed the 'Human-Computer Interaction' research group at the Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme at University of Stuttgart. Since October 2017, he has been the head professor of the research group 'Human Centered Ubiquitous Media Group' at the Department of Computer Science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Recognition

Schmidt was elected to the CHI Academy in 2018.

Selected bibliography