Research

The academic peer review process can often be frustrating — not only for junior members of the research community. In this blog post, in the name of full transparency, I walk through a particular example of a process that took nearly 3 years from start to final publication. The main lessons are that iterations help the quality of a paper, and that persistence can pay off (but no guarantees).

[Finished Jan. 2008] Research into context-based device-to-device authentication.

[Finished Nov. 2004] PhD project on predicting mobile user context

[Finished Sept. 2014] Open source Ubiquitous Authentication Toolkit

[Finished Jan. 2008] Relative spatial positioning

[Running] High-bandwidth Tor exit node at JKU/INS for research on use of anonymization

[Finished Sept. 2017] Research Center for User-friendly Secure Mobile Environments

Introduction For an upcoming research project, I needed to get data streams from simple 2-axis accelerometers. There are usually two types of accelerometers: one type with analog outputs that need an ADC (analog-digitial converter) to sample, and another type with pulse-width modulation outputs.

After finishing my doctoral studies in technical sciences with my final viva voce on 18.11.2004, I have been honored in my promotion (PhD graduation) on 29.11.2005 by the president of the Austrian republic.