Resume

Eelco Herder

Office	L3S Research Center
	Appelstraße 4 EG
	30167 Hannover
	Germany
Email	herder@l3s.de
Phone	+49 511 76217737 (office) +49 163 1742674 (cell phone)
Born	December 14, 1977 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Gender	Male
Marital Status	Single

Employment

Postdoc (March, 2006 - Present)

L3S Research Center / Leibniz University Hannover
Hannover, Germany

I am currently involved in the European projects Grapple and Stellar, in which I work as local team leader and work package manager. I was general manager of the Prolean NoE, which finished successfully in 2008. I served as local chair of the Adaptive Hypermedia 2008 conference and as publicity chair of UMAP 2010 and UMAP 2011. Apart from project coordination, I supervise four Ph.D. students. Since 2007 I serve as the chair of the German SIG on Adaptive Systems and Interactive Systems ABIS.

My main research interests include Web personalization, user modeling, usability and HCI in general. In Grapple, we build a framework for user modeling, reasoning and profile enrichment using Web 2.0 services. Other research topics include Web usage analysis and the development of tools for Personal Information Management.

Ph.D. Candidate (October, 2001 - April, 2006)

Group of Human Media Interaction
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Twente, the Netherlands

In the Netherlands a Ph.D. program is considered a full-time job and includes various responsibilities, among which teaching activities. Courses taught are listed under 'teaching activities'.

Research Position (November, 2000 - September, 2001)

Ordina Public Utopics
Leusden, the Netherlands

During my Master's project I was employed by the company that commissioned the research.

Internship (April, 2000 - August, 2000)

Human Media Lab
Computing and Information Science
Queen's University
Kingston ON, Canada

Assignment	Nonverbal Communication for Embodied Dialogue Systems
Internship Report	Babbling with Fred
Supervisor	Dr. Ir. Roel Vertegaal

Student Jobs (1997-1999)

During my Master's program I have been involved in various teaching activities.

Education

Ph.D. (2001 - 2006)
University of Twente, the Netherlands
Topics	Adaptive Hypermedia, User Modeling, Human Factors, Web Usage Mining
Advisors	Prof. Dr. Ir. A. Nijholt, Dr. E.M.A.G. van Dijk, Dr. J. Zwiers
Thesis	Forward, Back and Home Again - Observing, Modeling and Predicting User Navigation on the Internet
Ph.D defense	April 13, 2006
B.Sc. and M.Sc. (1996 - 2001)
University of Twente, the Netherlands
Specialization	Human Media Interaction
Graduated at	December 14, 2001 (with honor)
Master's Project (November, 2000 - September, 2001)
Thesis	Architectuur voor virtuele overheidsloketten 'Conceptual Design for eGovernment Portals'
Advisors	Prof. Dr. Ir. A. Nijholt, Dr. E.M.A.G van Dijk, Ir. J. Boks
Business partner	Ordina Public Utopics, Leusden, the Netherlands
Grammar School (1990-1996)
Stedelijk Gymnasium, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

Skills and Experience

My main qualifications include extensive knowledge on user interfaces and Web personalization; programming skills in various Web languages and Java; conducting experiments and statistical analysis; data mining and graph modeling.

Research Skills

Practical skills include experiment design, basic statistical analysis, regression, factor analysis, classification, clustering, information visualization and probabilistic modeling using various programs and APIs such as SPSS, Excel, MatLab and Weka.

Management and Organizational Skills

I have gained experience in the management of European Projects on various levels (coordinator, work package leader, team leader). The management duties included budgeting and project planning. I have been involved in several FP7 project proposals.

Programming Experience

I have programmed in C, C++, Html, Java, Javascript, MySql, Modula2, Pascal, Perl and Php. I am able to learn other languages and programming environments quickly.

Teaching Activities

November 2008	Personalization and Collaboration in Technology-Enhanced Learning, research seminar
October 2008	How to Design and Report User Studies, research seminar
February 2008	Introduction to Personalization and User Modeling, research seminar
2007 – present	Mentor of four Ph.D. students
Spring 2005	Student Design Project, advisor
April 2005	Human Factors, guest lecture
Fall 2004	Student Design Project, advisor
Spring 2004	Artificial Intelligence, working classes
April 2004	Usability Course, guest lecture at Utrecht University
Spring 2003	Artificial Intelligence, working classes
Spring 2003	Internship Master's student, advisor
Student Jobs
Fall 1999	Introduction to Computer Science, lecturer
Spring 1999	Bachelor Integration Project, group supervisor
Fall 1998	Elementary Computer Skills, instructor
Spring 1998	Bachelor Integration Project, group supervisor
Fall 1997	Elementary Computer Skills, instructor

Organizational Activities

• Publicity Chair and member of the Program Committee for UMAP 2010 and UMAP 2011 – 18th and 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
• Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Architectures and Building Blocks of Web-Based User-Adaptive Systems at UMAP 2010, International Workshop on Linking of User Profiles and Applications in the Social Semantic Web at ESWC 2010 and Workshop on User Data Interoperability in the Social Web at IUI 2010
• Member of the Program Committee for UMAP 2009
• Member of the Program Committee for ECTEL 2009
• Local Chair for Adaptive Hypermedia 2008
• Chair of the German workshop on Adaptivity and User modelling in Interactive Systems ABIS 2006 and ABIS 2010

Publications

A current list of publications is available at my Publication Page.

Grants Received

2001-2005	Research grant IOP MMI 0122 from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, issued by its agency SenterNovem for a project in the Innovative Research Program on Human-Machine Interaction.
2000	Funding from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Twente for an internship at Queen's University in Kingston ON, Canada.

Honors and Awards

2007	Honorably Mentioned Paper at the CHI 2007 Conference
2006	Best Student Paper Award at the World Wide Web 2006 Conference
2006	Best Paper Award at the Mensch und Computer 2006 Conference
2005	James Chen Family Best Student Paper Award, at the User Modeling 2005 Conference.

Other Interests and Public Service

Since 2007	Chair of the German SIG ABIS within the German Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. ABIS stands for Adaptivität und Benutzermodellierung in interaktiven Softwaresystemen (Adaptivity and User modelling in Interactive Systems)
Since 2007	Co-founder and Secretary of the European Association for Technology-Enhanced Learning EATEL
Professional Memberships	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI, FB MCI)

Since 2006 I contribute to the Dutch website Vegatopia.com as webmaster, reporter and moderator. Each month this site receives about 80.000 visits from about 50.000 unique visitors. In 2009 I initiated and coordinated the relaunch of the editorial Website in the Joomla CMS. I created the current technical setup, graphical design and navigational infrastructure.

I have always been engaged in cultural activities and music in particular. I play the piano, I sing and I write songs. From age sixteen until age twenty-four I worked as a background pianist at theatre 'de Harmonie' in Leeuwarden. I regularly give performances in the amateur music scene. As a natural consequence, I have been member of various boards and committees, including:

• Co-founder of the University's piano club Utopiano in 1997. Chair of the piano club from 1998 until 2000 and from 2002 until 2003.
• General member of the organizing committee for the Cultural Introduction 2005 for freshman students at the University of Twente
• Secretary of the Anniversary Committee of the classical student choir Drienerloos Vocaal Ensemble in 2002.
• Board member of close harmony choir Musilon in 1998 (treasurer) and 1999 (secretary)

Currently I sing in the semi-professional choir Capella St. Crucis in Hannover, Germany. Further, I have a full-evening theatre program with German songs from the 1920s and 1930s ‘Die Nacht ist nicht allein zum Schlafen da’, together with professional opera singer Kristof Schliep. Together with him I also regularly perform in the vaudeville group Fette Schnecke.

Languages

Mother tongue	Dutch
Fluent in	English, German
Proficient in	French, Frisian

References

A list of referees is available upon request.