curriculum vitae

personal information

name:	Timm Linder
date of birth:	January 28, 1987 in Duisburg, Germany
e-mail:
internet:	http://www.timmlinder.de

current occupation

December 2010 –
Back again as a (student) research assistant working on hybrid recommender systems at the chair of Interactive Systems at the University Duisburg-Essen, after finishing my internship at Microsoft Corporation. Also supervising a student software project in the winter term 2011/12.

October 2006 – January 2012
Studied Applied Computer Sciences (Angewandte Informatik) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Currently waiting to receive my diploma (Diplom II) after finishing my thesis in January 2012.

past education and work experience

July 2010 – September 2010
Industrial internship at Microsoft Corporation in Bellevue/Redmond, WA, as a Software Development Engineer In Test working in the User Experience team of the search engine Bing.

April 2010 – June 2010
Industrial internship at HSBC Global Asset Management, Dusseldorf (Germany), in Java development.

April 2008 – March 2010
Student assistant on a research project in the working group Interactive Systems, University Duisburg-Essen, involving Java development in the field of recommender systems.

October 2007 – February 2008
Teaching assistant for a workshop in “Discrete Mathematics I” at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

1997 – 2006
Education for the university entrance qualification (German “Abitur”) at Franz-Haniel-Gymnasium, Duisburg, Germany. Finished with highest distinction (German grade 1.0).

abilities

spoken languages:	German (mother tongue) English (fluently) French (basics) Obtained the Certificate in Advanced English issued by the University of Cambridge in June 2005 (Grade A).
programming skills:	Java C/C++ C# Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic 6
machine learning and computer vision:	Matlab (+Image Processing & Optimization Toolbox) OpenCV 2 Apache Mahout/Taste
web technologies:	Java Server Faces 2.0; PrimeFaces; JSP Spring Framework Java Persistence API (JPA), Hibernate, MySQL Web services via JAX-WS, JAXB, SOAP, REST HTML, CSS, JavaScript
development tools:	Eclipse SDK, MS Visual Studio Apache Ant, Maven; Hudson, Redmine Subversion (SVN) CMake, Doxygen
multimedia skills:	OpenGL, OpenSceneGraph XNA Game Studio 3.0 Basic knowledge of DirectX, Cg shaders, Unity3D engine Qt 4 UI Framework

awards and honors

• Sparkassenpreis 2011 der Sparkasse Duisburg for excellent study performances
• Scholarship of the state of Northrhine-Westfalia (2009-2011)
• 1st prize at the Newcomer Award of the German Game Developer Award (2006)
• Graduated best in class 2006 with the general qualification for university entrance
  (Abitur) at Franz-Haniel-Gymnasium, Duisburg
• 1st prize at the Duisburger Mathematikwettbewerb (regional round of mathematics
  olympiad) in my age class (2002)

publications

Click here to see a list of publications at my university's document library.

Removing Camera Shake from Hand-held Photography using Natural Image Statistics
Linder, T.
Diploma thesis. Chair of Intelligent Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, January 2012.

Nutzeradaptive Routenführung in Navigationssystemen
Münter, D.; Hussein, T.; Linder, T.; Hofmann, J.; Ziegler, J.
Eibl, Maximilian (Hrsg.): Mensch & Computer 2011. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, p. 39–48.

A framework and an architecture for context-aware group recommendations
Hussein, T.; Linder, T.; Gaulke, W.; Ziegler, J.
Herrmann, T. & Kolfschoten G. (Hrsg.): CRIWG '10: Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Collaboration and Technology, Heidelberg: Springer.

Improving collaboration by using context views
Hussein, T.; Gaulke, W.; Linder, T.; Ziegler, J.
Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL), 1st Workshop in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2010

Context-Aware Recommendations On Rails
Hussein, T.; Linder, T.; Gaulke, W.; Ziegler, J.
Workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS-2009)
In conjunction with the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, New York, NY, USA

projects and references

See my projects page for further information.