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Matthias Stevens – Curriculum Vitae
Address Puinstraat 24, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Mobile phone +32 0486 17 04 92
E-mail matthias.stevens@gmail.com / mstevens@vub.ac.be
Date & place of birth 30 th of September, 1983; Ghent, Belgium
Nationality Belgian
Marital status Unmarried
Education
2007 – 2011 (expected) PhD in Science (Doctor in de Wetenschappen)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
� Provisional thesis title: “Participatory sensing for sustainable societies: The case of
urban noise pollution”
2004 – 2007 Master in Computer Science (Licentiaat in de Informatica)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
� 3 rd year score (graduation): Summa cum laude (Grootste Onderscheiding), 87.85%
� 2 nd year score: Summa cum laude (Grootste Onderscheiding), 85.85%
� 1 st year score: Magna cum laude (Grote Onderscheiding), 81.4%
� Minor in Geography, subjects: Cartography, GIS, Remote Sensing
� Master’s thesis: “Design Structure Matrices for Software Development”
2001 – 2004 Bachelor in Applied Computer Science (Graduaat Toegepaste Informatica)
University College Ghent (Hogeschool Gent), Belgium
� 3 rd year score (graduation): Magna cum laude (Grote Onderscheiding), 83.8%
� 2 nd year score: Summa cum laude (Grootste Onderscheiding), 86.8%
� 1 st year score: Magna cum laude (Grote Onderscheiding), 82.3%
� Graduation project: “PASES 2004: Processing & Visualising Meteorological
Measurement Data”
1995 – 2001 High school, profile Science-Mathematics
Koninklijk Atheneum Mariakerke, Ghent, Belgium
Work experience
October 2007 – … Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO - Vlaanderen),
PhD grant (Aspirant mandaat)
� Affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Faculty of Science, Dept. of
Computer Science; Responsibilities:
� Pre-doc researcher (PhD student) in the BrusSense group, hosted by the
Software Languages & Artificial Intelligence Labs, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Luc Steels
& Prof. Dr. Theo D’Hondt
� Teaching assistant in Bachelor programme Computer Science
� PR duties
Spring 2009 Artists collective Nogo Voyages, Paris, France
& Autumn 2008 Development of the “Échelle 1” system which offers GPS-guided in-situ soundscape
explorations. The system was used by Nogo Voyages for the following works:
� “Moillesulaz 1:1” presented at the Biennale Version Beta in Geneva, Oct-Dec 2008
� “Les Halles: Architecture potentielle échelle 1” in Paris, 2009-2010
Internships
August-Oct 2009 Sony Computer Science Laboratory (CSL), Paris, France

& June-Dec 2008 Research trainee, “NoiseTube” project, participatory sensing system for noise
Autumn 2006 Programming Technology Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Research trainee, subject: Aspect-Oriented Software Development and Design
Structure Matrixes
Spring 2004 University of Córdoba, Spain (through Erasmus exchange programme as part of
education at University College Ghent)
Software developer, “PASES 2004” project, analysis tool for metrological data to
support feasibility studies of solar energy applications in Andalucía, Spain
Summer jobs
2006 Tele Atlas, Ghent; Data handler
2005 Sidmar NV (now part of Arcelor-Mittal steel concern), Ghent; Programmer
2001 – 2004 Multiple summer jobs in different companies and a museum, all in Ghent
Research experience
Publications
Journals
� N. Maisonneuve, M. Stevens and B. Ochab. Participatory noise pollution monitoring using mobile phones. In Information Polity,
15(1-2):51-71. Special Issue on “Government 2.0: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government". August 2010.
Book contributions
� M. Stevens and E. D'Hondt, NoiseTube & BrusSense: Participatory sensing for sustainable urban life. In We Can Change the
Weather: 100 Cases in Energy Efficiency to Start Doing So, Eds. Marleen Wynants, p.92-93, Crosstalks / ASP-VUBPress, 2010.
Conferences
� N. Maisonneuve, M. Stevens, M. E. Niessen, P. Hanappe and L. Steels. Citizen Noise Pollution Monitoring. Proceedings of the 10th
Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2009), May 2009.
� N. Maisonneuve, M. Stevens, M. E. Niessen and L. Steels. NoiseTube: Measuring and mapping noise pollution with mobile phones.
Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE 2009),
Thessaloniki, Greece. May 28-29, 2009.
Workshops
� M. Stevens and E. D'Hondt, Crowdsourcing of Pollution Data using Smartphones. Workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing, held at
the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 26-29, 2010.
� J. Vallejos, M. Stevens, E. D'hondt, N. Maisonneuve, W. De Meuter, T. D'hondt and L. Steels. Context-aware Resource Sharing for
People-centric Sensing. First International Workshop on Software Research and Climate Change (WSRCC-1), part of Onward! 2009
(co-located with OOPSLA 2009), Orlando, USA, October 26, 2009.
� N. Maisonneuve, M. Stevens and L. Steels. Measure and map noise pollution with your mobile phone. DIY for CHI workshop held at
the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), Boston, USA, April. 4-9, 2009.
� M. Stevens, A. Kellens, J. Brichau, and T. D'Hondt. Managing Software Dependencies using Design Structure Matrices. 6th BElgian-
NEtherlands software eVOLution workshop (BENEVOL 2007), Namur, Belgium, December 13-14, 2007.
Posters
� E. D'Hondt and M. Stevens. Community Memories for Sustainable Urban Living. International Conference on Green Computing
(ICGREEN 2010), Athens, Greece, July 29-31, 2010.
� N. Maisonneuve, M. Stevens and B. Ochab. NoiseTube: Citizen Noise Pollution Monitoring. Sony CSL Paris Open House 2009, Paris,
France, October 8-9, 2009.
Event organisation
� ESF Exploratory Workshop on The Internet of Things for a Sustainable Future, Vielsalm, Belgium, May 10-12, 2011. Co-organiser.
� Sony CSL Paris Open House, Paris, France, October 8-9, 2009. Member of organisation team.
� International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'08), Brussels, Belgium, March 31st-April 4th, 2008.
Member of local organisation team.
Extracurricular activities
2006 – 2007 Student representative on Board of the Department Of Computer Science
(Vakgroepraad Informatica), Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2005 – 2007 Board member at Infogroep, the fraternity organisation of Computer Science students
at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Spring 2006: Vice-president; Spring 2007: Coordinator of
Jobfair event
2003 – 2004 Student representative in educational committee Applied Computer Science
(Opleidingscommissie Toegepaste Informatica), Hogeschool Gent
2003 – 2006 Board member and Secretary of youth organisation “Walhalla”, Ghent
1999 – 2000 Member of the student counsel at high school Koninklijk Atheneum Mariakerke, Gent
Skills
Languages
Dutch (mother tongue), English (advanced), French (advanced), German (notions)
Software
Windows (all client versions since v3.11), Mac OS X, Linux
MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook & Visio), OpenOffice, LaTeX, BibTeX
MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, XMLSpy, VisualWorks, CVS, Subversion
MS SQL Server, MySQL Database Server, PostgresSQL server
ArcGIS, Idrisi Kilimanjaro, PostGIS, KML
Programming, modelling & query languages
Java, AspectJ, C#, C, C++, Visual Basic, Scheme, Ruby, Smalltalk, COBOL, Pascal, UML, SQL
Software development frameworks/platforms
Java SE, Java ME, Android, .NET
Web technologies
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, JSP, ASP.NET, XML
Interests
Ubiquitous computing, software development frameworks, participative sensing & crowdsourcing in general,
cartography, GIS, economics, geopolitics
Hobbies
Music, travelling, gym, swimming, cycling, skiing