Dominique Guinard

Current

Co-Founder at Web of Things.com
PhD. Candidate at ETH Zurich
Research Associate at SAP Research Zurich

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Past

Research Associate at Auto-ID Labs, ETH Zurich
External Scientific Collaborator at Software Engineering Group, Unifr
Teaching Assistant at Pervasive and Artificial Intelligence Group (PAI)

Teacher at Swiss School for Informatics Ecole Suisse D'Informatique
Team Manager and Owner at GMIPSoft.com
Internship at Sun Microsystems
Internet Assistent at Dartfish

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Education

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Lancaster University
Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg

Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg

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Dominique Guinard’s Summary

Dominique Guinard’s Specialties:

Software engineering in the context of ubiquitous and business environments.

Dominique Guinard’s Experience

Co-Founder

Web of Things.com

(Research industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)
PhD. Candidate

ETH Zurich

(Educational Institution; ETH; Research industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

PhD. Candidate at the Institute for Pervasive Computing, Distributed Systems group, ETH Zurich.
Research interest in Web-inspired and lightweight architectures for a global and open Web of Things (smart objects, sensor networks and machines): webofthings.com.
Research Associate

SAP Research Zurich

(Public Company; SAP; Computer Software industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Working of software architectures for the Web of Things.
Research Associate

Auto-ID Labs, ETH Zurich

(Computer Software industry)

June 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 7 months)

Research Associate for the Information Management group and the Auto-ID labs (RFID) of the ETH Zurich and the University of St-Gallen.
External Scientific Collaborator

Software Engineering Group, Unifr

(Higher Education industry)

August 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 5 months)

External Scientific Collaborator of the Software Engineering Group at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Working on the RFIDLocator system: an assets tracking framework using RFID technologies and implementing various EPC standards (http://diuf.unifr.ch/rfidlocator).
Teaching Assistant

Pervasive and Artificial Intelligence Group (PAI)

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Teaching assistant at the Operating and Distributed Systems Laboratory of the PAI Research Group at the University of Fribourg (diuf.unifr.ch/pai).
Teacher

Swiss School for Informatics Ecole Suisse D'Informatique

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)

January 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 6 months)

Teacher at the Swiss School for Informatics (Ecole Suisse d'Informatique) in the domains of web technologies and alternative operating systems.
Team Manager and Owner

GMIPSoft.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1996 — January 2006 (10 years 1 month)

Team manager and programmer for the development of web and desktop based applications for small to middle-sized business.
Internship

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

August 2005 — November 2005 (4 months)

Summer intern at the ”Client Solutions, Software Practice” in Gland (Geneva).
Working on the design and implementation of a Java based (J2EE) demonstration Portal for the banking business.
Internet Assistent

Dartfish

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Work as an Internet Assistant (web programmer) for DartFish (www.dartfish.com), a company active in the domain of video software solutions.

Dominique Guinard’s Education

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

PhD , Computing, Information Management , 2007 — 2011 (expected)

PhD candidate at the ETH Zurich, information management group (http://www.im.ethz.ch). Member of the AutoID Labs (http://www.autoidlabs.org) and M-Labs (http://www.m-lab.ch).
Lancaster University

MSc , Computer Science , 2006 — 2007

Working on the RelateGateways (http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/relategateways) project in frame of the Relate European Project (http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/index.php?id=32) for the partical part of the MSc in Computer Science.

Activities and Societies:

Hiking society, Erasmus society, European Union Society
Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg

MSc , Computer Science , 2005 — 2007

Theoretical part of the MSc degree in Computer Science.

Activities and Societies:

comitee member of FRIBOT (www.fribot.org), students' representative for Computer Science
Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg

Bachelor , Computer Science , 2002 — 2005

BSc Thesis: Radio Frequency IDentification: Evaluation of the Technology
Supporting the Development of an Assets Tracking Application.
In collaboration with Sun Microsystems Inc.

Activities and Societies:

Founder of Fribot (www.fribot.org)

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Dominique Guinard’s Interests:

My research interest is in: - Web-inspired and lightweight architectures for a global Web of Things (smart objects, sensor networks and machines). - Composition, orchestration and mashups of services within this Web of Things. - Use of semantic technolgies for searching services in the physical world.