Personal homepage of Martin Leopold

Name	Martin Leopold
Born	Oct 28th 1978
Brain	Nearly gone (allong with my hair =)
Home	Valby, on the edge of Copenhagen, Denmark
Email	leopold@diku.dk

This page is written mostly in English for no particular reason.

This page contains information of questionable relevance, you might cry, you might be shocked or you might just not care. Consider yourself warned =]

More?

• non-DIKU-related stuff: http://www.leopold.dk/~martin
• The DIKU motor-cycle gang: http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/mcsparc/
• The DIKU student cafeteria: http://kantine.diku.dk

Always remember: the purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people.

For more on each publication visit my record at dblp.

Hogthrob related work

• Martin Leopold: Sensor Network Motes: Portability and Performance, Ph.D. Dissertation, December 2007, [bibtek][pdf].
  • Slides from oral defence June 2nd 2008, [pdf]
• Martin Leopold, Marcus Chang, Philippe Bonnet: Characterizing Mote Performance: A Vector-Based Methodology, 5th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2008), January 2008, [bibtek][pdf].
• Martin Leopold: Creating a New Platform for TinyOS 2.x, DIKU Technical report 07-09 (2007), ISSN: 0107-8283, [bibtek][pdf].
  • Also published as TEP131 [pdf][txt].
• Martin Leopold, Marcus Chang, Philippe Bonnet: Characterizing Mote Performance: A Vector-Based Methodology, DIKU Technical report 07-06 (2007), ISSN: 0107-8283, [bibtek][pdf].
• Martin Leopold: HogthrobV0 Users Manual, DIKU Technical report 07-05 (2007), ISSN: 0107-8283, [bibtek][pdf].
• TinyOS for mcs51 (8051) based platforms eg. CC2430, nRF24E1
  • http://www.tinyos8051wg.net
• Martin Leopold, Marcus Chang: TinyOS 2 on 8051 - what is it good for? Poster from TinyOS Exchange 4 [pdf]
  • Presentation from TTX4 regarding the status of the TinyOS 8051 working group
  • Demo for TTX4 [README], [Source code] http://www.tinyos8051wg.net/documentation
• Anders Egeskov Petersen, Sidsel Jensen, Martin Leopold Towards TinyOS for 8051 (TinyOS Enhancement Proposal 121) [txt] [pdf]
• Kashif Virk, Martin Leopold, Jan Madsen, Andreas Vad Lorentzen, Martin Hansen, Philippe Bonnet: Design of A Development Platform for HW/SW Codesign of Wireless Integrated Sensor Nodes, dsd2005, [BibTeX][pdf].
• Poster from the agricultural fare "Jordforbindelse"
• Martin Leopold: Power Estimation using the Hogthrob Prototype Platform, M.sc. thesis, dec 2004 [ps.gz][pdf] (Nominated for best thesis of the year award by DSFD).
  • Poster from DIKU M.Sc. thesis event

Manatee related work

• Allan Beaufour, Martin Leopold, Philippe Bonnet: Smart-Tag Based Data Dissemination, wsna02, [BibTeX][ps][pdf].
• An implementation was made by Allan Beaufour and a demo was made by Mads Dydensborg which I presented at the Pervasive 2002 conference at ETH in Zürich (poster [jpg][ps.gz][pdf][ppt], leaflet [ps][pdf]).
• Martin Leopold, Mads Bondo Dydensborg, Philippe Bonnet: Bluetooth and Sensor Networks: A Reality Check, Sensys03, BibTeX, [ps][pdf].
  
  • Martin Leopold: Tiny Bluetooth stack for TinyOS. Student project describing the details of the TinyBT stack used in the above paper. [ps][pdf]]
  • Presentation of TinyBT
  • Philippe Bonnet, Allan Beaufour, Mads Bondo Dydensborg, Martin Leopold: Bluetooth-Based Sensor Networks, Sigmod Record, [ps][pdf]
• Martin Leopold: Evaluation of Bluetooth Communication: Simulation and Experiments, DIKU tech report 02-03 (2002), ISSN: 0107-8283, [bibtek][ps][pdf].

Selected projects, that I had fun working on:

• Bachelor project (sponsored by Silicide A/S): Dennis Haney, Martin Leopold: Hardware implementation af parallel løsning af lineære ligningssystemer (Hardware Implementation of Parallel Solution of Linear Equearion Systems), 2001 [ps][pdf]
• Oral graduate project on autonomous robots: Rasmus Friis Kjeldsen, Lars Bo Thulin, Martin Leopold: Find the middle, 2001
  Views from the robot, the robot in action (Danish speak by me) [avi][mpeg], how simple the control algorithm can be done [ps][pdf]

1994	Graduated from primary school (Kildegård Gymnasium)
1997	Graduated from secondary school, mathematical line (Kildegård Gymnasium)
2002	Graduated B.sc. in computer science* and physics** from University of Copenhagen - DIKU (department of computer science)/NBI (Niels Bohr Institute)
2005	Computer Science graduate
2006- 2007	PhD Student at DIKU.

* Danish term Datalogi, which is a bit wider than a US CS degree; the term Computing Science has been suggested as a better translation.
** "Very strange peopole, physicists. In my experince the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill", Dr. Stadish (psychiatrist) Douglas Addams: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul p. 111.

Volunteer student activities

1999-?	Board member of the DIKU student cafeteria - a self financed student kitchen, vending machine park and place to well not-studdy
2000, 2003	Arranging freshman introductory week (rusvejlder), tutor might be somewhat of an overstatement. The year 2000 trip has website 2000 - it is computer science after all =]

1997 Database data validation work at the department of education (Undervisningsministeriet)
2000 System administrator at Silicide A/S
2000 Employed to complete Bachelor project on "Hardware implementation of a parallel linear equation solver" at Silicide A/S
2000 Started the company Duplex I/S at first specialising in small-low noise PCs
2001 OS developer at Silicide A/S working on a fast, tiny, embedded OS code name Poppo for a Bluetooth Baseband controller
2002/2003 Programming assistant at the department of distributed computing (distlab), DIKU working on the Manatee and apparater.dk projects.
2004 Programming assistant at the department of distributed computing (distlab), DIKU working on Hogthrob