PhD student, CHISEL lab, University of Victoria

I am a PhD student in the Computer-Human Interaction Software Engineering Lab (CHISEL) at the University of Victoria, Canada, since September 2007. My supervisor is Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey. I received a Masters degree in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in February 2007.
 
My research topic is end user development of visualizations and user interfaces. I am currently investigating different ways of supporting users in visual analytics and rapid mashup construction. Others areas of interest are end user development, information visualization, human-computer interaction, domain specific languages, model driven development and software engineering in general.


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I am currently an active contributor to the following open source projects. Projects I have contributed to in the past can be found in my Sourceforge profile

Nomad PIM [ www.nomadpim.org ]

Nomad PIM is an Eclipse RCP based personal information manager. I started the project in 2005. My goal is to create a personal information manager that can be extended and customized for personal needs in the way that the Eclipse IDE can be customized for development in different domains.

BugzillaMetrics [ www.bugzillametrics.org ]

BugzillaMetrics is a tool for the evaluation of change request metrics. I created its first version as part of my thesis 2006/2007. Its main characteristics are the specification of metrics by the users, separation between metric specification and data retrieval, an event driven algorithm, transparent execution optimization and an abstraction of its data sources.