Bent G Christensen

Contact info

Bent G Christensen, Ph.D.
Computer Scientist
Service Provider Video Technology Group
Cisco Systems Inc
5030 Sugarloaf Parkway
Lawrenceville, GA, 30044
USA

Direct: +1.770.236.4900
Email:

Link to my Danish blog for friends and family.

Work status: Has an O-1 visa

Avid runner. :)

Other stuff

Education

• 2004 - 2008: Ph.D. Scholarship in Computer Science funded by the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark and the LEGO Company. Thesis advisor: Kaj Grønbæk.
• 1996 - 2003: Master's degree in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. Thesis advisor: Niels Olof Bouvin.
• 1996 - 1996: Royal Danish Airforce, Squadron 661, Karup, Denmark.
• 1992 - 1995: High School at Skive Gymnasium, Denmark.

Certification(s): CCNA, CISSP, ITIL, ScrumMaster.

Work

• Jan 2011 - present: Computer Scientist at Research & Development SPVTG at Cisco Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA:
  • Lead architect on next generation settop box lines within Cisco.
  • Interfacing with both product teams and customers in defining their next generation service architectures.
• June 2009 - Jan 2011: Computer Scientist at Office of the CTO for SPVTG at Cisco Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA:
  • Primary focus on leveraging Web 2.0 Services within Cisco.
  • Interfacing with both product teams and customers in defining their next generation service architectures.
• March 2008 - June 2009: Product Manager at Cisco Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA:
  • Tech lead and manager of the SDK for the IPTV Service Delivery Platform (ISDP).
  • User Interface lead for the core ISDP reference apps - the Reference TV Navigator (RTN).
• 2004 - 2008: Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Interactive Spaces Aarhus University, Denmark:
  • Designed, implemented, and evaluated a peer-to-peer framework (LightPeers) for mobile devices supporting ad hoc groups for learning, gaming, and playing in collaboration with the LEGO Company. Project website for LightPeers.
• 2006: Research scholar at the Augmented Environments Lab, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, visiting Dr. Blair MacIntyre.
• 2005: Technical consultant for the LEGO Company:
  • Participated with Morten Holdflod in developing the Bluetooth communication for the Mindstorms NXT product.
• 2003 - 2004: Full time Academic Researcher at the Center for Interactive Spaces, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark:
  • Made numerous presentations for sponsoring companies in and out of lab.
  • Mentoring programmers at the lab.
  • Main developer on the research project "eBag - an electronic schoolbag". The prototype was bought by the Danish Company KMD for use in public schools.
  • Developer in the research project "iHome - media surfaces in the home" with B&O. We built a prototype for organizing digital material on table surfaces supporting distribution of images to other media surfaces in the home.
  • Developer on the research project: "HyCon - context-aware hypermedia for mobile devices" where we used traditional linking mechanism for linking between the digital and physical world.
• Fall 2002: Project developer on the FlexNet research project, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark.
  • Developed an eLearning web portal for the Multimedia Education at Aarhus University, Denmark.
• 2000 -: Co-founded the company Kiros Experience with Robert Schultz Krogshave and Kasper Ligaard specialized in indexing chemical information:
  • Kiros is still used today by most universities in Denmark.
• 2000 - 2007: Teaching Assistant in various undergraduate and graduate courses at the Computer Science, Department, Aarhus University, Denmark.
• 1997 - 2000: Computer staff at the Institute of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Denmark:
  • Participated in administering a mainly Unix based campus system with approximately 500 active accounts in a staff group of four.

Research & Teaching

• Fall 2011: Reviewer for CHI '12 ACM Conference.
• Fall 2011: Panelist at the third W3C workshop on "Web & TV" - WebTV2011.
• Fall 2011: Program Committee member for ICDIM 2011 - Sixth International Conference on Digital Information Management - ICDIM2011.
• Spring 2011: Program Committee member for the 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia - HT2011.
• Fall 2010: Reviewer for Journal of Computer Science and Technology sponsored by the China Computer Federation.
• Fall 2010: Invited panelist at GT1000 at Georgia Tech.
• Fall 2009: Reviewer for ICADIWT '10 IEEE Conference.
• Fall 2009: Reviewer for CHI '10 ACM Conference.
• Fall 2009: Reviewer for ICADIWT '09 IEEE Conference.
• Spring 2009: Reviewer for CHI '09 ACM Conference.
• Fall 2008 - present: Cisco Research Grant Reviewer.
• Spring 2008: My PhD project called LightPeers.
• Spring 2007: From January till February and again from March till May visiting Alexandra Mazalek's research group Synaesthetic lab at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Fall 2006: Lecturing the course "Interaction Programming" with Kaspar R. Nielsen and Niels Olof Bouvin, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University.
• Fall 2006: Reviewer for the Khronos Group.
• 2006: From March till September visiting Blair MacIntyre's research group Augmented Environment Lab at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2006: Reviewer for the International Journal Information and Software Technology.
• 2005: Lecturing the course "Technologies For Business" with Lotte Krag, Department of Marketing and Statistics, Aarhus School of Business.

Committee work

• Spring 2011 - present: Representing Cisco as member of the DLNA forum.
• Fall 2009: Representing Cisco as member of OIPF.
• Fall 2008 - present: Representing Cisco as author in the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IFF) Metadata committee.
• Fall 2008 - present: Representing Cisco as member of the W3C UbiWeb working group.
• Fall 2008 - present: Representing Cisco as member of the W3C SVG working group.
• Fall 2006 - 2008: Board member of the Departmental advisory board at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University.
• Fall 2005 - 2008: Secretary of the National Danish Ph.D. Association (Ph.D.-nettet) and represented Denmark at the Salzburg meeting of the Bologna Process.
• Fall 2004 - 2008: Member of the board and Chairman of the Ph.D. Association at the Faculty of Science, Aarhus University.
• Fall 2004 - 2008: Member of "ph.d. studienævnet" for the Faculty of Science AU

Selected publications and patents

Dissertations and Reports

• Bent Guldbjerg Christensen. PhD Dissertation, Mobile Ad Hoc P2P Networking: Framework and Applications. Aarhus University, September 2007.
• Bent Guldbjerg Christensen. Progress Report: Mobile P2P Networking for Play, Gaming and Learning. Aarhus University, February 2006. PDF.
• Bent Guldbjerg Christensen and Allan Hansen. Master's Thesis: XLink---Bridging Open Hypermedia and the World Wide Web. Aarhus University, February 2003. Niels Olof Bouvin as advisor. PDF Online version | PDF Print version

Journal papers

• Christensen B.G., Kristensen M.D., Hansen F.A., Bouvin N.O. (2008): Enabling Co-located Learning over Mobile Ad Hoc P2P with LightPeers. In the Journal of Network (JNW) Volume 3 Issue 2, February 2008. ISSN 1796-2056. PDF version
• Bouvin N.O., Christensen B.G., Grønbæk K., Hansen F.A. (2003): HyCon: A Framework for Context-aware Mobile Hypermedia. In The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) journal volume 9. PDF version

Peer Reviewed Conference papers

• Susan J. Robinson, Danial Razza, Bent G. Christensen, Andy Wu, and Ali Mazalek (2009): KinoPuzzle: Grasping Realities through Tangible Tabletop Documentaries. Accepted for ISEA the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2009 (ISEA '09), August 23rd - September 1st 2009 at University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
• Brynskov M, Bouvin. N.O, and Christensen B.G. (2007): Life Is a Stage: An Architecture for Do-It-Yourself Interactive Pervasive Play and Learning. Accepted for the Third International Conference on Games Research and Development 2007 (CyberGames '07), September 10-11 2007 at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
• Christensen B.G. (2006): Experiences Developing Mobile P2P Applications with LightPeers. In proceedings of P2P2006 - The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, September 6-8, 2006, Cambridge, UK.
• Hansen F.A., Christensen B.G., and Bouvin N.O. (2005): RSS as a Distribution Medium for Geo-spatial Hypermedia. In proceedings of HT 2005 - Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia on May 6.-9. Sept, 2005, Salzburg, Austria. PDF version
• Brodersen C., Christensen B.G., Grønbæk K., Dindler C., and Sundararajah B. (2005): eBag - a Ubiquitous Web Infrastructure for Nomadic Learning. In proceedings of the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference on May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan. PDF version
• Hansen F.A., Bouvin N.O., Christensen B.G., Grønbæk K., Pedersen T. B., Gagach J. (2004): Integrating the Web and the World: Contextual Trails on the Move. In proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'04). Santa Cruz, California, USA, August 9-13, 2004. PDF version
• Christensen B. G., Hansen F. A., Bouvin N. O. (2003): Xspect: Bridging Open Hypermedia and XLink. In proceedings of the 12th International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary 20-24 May, 2003, pp 490-499. PDF version

Peer Reviewed Workshop papers

• Christensen B.G., Morse K., Nair A., Versteeg B. (2011): HTML5: Now with Premium Content. In proceedings of the 3rd W3C Workshop on Web and TV, 19-22 September 2011, Hollywood, California, USA. PDF version
• Christensen B.G. (2007): LightPeers: A Lightweight Mobile P2P platform. In proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing - MP2P'07 at PerCom2007, 19-23 March 2007, White Plains, New York, USA.
• Christensen B.G. (2006): LightPeers - A Framework Supporting Nomadic Learning in Mixed Environments with Mobile Ad Hoc Networking. Presented at the 3rd MiNEMA Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Environments, February 7-8 2006 Leuven, Belgium. PDF version
• Christensen B.G. (2005): Does Social Computing Make You Happy? A Case Study of Nomadic Children in Mixed Environments. Presented at the "Ambient Computing in a Critical, Quality of Life Perspective", under The Fourth Decennial Aarhus Conference on August 20-24, 2005, Aarhus, Denmark. PDF version
• Bouvin N.O., Christensen B.G., Hansen F.A., Nielsen K.L. (2005): Supporting Mobile and Nomadic Learning. In proceedings of the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference Workshop WF12 May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan. PDF version
• Brodersen C., Christensen B.G., Grønbæk K., Dindler C., Iversen O.S. (2004): eBag - the digital school bag, in Proceedings of the Fourth Danish Human-Computer Interaction Research Symposium, (eds. Kjeldskov, Skov, Stage), November 16, 2004, Centertryk, Aalborg, Denmark (pp-13-16). PDF version
• Christensen B.G., Hansen F.A. (2002): XLink - Linking the Web and Open Hypermedia. In David Millard, Jörg M. Haake, Sigi Reich (Eds.): Proceedings of the International Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems Core Concepts and Research Directions. Pre-Conference Workshop at the 13th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'02). University of Maryland, College Park, USA, June 12th, 2002. PDF version

Peer Reviewed Poster and demo papers

• Brynskov M., Christensen B.G., Ludvigsen M., Collins A., Grønbæk K. (2005): Designing for Nomadic Play: A case study of participatory design with children. In proceedings of the 4th International Conference for Interaction Design and Children, June 8-10, 2005, Boulder, Colorado, USA. PDF version
• Poulsen S.H., Fjord-Larsen M., Hansen F.A., and Christensen B.G. (2001): Visualizing guided tours with W3D. Demonstration and poster presented at the 12th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. University of Aarhus, Århus, Denmark, August 14-18, 2001. PDF version

Patents

Surprisingly empty category right now... :) A few patent ideas are in the internal review process at the moment.