I am an applied machine learning researcher with more than 5 years of experience. In my work I aim to bridge the gap between the machine learning community and practical application domains like ubiquitous computing, human computer interaction and the internet of things. My research interest lies in the computational analysis of behaviour in both humans and animals, and in how systems can be designed that are sufficiently robust towards naturalistic settings like the private home. I am an experienced collaborator in inter-disciplinary teams and author or co-author of more than 20 peer-reviewed publications. I have experience in the design and realisation of complex recognition systems based on state-of-the-art approaches like deep learning, robust study design and data-collection methods, sensing hardware and signal processing, and in detailed evaluation and (clinical) validation methodologies. Please see my google scholar account for an up-to-date list of my publications: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Qk_ziKsAAAAJ

Research Scientist @ Ubiquitous Computing, Machine Learning, Time-series Analysis with particular focus on medical applications of inertial sensing technologies. From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomPhD student @ Machine learning PhD with focus on human behaviour monitoring using time-series analysis, funded by the SiDE research hub. From December 2010 to December 2014 (4 years 1 month) Visiting Research Student @ Visiting the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group lead by Prof. Gregory Abowd to participate in a research project on problem behavior in individuals with autism. This work has been published on Ubicomp 2012 and was nominated for the best paper award (see below). From August 2012 to November 2012 (4 months) Research Assistant @ http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/ From June 2010 to February 2011 (9 months) Developer @ Backend development with Ruby on Rails, PHP. Design and implementation of business critical applications. Extensive frontend development using Javascript/AJAX. From July 2007 to June 2010 (3 years) Developer @ Backend development with Perl, PHP, ASP, standard compliant frontend development using XHTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX. Web-site security, documentation, windows/linux administration. From November 2005 to June 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science @ Newcastle University From 2010 to 2014 Diplom, Computer Science & Physics @ Universität Dortmund From 2003 to 2010 Machine Learning, Software Engineering @ UCL From 2007 to 2008 Nils Hammerla is skilled in: Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Matlab, torch, lua, python, Perl, Ruby, C, Ubiquitous Computing, Time Series Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Algorithms, Java, Regular Expressions