Michael Beigl

Since 2010, Michael Beigl is Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he holds the Chair of Pervasive Computing Systems. There he heads the TECO research group and serves as Co-Speaker of the KIT HealthTech Center. From 2012 to 2015, he was Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science. Previously, he was Professor for Distributed and Ubiquitous Systems at TU Braunschweig (2006–2010) and Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University, Japan (2005). From 1996 to 2005, he was a researcher at the University of Karlsruhe, where he received his Dr.-Ing. (PhD in engineering) in Computer Science in 2000 with a dissertation on ubiquitous computing environments. His research focuses on human–machine synergy in ubiquitous computing, combining wearable sensors and devices with firmware, software architectures, and AI models to realize interactive and continuous human-centered services, including health monitoring and adaptive systems. In industrial and applied projects, he works on Health Technology, IoT, applied AI, mobile computing, and Industry 4.0.