Supervised Theses

• Implementation and Evaluation of an SPI Module in Rust/C++ for STM32 (Bachelor, February 2020)
• Implementation and Evaluation of several update strategies for a smart home control system on Android (Bachelor, March 2020)
• Visualization of impacts of several updates in smart homes. (Bachelor, May 2020)
• Development of a Framework for text extraction and classification of PDF documents based on section length (Bachelor, September 2020)
• Development of an Augmented Reality App for iOS-devices to operate IoT devices (Bachelor, December 2020)
• EyeReach: Control and Interconnection of Smart Home Devices through Image Recognition (Master, May 2021)
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Recommnedation Application for interoperable Smart Home Devices (Master, May 2021)
• Development and evaluation of a cross-platform smart home device (Bachelor, September 2021)
• Data science driven ingredient substitution in digital recipes (Bachelor, September 2021)
• Implementation and Evaluation of an Algorithm for dependency-preserving Smart Home Updates (Bachelor, September 2021)
• Development of a Modular Smart Device to explore the capabilities of segregating “Smart” and “Device” functionalities (Master, March 2022)
• Development and Evaluation of an AI-based cooking-recipe generation (Master, April 2022)
• Rewrite it in Rust: Overleaf (Bachelor, February 2022)
• ChessDuino: Development of a chess computer for Arduino (Bachelor, February 2022)
• Cooking-recipe construction using network analysis (Bachelor, February 2022)
• Retrofit Smartness: Development of a plug-and-play solution for retrofittable smart features (Bachelor, October 2022)
• Implementation and Evaluation of Longevity Digital Twins in the Context of Smart Homes (Master, March 2023)
• A Web of Things compliant Smart Home Simulation (Bachelor, Juli 2023)
• Design and Prototyping a wireless magnet-free window sensor for smart home applications (Master, August 2023)
• Development of an adaptive control algorithm for smart home device (Master, September 2023)
• FooSH: A Framework for Outcome-oriented Smart Homes (Master, December 2023)
• Implementation and Evaluation of several deep-learning architectures for the control of smart home devices (Bachelor, TBD)
• Evaluation of fine-tuned LLMs to control smart home devices (Bachelor, December 2024)
• Optimizing symbolic regression through Artificial Co-Evolution (Master, January 2025)
• Enhancing IoT Security in Homne Networks through VLAN-Based Network Segmentation (Bachelor, January 2025)

Topics for Theses

In our research we are concerned with the longevity of smart homes. When several devices are updated, it is possible that certain services or automations no longer function. This can happen, if the public interface, that smart homes use to communicate with each other, is changed through software updates. Speficially, we are looking into how devices and services in a smart home can be standardized, to achieve clarity what for example a light bulb is and what functions it can offer. Furthermore, we explore options how to plan the update process through such a standardization, to find the best suited update configuration in the big update space. If you are interested in any of these problems, write me a mail and we can think of a topic that fits into my research area and your skills/interests.

Topics for theses that don’t regard my research

There are some topics i am generally interested in, but that don’t fit my general research direction of “Smart Homes”. If one of these topics interests you, feel free to write me.

• Semantic DNS: Device discovery based on tangible properties
• Digital Twins of IoT Devices
• Symbolic Regression
• Genetic Algorithms
• Embedded Swift

Academic Services

Organizer

• The 1st International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing (PerFail 2022) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2022)
• The 2nd International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing (PerFail 2023) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2023)
• The 3rd International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing (PerFail 2024) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2024)
• The 4th International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing (PerFail 2025) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2025)
• First Workshop on Autonomous Ubiquitous Systems AutoQuitous 2023 (co-located with EAI MobiQuitous)
• Second Workshop on Autonomous Ubiquitous Systems AutoQuitous 2024 (co-located with EAI MobiQuitous)
• First International Workshop on Longevity in IoT Systems LongevIoT 2024 (co-located with ACM IoT 2024)

Publicity Chair

• International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things ( PerIoT ) 2021 (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2021)
• IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2021
• International Workshop on Internet of Things Pervasive Real-World Deployments (IoT-PROD) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2022)

TPC | Reviewer

• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2025)
• ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) 2025
• IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2024
• IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference ( CCNC25)
• IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference ( CCNC24)
• Elsevier Computer Communications Journal ( COMCOM 2023)
• IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2023
• Elsevier Computer Communications Journal ( COMCOM 2022)
• IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2022
• IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2021
• International Workshop on Internet of Things Pervasive Real-World Deployments (IoT-PROD) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2022)

Session Chair

• IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Demo Session ( PerCom) 2022

Videos of Presentations

• PerCom 2020 PhD Forum
• PerIoT 2020 Backupvideo
• PerIoT 2021 Teaser (1 min)
• PerIoT 2021 Backupvideo

Honors

• EAI Distinguished Member 2021

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Talks

• Towards Longevity of Smart Homes, PerIoT 2020: The Fourth International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things, March 27, 2020
• Longevity of Smart Homes (Poster), PerCom, Texas, USA, March 23, 2020
• Requirements and Mechanisms of Smart Home Updates, SENSYBLE 2020 3rd workshop on Smart Systems for Better Living Environments, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 1, 2020
• An Algorithm for Dependency-Preserving Smart Home Updates, PerIoT 2021: The Fifth International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things, March 26, 2021
• A Digital-Twin Based Architecture for Software Longevity in Smart Homes: 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022), July 11, 2023
• How to Change a Light Bulb in Your Smart Home: A Digital-Twin Based Approach, PDT 2023: First Workshop on Pervasive Digital Twins, March 17, 2023
• Towards Predicting the Perceived Brightness in a Smart Home Through Symbolic Regression, PerCom WiP, March 13, 2024
• Boah Siri: Smart Homes cleverer machen, Pint of Science Duisburg https://pintofscience.de/event/pint-of-science-duisburg-and-essen-2 , May 13, 2024

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Projects

• AR-InGo - Augmented Reality for the Faculty of Engineering

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Publications (15)

2024 (2)

• Zdankin, Peter and Weis, Torben
  Demo: Smartbright: Learning a Physics-Based Model of Light-Scattering With Symbolic Regression
  In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
• Zdankin, Peter and Matkovic, Viktor and Schiele, Gregor and Weis, Torben
  Towards Predicting the Perceived Brightness in a Smart Home Through Symbolic Regression
  In: 22nd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications WiP (PerCom 2024)
  DOI: TBD

2023 (1)

• Zdankin, Peter and Picone, Marco and Schaffeld, Matthias and Mamei, Marco and Weis, Torben
  How to Change a Light Bulb in Your Smart Home: A Digital-Twin Based Approach
  In: PDT 2023: First Workshop on Pervasive Digital Twins
  DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150349

2022 (2)

• Peltonen, Ella and Mohan, Nitinder and Zdankin, Peter and Shreedhar, Tanya and Nguyen, Tri and Bayhan, Suzan and Crowcroft, Jon and Kangasharju, Jussi and Nicklas, Daniela
  Perspectives on Negative Research Results in Pervasive Computing
  In: IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 22 Issue 3
  DOI: http://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2023.3273718
• Zdankin, Peter and Picone, Marco and Mamei, Marco and Weis, Torben
  A Digital-Twin Based Architecture for Software Longevity in Smart Homes
  In: 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022)
  DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS54860.2022.00070

2021 (2)

• Carl, Oskar and Zdankin, Peter and Schaffeld, Matthias and Matkovic, Viktor and Yu, Yang and Elbers, Timo and Weis, Torben
  Persistent Streams: The Internet With Ephemeral Storage
  In: Tagungsband des FG-BS Herbsttreffens 2021
  DOI: 10.18420/fgbs2021h-01
• Zdankin, Peter and Schaffeld, Matthias and Carl, Oskar and Waltereit, Marian and Weis, Torben
  An Algorithm for Dependency-Preserving Smart Home Updates
  In: PerIoT 2021: 5th International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT 2021)
  DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops51409.2021.9431040

2020 (7)

• Matkovic, Viktor and Waltereit, Marian and Zdankin, Peter and Weis, Torben
  Towards Bike Type and E-Scooter Classification With Smartphone Sensors
  In: 17th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, ACM
• Waltereit, Marian and Uphoff, Maximilian and Zdankin, Peter and Matkovic, Viktor and Weis, Torben
  A Digital Forensic Approach for Optimizing the Investigation of Hit-And-Run Accidents
  In: 11th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68734-2_11
• Zdankin, Peter and Carl, Oskar and Waltereit, Marian and Matkovic, Viktor and Weis, Torben
  Requirements and Mechanisms for Smart Home Updates
  In: SENSYBLE 2020, 2nd workshop on Smart Systems for Better Living Environments
  DOI: 10.18420/inf2020_91
• Weis, Torben and Zdankin, Peter and Carl, Oskar and Waltereit, Marian
  Group-based Memory Management in Fyr
  In: Tagungsband des FG-BS Herbsttreffens 2020
  DOI: 10.18420/fgbs2020h-02
• Waltereit, Marian and Zdankin, Peter and Matkovic, Viktor and Uphoff, Maximilian and Weis, Torben
  Online Driving Behavior Scoring using Wheel Speeds
  In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS,
  DOI: 10.5220/0009215604170424
• Zdankin, Peter and Waltereit, Marian and Matkovic, Viktor and Weis, Torben
  Towards Longevity of Smart Home Systems
  In: PerIoT 2020: 4th International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT 2020)
  DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops48775.2020.9156165
• Zdankin, Peter and Weis, Torben
  Longevity of Smart Homes
  In: PerCom PhD Forum 2020: 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PhD Forum (PerCom PhD Forum 2020)
  DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops48775.2020.9156155

2019 (1)

• Matkovic, Viktor and Waltereit, Marian and Zdankin, Peter and Uphoff, Maximilian and Weis, Torben
  Bike type identification using smartphone sensors
  In: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
  DOI: 10.1145/3341162.3343763

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Teaching

SoSe 2025

• Internet-Technologie & Web Engineering

WiSe 24/25

• Distributed Systems
• Objektorientierte Programmierung in C++

SoSe 2024

• Freiwillige Programmiertechniken
• Internet-Technologie & Web Engineering

WiSe 23/24

• Distributed Systems
• Into the LoRaVerse

SoSe 2023

• Basteltruppe Arduino/C
• Internet-Technologie & Web Engineering

WiSe 22/23

• Basteltruppe Arduino/C
• CPS-Labor Praktikum
• Distributed Systems
• Ok, Bloomer

SoSe 2022

• CPS-Labor Praktikum
• Internet-Technologie & Web Engineering
• The Beauty of Rust
• Verteilte Systeme

WiSe 21/22

• Breaking Things in C
• ChuuChuUDP
• CPS-Labor Praktikum
• Distributed Systems

SoSe 2021

• Internet-Technologie & Web Engineering
• Verteilte Systeme

WiSe 20/21

• prOSyt - Project: Operating System
• Rechnernetze und Kommunikationssysteme

SoSe 2020

• Internet-Technologie & Web Engineering
• Rust for the Brave
• Verteilte Systeme

WiSe 19/20

• C für die Praxis
• Smarte Lernraumsuche über IoT