Thomas Sandholm
Bio
He then worked as a Senior Scientific Programmer at Argonne National Laboratories Distributed Computing Lab where he was the lead developer of Globus Toolkit v3, a Grid Middleware software stack for developers of scientific applications.
During his PhD studies he focused on Grid accounting, market-based resource allocation and demand prediction, and he was active in a number of European Grid research projects, including EGEE (EU), NextGrid (EU) and SweGrid.
In 2005 he joined HP Labs and the Social Computing group, where he currently works. His focus is on crowdsourcing, recommendations and incentive engineering in mobile context-aware applications. At HPL he has contributed to Tycoon, an on-demand spot market for virtualized compute resources, and he invented and developed the HP Gloe geotagging service (www.hpgloe.com).
Most recently he was the general chair and co-creator of the MobileHCI Interacting With Sounds workshop.