Bernd Schoner - Resume

Resume

EMPLOYMENT

THINGMAGIC, A DIVISION OF TRIMBLE NAVIGATIONS LTD, Cambridge, Massachusetts (since 2010).
VP Business Development.

THINGMAGIC INC, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2005 - 2010).
Co-founder and President.

THINGMAGIC LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2000 - 2005).
Co-founder and Managing Partner.

MIT MEDIA LABORATORY, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1995 - 2000).
Professor Neil Gershenfeld's Physics & Media Group. Things That Think Consortium. Research Assistant.

HEERESMUSIKKORPS II, Kassel, Germany (1989 - 1990).
Military servicse. Cellist and Band Flautist.

EDUCATION

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Doctor of Philosophy in Media Arts and Sciences (September 2000). Thesis: Probabilistic Characterization and Synthesis of Complex Driven Systems.

ÉCOLE CENTRALE DE PARIS, Paris, France.
Ingénieur des Arts et Manufactures (Master of Science) in Industrial Engineering (September 1996).

RHEINISCH-WESTPHÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN, Aachen, Germany.
Diplom-Ingenieur (Master of Science) in Electrical Engineering. Valedictorian (June 1996).

HONORS

Distinguished Paper Award, International Computer Music Conference (Michigan, 1998).
Siemens Best Presentation Award, Symposium on Neural Computation (Vienna,1998).
Henry Ford II Prize 1996 (Ford AG, Germany).
Otto Junker Prize (Aachen, 1997).
Springorum-Medal (RWTH Aachen, 1997).

Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (1992-1996).
Otto-Junker-Foundation (1995-1996).
Franco-German College (1992-1994).

Publications

- M. Farbood, B. Schoner. Determining Feature Relevance in Subject Responses to Musical Stimuli. Communications in Computer and Information Science: Mathematics and Computation in Music, vol. 38, pp. 115-129. Springer Verlag, 2009.

- M. Farbood, B. Schoner. Analysis and Synthesis of Palestrina-Style Counterpoint Using Markov Chains. Proceedings International Computer Music Conference, Cuba, 2001.

- T. Jehan, B. Schoner. An Audio-Driven Perceptually Meaningful Timbre Synthesizer. Proceedings International Computer Music Conference, Cuba, 2001.

- M. Reynolds, B. Schoner, J. Richards, K. Dobson, and N. Gershenfeld. An Immersive, Multi-User, Musical Stage Environment. Siggraph Proceedings. Los Angeles, 2001.

- B.Schoner, N.Gershenfeld. Cluster-Weighted Modeling: Probabilistic Time Series Prediction, Characterization and Synthesis. In Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistics, Alistair Mees (Ed.), Birkhaeuser, Boston, 2001.

- T. Jehan and B. Schoner. An Audio-Driven, Spectral Analysis-Based, Perceptual Synthesis Engine. Audio Engineering Society, Proceedings of the 110th Convention, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001.

- B. Schoner. Probabilitstic Characterization and Synthesis of Complex Driven Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, September 2000.

- O. Omojola, E. R. Post, M. D. Hancher, Y. Maguire, R. Pappu, B. Schoner, P. R. Russo, R. Fletcher, and N. Gershenfeld. An installation of interactive furniture. IBM Systems Journal, Vol.39(3/4), 2000.

- B. Schoner, C. Cooper, N. Gershenfeld. Cluster-Weighted Sampling for Synthesis and Cross-Synthesis of Violin Family Instruments. Proceedings International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, Germany, 2000.

- T.Lukka, B. Schoner, A. Marantz. Phoneme Discrimination from MEG Data. Elsevier Journal for Neuroscience, Special Issue on Neural Computation, 2000.

- B.Schoner, N.Gershenfeld. Data-driven modeling of nonlinear microwave devices. Digest 53rd ARFTG Conference on Nonlinearity Characterization, Anaheim, California, 1999.

- N. Gershenfeld, B. Schoner, E. Metois. Cluster-Weighted-Modeling for Time Series Analysis. NATURE, Vol. 397, P. 329-332, January 28, 1999.

- B. Schoner, C. Cooper, C. Douglas, N. Gershenfeld. Data-driven Modeling of Acoustical Instruments. Journal for New Music Research, Vol 28(2), 1999.

- B. Schoner, C. Cooper, C. Douglas, N. Gershenfeld. Data driven Modeling and Synthesis of Acoustical Instruments. Proceedings International Computer Music Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998.

- T.Lukka, B. Schoner, A. Marantz. Auditory stimulus discrimination from MEG data. Proceedings ICSC/IFAC Symposium on Neural Computation, Vienna, Austria, 1998.

- B. Schoner. Determining predictability in driven non-linear acoustical systems. Diploma-Thesis. MIT Media Lab/RWTH Aachen, 1996.

Patents

- US patent application 13/228,005 A1, Radio frequency identification tiles, Ravikanth Pappu, Bernd Schoner, Harry F. Tsai, Brian Fiegel, published 03/15/2012.

- US patent No. 7,999,658, Methods and apparatus for operating a radio device, Matthew S. Reynolds, Joseph L. Richards, Sumukh N. Pathare, E. Rehmatulla Post, Yael G. Maguire, Harry F. Tsai, Ravikanth S. Pappu, Bernd Schoner, issued 8/16/2011.

- US patent application 13/036,182, Methods and apparatus for operating a radio device, Matthew S. Reynolds, Joseph L. Richards, Sumukh N. Pathare, E. Rehmatulla Post, Yael G. Maguire, Harry F. Tsai, Ravikanth S. Pappu, Bernd Schoner, published 6/23/2011.

- US patent No. 7,961,078, Methods and apparatus for operating a radio device, Matthew S. Reynolds, Joseph L. Richards, Sumukh N. Pathare, E. Rehmatulla Post, Yael G. Maguire, Harry F. Tsai, Ravikanth S. Pappu, Bernd Schoner, issued 6/14/2011.

- UK patent No. GB2453289, Radio devices and communication, Ravikanth S. Pappu, Yael G. Maguire, Bernd Schoner, Brian Fiegel, Arun Viswanathan, issued 3/16/2011.

- US patent application 12/333,988, Radio devices and communication, Ravikanth S. Pappu, Yael G. Maguire, Bernd Schoner, Brian Fiegel, Arun Viswanathan, published 6/17/2010.

- US patent application 11/171,444, Configurable, calibrated radio frequency identification tag system, Matthew S. Reynolds, Bernd Schoner, published 1/4/2007.

- US patent No. 7,075,412, Methods and apparatus for operating a radio device, Matthew S. Reynolds, Joseph L. Richards, Sumukh N. Pathare, E. Rehmatulla Post, Yael G. Maguire, Harry F. Tsai, Ravikanth S. Pappu, Bernd Schoner, issued 7/11/2006.

- US patent No. 6,000,833, Efficient Synthesis of Complex, Driven Systems, Neil Gershenfeld, Bernd Schoner, Eric Metois, issued 12/14/1999.

- Neil Gershenfeld, Bernd Schoner, Eric Metois. Efficient Synthesis of Complex, Driven Systems. US patent No. 6,000,833, issued December 14, 1999.

Talks and Panels

- RECENT EVENTS AND NEWS: www.berndschoner.com/news/

- How To Start an RFID Company, MIT Enterprise Forum, May 14, 2012

- Wireless on Wheels -- Innovations in Smart Transport, MIT Enterprise Forum Auto-ID SIG, March 28, 2011.

- Starting an RFID Venture - Why Now is the Best Time, University of the Philippines, Manila, March 5, 2010.

- Passive UHF RFID, MIT technology breakfast, June 12, 2008.

- Opportunities in RFID, Future Forward Conference, Newburyport, November 7, 2003.

- No Money Down: Raising Capital from Unconventional Sources, MIT Enterprise Forum, September 18, 2003.

- Cluster-Weighted Modeling for Time Series, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England, September 23, 1998.

News and Media

RECENT EVENTS AND NEWS: www.berndschoner.com/news/

PRINT MEDIA

- DiscoverRFID.org, What Experts have to say, Interview with Bernd Schoner, co-founder of ThingMagic, now Trimble, 2011.

- RFID Readers Power International Retail Inventory Management Solution, RFID SwitchBoard - News & Announcements, December 23, 2010.

- ThingMagic Celebrates 10 yr. Anniversary with RFID Predictions, moreRFID.com, September 2010.

- The Boston Globe, Q&A, ThingMagic's Bernd Schoner on inventory technology, November 16 2003.

- www.SiliconInvestor.com, Are you ready for RFID, November 14, 2003.

- ThingMagic teams up with Intel, RFID Journal, September 10, 2003.

- Tyco to Mass-Produce RFID Readers, RFID Journal, February 2003.

- Alien Demos World's First Sub-10-Cent RFID Tag, RFID Journal, July, 2002.

- ThingMagic Conjures Up a Low-Cost EPC Reader, RFID Journal, Mai, 2002.

- Strads for the Masses, Red Herring Magazine, December 4, 2000.

- Stradivarisch, Lufthansa Magazine, September 2000.

- Un stradivarius numerique, l'Ordinateur Individuel, July 2000 (in French).

- Violoncelo stradivarius digital, MUY INTERESANTE, June 2000 (in Spanish).

- Mellow Cello, Financial Times Magazine, 2000.

- Cello unter Strom, Bild der Wissenschaft, January 2000 (in German).

- MIT. Die Schule der Genies, GEO, October 1999 (in German).

- The Digital Stradivarius, FRAMES, Media Lab, March/April 1999.

- Die Technik als englischer Butler / Das Phantom der Gehirnoper, FAZ, January 12, 1998 (in German).

- Arbeit am digitalen Bruder der Geige / Preis fuer digitale Geige aus Aachen, Koelner Rundschau / Aachener Volksblatt, Mai, 1997 (in German).

RADIO

- L'UNIVERSE/The Flying Karamazov Brothers, NPR, January 2000.

TELEVISION

- Amerikanische Privatunis: das MIT, Bayrischer Rundfunk, 1999 (in German).

- Welt der Wunder: MIT, Pro Sieben, 1998 (in German).