{"id":142,"date":"2016-08-08T05:34:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T05:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2016-08-08T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T05:35:06","slug":"backer-profile-thomas-ploetz-newcastle-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/backer-profile-thomas-ploetz-newcastle-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Backer Profile: Thomas Ploetz, Reader at Newcastle University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-143\" src=\"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thomas-p.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Ploetz\" width=\"279\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thomas-p.jpg 705w, http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/thomas-p-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 85vw, 279px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasploetz.de\">Thomas Ploetz<\/a> is a Reader at the <a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.ncl.ac.uk\/\">Open Lab at Newcastle University<\/a>. His research is focused on computational behaviour analysis, that is building and deploying (statistical) models that capture behavior and enable quantitative assessments of it. Behavior is thereby captured opportunistically, e.g., through wearable or ubiquitous sensing. He considers himself working as an applied machine learning researcher.<\/p>\n<p>The central theme of Thomas&#8217; research is to develop techniques and systems that actually have an impact on people&#8217;s life. Therefore, his research is almost always connected to some practical application (in contrast to purely theoretical work) and he is\u00a0keen on deploying systems he\u00a0develops in the &#8220;wild&#8221;, i.e., in real-world settings. The most prominent domain for this kind of work is health where he is\u00a0working on computational assessments of behavioral phenotypes of, for example, Parkinson&#8217;s, Dementia, or Autism. Within the Digital Interaction group at Newcastle University he is\u00a0involved in a number of projects that address these research themes from different angles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/openlab.png\" alt=\"Open Lab Newcastle University\" width=\"426\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/openlab.png 426w, http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/openlab-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 85vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thomas intends to use CrowdSignals.io mainly for unsupervised learning of behavior representations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn More<br \/>\n<\/strong>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasploetz.de\/\">www.thomasploetz.de<\/a><br \/>\nOpen Lab:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.ncl.ac.uk\/\">https:\/\/openlab.ncl.ac.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Ploetz is a Reader at the Open Lab at Newcastle University. His research is focused on computational behaviour analysis, that is building and deploying (statistical) models that capture behavior and enable quantitative assessments of it. Behavior is thereby captured opportunistically, e.g., through wearable or ubiquitous sensing. He considers himself working as an applied machine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/backer-profile-thomas-ploetz-newcastle-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Backer Profile: Thomas Ploetz, Reader at Newcastle University&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,31,17],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backers","tag-activity-recognition","tag-machine-learning","tag-mhealth"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crowdsignals.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}