We congratulate Behrooz Azadi on the successful defense of his PhD thesis on June 5th, 2025 at JKU Linz, which he completed with the highest distinction: pass with distinction.
His dissertation, titled “Skill Level Recognition of Recreational Alpine Skiers”, was supervised at the Institute of Pervasive Computing by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alois Ferscha.
The research investigated unobtrusive monitoring and automatic skill recognition of recreational alpine skiers. The thesis established the first end-to-end, smartphone-only system for recreational skiing motion analysis and laid the groundwork for scalable, data-driven tools to provide real-time feedback and promote lifelong skill development.
The examination committee was chaired by Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Josef Küng (JKU, Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing), with members Prof. Daniel Roggen, PhD (University of Sussex, UK), Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Widmer (JKU, Institute of Computational Perception) and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alois Ferscha.
Congratulations to Dr. Azadi on this achievement!
