Martin Nelisse was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1968. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering from Eindhoven Technical University in 1992. He joined TNO in Delft, the Netherlands in 1990 to work in the field of system architecture for distributed real-time embedded computer systems. His research interests include communication protocols, field busses, wired & wireless networks and device driver & kernel development for microprocessors, microcontrollers and digital signal processors. He is involved in applying these techniques in areas like active-noise control, rehabilitation, data acquisition & presentation systems, industrial automation, automotive/telematics applications, ultrasound applications and wireless sensor networks.
He was active in several EU projects like ASANCA, M3S, IMMeDIAte, FOCUS and ICAN and contributed to an ISO working group standardising a general-purpose integrated and modular architecture for the rehabilitation environment called M3S. From August 1999 till October 2000 he was involved in a national program for Prognostics & Health Management activities for the JSF airplane at the Boeing Company, Seattle, USA. After this he was involved in several projects dealing with in-vehicle bus systems, inter-vehicle communication and vehicle telematics. Followed by several projects using ultrasonic techniques for underwater communication and flow measurements. Currently he is involved in projects dealing with wireless sensor networks.