Prior to his current position, he worked for AT&T Labs Research. His interests include middleware, ubiquitous computing, and applications for sensor networks. He is one of the founders of the Open Source CORBA implementation called MICO. His sensor network project NetBEAMS won the Duke Choice Award at the JavaOne 2005 conference. In his younger years he worked on early versions of StarWriter. Arno will be the lead technical mentor for the iFOSSF GSoC 2007 program.