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Curriculum Vitae
1966 | Date of birth |
1987-1993 | Student of Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) |
1994 | Springorum Prize of RWTH Aachen University |
1993-1998 | Scientific Research Assistant at the Institute of Communication Systems and Data Processing, RWTH Aachen University. Research subjects: Source and channel coding, speech processing, media error concealment after mobile transmission |
1998 | Ph.D. thesis (with distinction) |
1999 | Borchers Medal of RWTH Aachen University |
1998-1999 | Scientific Consultant at AT&T Labs (Shannon Labs), Florham Park, N.J., USA. Subjects: Joint speech and channel coding |
1999 | Advancement Prize of the Mannesmann (now: Vodafone) Mobile Communications Foundation |
1999-2005 | Siemens Communications, Mobile Phones, Munich. Finally Head of the Team "Digital Speech & Audio Processing" in R&D |
2002 | ITG Prize of VDE |
2004 | Senior Member of IEEE |
2005-2006 | Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich. Head of Competence Field "Speech Technologies" |
Since 2006 | Professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig and Head of the Department "Signal Processing for Mobile Information Systems" at the Institute for Communications Technology |
2008-2010 | Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing |
Since 2011 | Elected member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee |
Activities in Standardization Bodies and Societies:
- Since 2007: ITU-T Focus Groups FITCAR and CARCOM; contributions to ITU-T Recommendations P.1100 and P.1110 for quality tests of automotive handsfree systems
- Since 2008: EURASIP Local Liaison Officer (European Association for Signal Processing)
- Since 2010: Liaison Professor of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Potsdam, Germany


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