Biosketch
I am currently
an Associate Professor in the
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales,
Australia.
I was born in Munich, Germany, in 1975. I received a Master of
Science from the
University
of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, in 1999, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Colorado
at Boulder,
USA, in 2003, both in electrical engineering. In the Fall semester of
1998, I was a visiting research student with the Coding Group at the
University of Hawaii
at Manoa, USA. In 1999-2000, I was a Research Fellow with the
Optical
3D Metrology Group at
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen,
Germany. In the Spring semester of 2004, I was a Postdoctoral Research
Associate, and in the Spring semester of 2008, a Visiting Associate
Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Colorado State
University, Ft. Collins, USA. I have been with the University of
Newcastle since July 2004.
I have received fellowships from the State of Bavaria, the
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National
Academic Foundation), and the
Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
(German Research Foundation). I currently serve on the Editorial
Board of the
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and on
the IEEE Technical Committee
Machine Learning for Signal
Processing. I am a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Where is Newcastle?
Newcastle is Australia's sixth largest metropolitan area. It is located
on the east coast, by car approximately two hours north of Sydney. The
picture shows Nobby's Head, which stands guard at the entrance to
Newcastle harbor.
