Employment

PostDoc Researcher at the Real Time Vision and Modeling Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. Research and project work in the area of computer vision/pattern recognition for automotive.

Research Associate at the Chair for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Burkhardt, Computer Science Department

• Taught computer science lectures, seminars and practical laboratories [>> more]
• Headed the computer network administration at the chair [>> more]
• Managed and proposed projects
• Reviewed journal and conference paper submissions
• Organized the regular "Ski seminars" in Grindelwald, Switzerland.

Student Assistant and Research Associate during M.S. study at the AG Neuroinformatik, Prof. Helge Ritter, Technical Faculty

• Developed algorithms for artificial neural networks (Kohonen maps)
• Programmed in C++
• Tutored the lecture "Informatik I" (B.S. lecture, basics in computer science)

"Wehrdienst" (German military service)

Education

Successfully completed a Ph.D. program at the Chair for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Burkhardt, Computer Science Department

• Graduated with degree "Dr. rer. nat." (equivalent to Ph.D.); thesis work honored with "Mit Auszeichnung" (equivalent to "with highest honors", "summa cum laude")
• Researched in the field of pattern and handwriting recognition, machine learning [>> more]
• Supervised M.S. and B.A. theses [>> more]

Successfully completed the study of Applied Computer Science in the Natural Sciences.

• Graduated as "Dipl.-Inf." (equivalent to M.S.) with the overall grade "sehr gut" (equivalent to an "A")
• Final dissertation (equivalent to M.S. thesis) at the AG Neuroinformatik, Prof. Helge Ritter with the grade "sehr gut" (equivalent to an "A") [>> more]
• Majored in: mathematics, artificial neural networks (ANN), pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision, symbolic artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, compiler design, software design, physics, computers in society.

Research internship at the Department of Physiology, Prof. Kenneth D. Miller.

• Developed noise models in neuro-physiological signals, programming in Matlab

"Gymnasium" (equivalent to High School)

• Graduated with the "Hochschulreife" (German high school degree) with the grade 1.7 (equivalent to an "A-")
• among the best 5% graduates
• Major topics: mathematics, physics, Latin, social sciences

Honors

• Awarded the "Wolfgang-Gentner-Nachwuchsförderpreis" 2005 for the Ph. D. dissertation
• Ph. D. work entitled Advanced Sequence Classification Techniques Applied to Online Handwriting Recognition honored "mit Auszeichnung" (equivalent to "with highest honors", "summa cum laude").
• "Best Paper Presentation" at Int. Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR) 2002, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, August 2002, for the contribution On-line Handwriting Recognition using Support Vector Machines - A kernel approach

Publications

Languages

• German mother tongue
• English fluent
• French basic
• Spanish basic

Further activities

Ski instructor and skiing holiday organizer with the Landessportbund North-Rhine-Westfalia.

Personal interests

Playing with our baby Lucas Bennet, Mountain biking, Soccer, Skiing, Softball, Badminton, Hiking, Music, Computers [>> more]

References

Available upon request