Discovering Information in Biobanks

The project “ScReeningData” by Dr.-Ing. Michael Muma has received 1.5 million euros for excellent and innovative foundational and pioneering research. The project develops methods for discovering relevant information in complex biomedical data using computer-aided learning.

On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 17:30 – 18:15, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Abdelhak M. Zoubir will give an online seminar on Advanced Robust Signal Processing and Statistical Learning for Biomedial Applications as part of the curATalk Seminar Series 2021/2022 .

Michael Muma has been elected as Chair of the Theoretical and Methodological Trends in Signal Processing Technical Area Committee (TAC) of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).

We wish all students, colleagues and friends a nice and warm holiday season with friends and family! Prof. Abdelhak Zoubir & the Signal Processing Group

Moeness Amin from Villanova University receives one of the IEEE’s most prestigious honors: “For contributions to radar signal processing across a wide range of applications including through-the-wall imaging and health monitoring”, Dr. Amin is awarded the 2022 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications. Dr. Amin is a long-term collaborator of the Signal Processing Group at TU Darmstadt.

This coming Thursday, November 11, 2021, 18:00 – 19:30, the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Germany Section organizes the online-event “WIE Talk: Success Stories”. As invited speakers, Gyri Reiersen and Dr.-Ing. Michael Muma talk about how to succeed in Tech.

Since 2017, the Information Technology Society in the VDE (ITG) awards the ITG Fellowship to members of the signal processing community to honor outstanding accomplishments in Telecommunications Engineering and Information Technology and extraordinary commitment to voluntary service within the community.

The IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Germany Section cordially invites everybody interested in starting their own business to attend their next event “Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Start-up Coaching” on October 28, 2021 from 18:30-19:30. The event begins with a 30-minutes talk by Dr.-Ing. Christian Debes. Dr. Debes is Head of People Data Science at Merck Group in Darmstadt and Lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Darmstadt. After the talk, the speaker will openly discuss questions from the audience.

On September 15, 2021, Afief Dias Pambudi successfully defended his doctoral thesis.

On 12 August 2021, Dominik Reinhard successfully defended his doctoral thesis.

On May 31, 2021, Sergey Sukhanov successfully defended his doctoral thesis.

Christian Schroth, since April 2020 Research Associate with the Signal Processing Group, wins the Ernst-Blickle-Studienpreis 2020 for his Master’s Thesis on Robust Bayesian Cluster Analysis, which was supervised by Michael Muma. In his work, he dealt with robust cluster analysis and developed highly innovative algorithms of statistical learning to identify clusters within a given data set. To this end, the data are modelled as multivariate random variables, which form point clouds in a vector space, the so-called feature space. Those point clouds are to be explained by a suitable underlying statistical model. Both, the number of clusters, as well as the cluster memberships of the individual data points are unknown. A variety of established approaches to this problem exist, but they often lose their statistical guarantees or break down entirely in the presence of outliers or non-symmetrical spread around the cluster centers.

Michael Muma receives the EURASIP Early Career Award

The „European Association For Signal Processing“ (EURASIP) Early Career Award EURASIP Early Career Award is awarded to outstanding researchers and engineers at an early or mid-stage of their career who are younger than 40 years, and whose current work shows not only significant scientific achievements but also high potential to advance scientific knowledge through novel, timely and significant endeavors. This year’s award goes to Dr.-Ing. Michael Muma of the Signal Processing Group.

Wearable sensors, such as the ones used in smartwatches or fitness trackers, record a variety of signals. Mathematical tools help in exacting information about our state of health from these recordings.

Michael Muma, Esa Ollila and Frédéric Pascal are organizing a Special Session on Recent Advances Towards Robust Data Science at the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2021).

On December 17, 2020, Di Jin successfully defended her doctoral thesis.

At the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, held virtually, originally supposed to take place in Florence, Italy, Afief Dias Pambudi won the 3MT Competition by presenting his PhD topic “Robust Landmine Detection Using Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR)".

At the 2020 IEEE RadarConference, Aylin Tastan and Afief D. Pambudi both successfully participated in the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference Student Contest. Aylin Tastan’s work on robust clustering for human gait signatures was awarded the Best Student Paper Award, whereas the runner-up by Afief D. Pambudi focused on robust landmine detection.

On September 17, 2020, Ann-Kathrin Seifert successfully defended her doctoral thesis.

Due to the current situation (Corona virus), the offices of the Signal Processing Group will be closed until further notice.