Fernando Puente-leon

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fernando Puente León

  • Hertzstraße 16
    Geb. 06.35
    76187 Karlsruhe

Curriculum Vitae

  • Born May 2, 1969
  • 1994 Diploma in Electrical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 1999 PhD (Dr.-Ing.), University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    with the thesis 'Automatic Identification of Firearms'
  • 1999 - 2001 PostDoc at the Institute of Measurement and Control Systems, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2001 - 2002 Development Engineer for System Architecture, Group Leader, Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2), Valencia (Spain)
  • 2003 - 2008 Professor at the TU Munich, Head of the Department of Distributed Measurement Systems
  • 2008 - 2020 Professor and Director at the Institute of Industrial Information Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Died July 1, 2020

Research

  • Automatic Visual Inspection
  • Image Processing for Material Recognition
  • Non-contact Human Machine Interaction
  • Cognitive Automobiles
  • Acoustic Signal Processing

Teaching

  • Signals and Systems
  • Methods of Signal Processing
  • Measurement Technology
  • Image Processing
  • Distributed Discrete Event Systems
  • Laboratory Digital Signal Processing

Professional Activities

  • Decan of the KIT Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology 2018-2020
  • Co-editor of the journal 'tm-Technisches Messen'
  • Conference Chair of the conferences "Forum Bildverarbeitung", "Optical Characterization of Materials (OCM)", "SPIE Optical Metrology - Automated Visual Inspection and Machine Vision"
  • Member and longstanding Executive Board member of the 'Arbeitskreis der Hochschullehrer für Messtechnik e.V.'

Publications