News

10/23 Talk by S. Aamir on Koopman-based fiber identification at ECOC
09/23 New article on blind polarization-demultiplexing for shaped QAMs (IEEE/Optica JLT)
09/23 New article on detecting significant solitons (IEEE/Optica JLT)
08/23 Talk at the MPI-PKS Workshop on Extreme Waves
08/23 Vacancies: Research associates / PhD students in the area signal processing methods

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2015 - 2017	Delft University of Technology	University Teaching Qualification
2008 - 2011	Technical University of Berlin	Doctoral degree in electrical engineering (Dr.-Ing.) with distinction
2002 - 2007	Technical University of Berlin	Diplom degree in mathematics (Dipl.-Math.)

Employment

Since July 2023	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Full professor and Head of the Institute of Industrial Information Technology
2019 - July 2023	Delft University of Technology	Associate Professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control
2014 - 2019	Delft University of Technology	Assistant Professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control
2012 - 2014	Princeton University	Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering (Group of Prof. H. Vincent Poor)
2010 - 2012	Technical University of Munich	Research Associate at the Chair of Theoretical Information Technology (Prof. Holger Boche)
2008 - 2010	Technical University of Berlin	Research Associate at the Chair of Theoretical Information Technology and Information Theory (Prof. Holger Boche)
2005 - 2007	Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute for Telecommunications	Student Assistant at the Department for Broadband Mobile Communication Networks

Research

Signal processing methods, also machine learning and control
Various application areas (e.g. optics, communications engineering, oceanography, ...)
Nonlinear waves and applied nonlinear Fourier analysis (inverse scattering method)
Application of Koopman operators in engineering

Teaching

Signale und Systeme (in German)
Methoden der Signalverarbeitung (in German)

Publications

ORCID: 0000-0001-5159-0918
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Honors and Awards

2023 Highlight paper in the EGU journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
2023 Highlight talk at the EGU General Assembly
2022 Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (non-student co-author)
2021 Honorable Mention, Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (non-student co-author)
2020 Highly scored paper at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
2018 Highly cited paper in Web of Science
2017 Second‐most cited paper in the OSA journal Optica
2017 Senior Member of the IEEE
2016 ERC Starting Grant
2015 Johann‐Philipp‐Reis Award

Invited Talks

2022 Tractable approximations of high-genus Riemann theta functions
AMS Special Session on Applications of Riemann Surfaces II at the Joint Mathematics Meetings
2022 Nonlinear Fourier Analysis of Shallow Water Rogue Waves Measured in the Southern North Sea
Workshop “Physical applications” in the Dispersive Hydrodynamics program at the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge, UK)
2022 Nonlinear Fourier Analysis of Rogue Waves Measured in the Pacific Ocean and the North Sea
Special session “Recent Advances in Modeling Rogue Wave” at the 12th IMACS Interna‐
tional Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena
2019 Nonlinear Fourier Transforms as an Engineering Tool
Princeton‐TAMU Symposium on Quantum Engineering and Technology
2019 Introduction to Fiber‐Optic Transmission using Nonlinear Fourier Transforms
Workshop of the ITG Fachgruppe KT 3.1 “Modellierung Photonischer Komponenten und Systeme”
2018 Computing the Nonlinear Fourier Transform
Workshop on advanced transmission schemes at the 44th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
2017 Nonlinear Fourier Transforms and Fiber‐Optic Communication
Bell Labs Crawford Hill, NJ, USA
2017 The Nonlinear Fourier Transform and Fiber‐Optic Communication
Helmut‐Schmidt‐Universität, Department of Radio‐Frequency Engineering & Photonics, Hamburg
2016 Impact of Noise on the Nonlinear Fourier Transform
Sixth Van der Meulen Seminar of the IEEE Benelux Information Theory Chapter, TU Eindhoven
2016 Fiber‐optic Communication using Fast Nonlinear Fourier Transforms
TU Eindoven, Electro‐Optical Communication group
2016 Fiber‐optic Communication using Fast Nonlinear Fourier Transforms
Optical Fiber Conference, Anaheim, CA. Invited talk in the Systems and Subsystems track.
2015 Fast generation of multi‐solitons using the Darboux Transform
2nd Munich Workshop on Information Theory of Optical Fiber
2014 Towards Fast Inverse Nonlinear Fourier Transforms For Fiber‐Optic Communications
TU Munich, Institute for Communications Engineering
2014 Synthesis of Periodic Potentials for Zakharov‐Shabat Operators
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Operator Theory and Analysis Seminar
2014 Learning Multidimensional Fourier Series
Mini‐workshop on Signal Processing and Big Data, Aalto University, Finland