News

02.25 Journal paper on Koopman-based fiber parameter detection accepted (IEEE/OSA JLT)
02.25 Invited talk in the seminar of the CRC Wave Phenomena
12.24 Paper on signal recovery using a spiked mixture model submitted
12.24 Paper on modulo-based sampling accepted for OFC'25
11.24 Elected into the steering committee of the KIT Center MathSEE
09.24 Member of the inaugural editorial board of the Journal of Nonlinear Waves (Camebridge University Press)
07.24 Paper on Fokas method-based control of the heat equation accepted for IEEE CDC
07.24 Paper on Koopman-based fiber change detection accepted for ECOC
06.24 Article on nonlinear Fourier analysis of rogue waves in the North Sea (NHESS)
05.24 Highly Ranked Scholar (ScholarGPS)
05.24 Article on nonlinear Fourier analysis of rogue waves in the Philippine Sea (PLOS One)
04/24 New course on nonlinear Fourier transforms and Koopman operators
02/24 Article on data-driven identification of AKNS Lax pairs (Wave Motion)
10/23 Talk by S. Aamir on Koopman-based fiber identification at ECOC
09/23 Article on blind polarization-demultiplexing for shaped QAMs (IEEE/Optica JLT)
09/23 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

Novel 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

Winter semester

Summer semester

2024 Highly Ranked Scholar (ScholarGPS)
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