Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sander Wahls
- Director of the Institute
- office hours:
by arrangement
- room: 123
- phone: +49 721 608-44520
- sander wahls ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Hertzstraße 16
Geb. 06.35
76187 Karlsruhe
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
Honors and Awards
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2023 Highlight paper in the EGU journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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2022 Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (non-student co-author)
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2021 Honorable Mention, Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (non-student co-author)
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2020 Highly scored paper at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
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2018 Highly cited paper in Web of Science
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2017 Second‐most cited paper in the OSA journal Optica
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2016 ERC Starting Grant
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