Professors

The fields of activitiy at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing (LMS) include:

• Video signal processing and transmission
• Audio signal processing
• Machine learning and deep learning

The following professors are teaching courses that are part of the CME curriculum:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Kaup
• Prof. Dr. Vasileios Belagiannis
• Prof. Dr. -Ing. Sebastian Schlecht

The Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing is also home of one of the founders of the Master’s degree program CME: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Kellermann (i.R. – retired).

The fields of activity at the Institute for Digital Communications (IDC) include:

• Next generation wireless communication
• Molecular and biological communication systems
• Machine learning, signal processing and information theory

The following professors are teaching courses that are part of the CME curriculum:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober
• Prof. Dr. Laura Cottatellucci
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Mueller
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Gerstacker

The International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (AudioLabs) are a cooperation between FAU, specifically the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) which is where mp3 has been developed.

The fields of activity at the AudioLabs include:

• 3D audio
• Audio coding
• Audio signal analysis
• Semantic audio processing
• Spatial audio signal processing
• Speech coding and communications technologies
• Virtual reality
• Internet of things in the audio domain

The following professors are teaching courses that are part of the CME curriculum:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Herre – Professorship of Audio Coding
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Edler – Professorship of Audio Signal Analysis
• Prof. Dr. ir. Emanuël Habets – Professorship of Perception-based Spatial Audio Signal Processing
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Meinard Müller – Professorship of Semantic Audio Signal Processing

In research and teaching, the LITES deals with the area of electronics engineering which is pivotal for electrical engineering, i.e. with hardware-oriented electronics. The scientific competences include nearly the entire food chain for the realization of circuits and systems, beginning with the modeling and the design of active and passive devices, modules and packages, proceeding to the design of monolithical or hybrid integrated RF/analog/mixed-signal circuits and the realization of complete electronic systems (including algorithms and software), and ranging to their evaluation in the laboratory as well as in the field. LITES has nearly all relevant design tools for the simulation on system, circuit and 3D-field (electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal and multi-physics) level as well as well-equipped laboratories from DC to over 320 GHz.

The following professors are teaching courses that are part of the CME curriculum:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Fischer
• Prof. Dr. Norman Franchi

Since its inception fifty years ago at the University of Erlangen, Germany, the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics (LHFT) has become a worldclass center for microwave research and scholarship.

Electrical engineering as applied to microwaves und millimeter waves through the Terahertz (THz) range and on up to photonics/laser systems are at the focus of teaching and research at LHFT. On the hardware and systems side, the academic staff at LHFT deal with the entire spectrum from component level, through submodules up to fully integrated systems.

The following professors are teaching courses that are part of the CME curriculum:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Krieger
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Schmauß
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Vossiek

The fields of activity at the Chair of Information Technology with a focus on Communication Electronics (LIKE) include:

• Telemetrics
• Navigation and positioning
• Satellite communication

The following professors are teaching courses that are part of the CME curriculum:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Robert – Professorship for localization systems

The Pattern Recogntion Lab is part of the Department of Computer Science at FAU.

Researchers and students at the Pattern Recognition Lab (LME) work on the development and implementation of algorithms to classify and analyze patterns like images or speech. The research is mostly interdisciplinary and is focussed on medical and health engineering.

The following professors are teaching courses that are part of the CME curriculum:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Maier
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elmar Nöth