Academic Education / PhD Work

1993 - 1999

Computer Science student at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA; diploma from FAU received in April 2000

2004 - 2007

Researcher at Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (project: SmartWeb)

2013 - 2014

Private PhD studies in Oxford, United Kingdom (sabbatical year)

since 2016

PhD candidate at Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg; topic: Using Contextual Information to Process Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Spoken Dialog Systems

Work Experience

2000 - 2009

Project manager and software developer at Sympalog

2009 - 2013

Software developer and product manager (product: Symphoria) at Fraunhofer IIS

2014 - 2015

Project coordinator at Fraunhofer IIS (project: Interactive and Immersive Audio for Television based on MPEG-H)

Hobbies

• Sports (basketball, climbing, snowboarding)
• Poetry
• Singing