Summary

Currently employed at TH Köln. Professor für Cyber-Physische Systeme an der TH Köln

Education

• Promotion der Informatik

  2014
  Leiden University
• Master of Science in Elektro- und Informationstechnik

  2009
  Fachhochschule Düsseldorf
• Bachelor of Science in Elektrotechnik

  2006
  Fachhochschule Köln

Work Experience

• Gruppenleiter Künstliche Intelligenz

  2018 - 2021
  Hahn-Schickard

  • Experte für Maschinelles Lernen und Computer Vision
  • Projektleitung und -akquise im Bereich KI
  • Aufbau und Leitung der 7-köpfigen KI Forschungsgruppe
• Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

  2016 - 2018
  Hahn-Schickard

  • Experte für Maschinelles Lernen und Computer Vision
  • Projektleitung und -akquise im Bereich Sensorfusion
  • Algorithmenentwicklung in C++, Matlab, Python
• Consultant

  2016 - 2016
  Trojan Technologies
• Postdoc Position

  2016 - 2016
  University of Western Ontario / Trojan Technologies
• Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

  2009 - 2016
  TH Köln

  • Experte für Maschinelles Lernen und Computer Vision
  • Projektleitung und -arbeit für acht Forschungsprojekte
  • Projektakquise, Präsentationen, Studentenbetreuung
• Lehrauftrag Mathematik

  2012 - 2013
  Fachhochschule Köln

  • Übungsleitung für Mathematik I und II
• Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft

  2006 - 2007
  Fachhochschule Köln

Publications

• Automatisierung einer Pilot-Biogasanlage mit LabVIEW

  1900
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• Betriebsoptimierung von Abfallvergärungsanlagen mittels Online-Messtechnik und Datenanalyse

  1900
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• Development of an easy-to-use Membrane WWTP Simulation Software

  1900
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• Dynamische Echtzeit-Optimierung der Substratzufuhr von landwirtschaftlichen Biogasanlagen

  1900
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• Gummersbach Environmental Computing Center

  1900
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• Messung organischer Säurekonzentration über UV/vis Spektroskopie

  1900
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• Modellbasierte Optimierung und Regelung zur nachhaltigen Energieerzeugung aus Biogas

  1900
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• Regelung der Substratzufuhr von Biogasanlagen--Ein Review

  1900
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• SUBSTRATE FEED OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL OF AGRICULTURAL BIOGAS PLANTS

  1900
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• Dynamic real-time substrate feed optimization of anaerobic co-digestion plants

  2005
  Water Science and Technology

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• Fusion of visual and inertial measurements for pose estimation

  2008
  dynamics

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• A comparison of performance of advanced pattern recognition methods for organic acid prediction in biogas plants using uv/vis spectroscopic online-measurements

  2010
  Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation (LSMS), Wuxi, China, 2010

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• Development of a Simulation Model for hollow-fiber and flat sheet membrane wastewater treatment Plants

  2010
  Crossing Borders within the ABC: Automation, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science

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• Organic acid prediction in biogas plants using UV/vis spectroscopic online-measurements

  2010
  International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment

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• Matlab toolbox for biogas plant modelling and optimization

  2011
  Progress in Biogas II-Biogas production from agricultural biomass and organic residues

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• Optimal control of biogas plants using nonlinear model predictive control

  2011
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• An advanced simulation model for membrane bioreactors: development, calibration and validation

  2012
  Water Science and Technology

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• Nonlinear model predictive substrate feed control of biogas plants

  2012
  2012 20th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED)

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• Predicting Organic Acids in Biogas Plants using UV/vis Spectrometry Online-Measurements

  2012
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• State estimation for anaerobic digesters using the ADM1

  2012
  Water science and technology

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• Predicting organic acid concentration from UV/vis spectrometry measurements--a comparison of machine learning techniques

  2013
  Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control

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• Steuerungs-und Regelungskonzepte für landwirtschaftliche Biogasanlagen

  2013
  Biogas in der Landwirtschaft--Stand und Perspektiven, Proceedings FNR/KTBL-Kongress

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• COD and NH 4-N estimation in the inflow of Wastewater Treatment Plants using Machine Learning Techniques

  2014
  2014 IEEE international conference on automation science and engineering (CASE)

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• Intelligent automation and IT for the optimization of renewable energy and wastewater treatment processes

  2014
  Energy, Sustainability and Society

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• Multi-objective nonlinear model predictive substrate feed control of a biogas plant

  2014
  Kompendium der Forschungsgemeinschaft: metabolon 2012-2014

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• Online-measurement systems for agricultural and industrial AD plants--A review and practice test

  2014
  Kompendium der Forschungsgemeinschaft: metabolon 2012-2014

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• Online monitoring of AD processes using a fully automated, low maintenance middle-infrared (MIR) measurement system

  2014
  Conf Proc Int Sci Conf Biogas Sci

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• Dynamische Echtzeit-Optimierung der Substratzufuhr für anaerobe Co-Vergärungsanlagen

  2015
  at-Automatisierungstechnik

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• Expected hypervolume improvement algorithm for PID controller tuning and the multiobjective dynamical control of a biogas plant

  2015
  2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)

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• Feed Control of Anaerobic Digestion Processes for Sustainable Renewable Energy Production: A Review

  2015
  Dubrovnik

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• Instrumentation and control of anaerobic digestion processes: a review and some research challenges

  2015
  Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology

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• Optimizing anaerobic co-digestion plants: MIR online instrumentation and dynamic real-time substrate feed optimization.

  2015
  Automatisierungstechnik

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• A bias compensated cross-relation approach to thermocouple characterisation

  2016
  IFAC-PapersOnLine

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• Multi-fidelity modeling and optimization of biogas plants

  2016
  Applied Soft Computing

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• Noise resilient discrete-time cross-relation sensor characterisation

  2016
  2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL)

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• Process optimization, advanced control, and computational fluid dynamics modelling of wastewater disinfection using peracids

  2016
  3rd IWA Specialiized International Conference Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment (EcoSTP 2016)

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• Feed control of anaerobic digestion processes for renewable energy production: A review

  2017
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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• This is How We Do It--Pilot Validation of a Dose (CT)-Based Control for Wastewater Disinfection with peracetic acid

  2017
  Proceedings of WEFTEC 2017-Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference 2017

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• Tightly coupled fusion of direct stereo visual odometry and inertial sensor measurements using an iterated information filter

  2017
  2017 DGON Inertial Sensors and Systems (ISS)

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• Wastewater disinfection by peracids: advanced dose control technology validation with pilot and modeling studies

  2017
  12th IWA Specialist Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA 2017)

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Presentations

• Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

  2012
  UC San Francisco, Department of Testing

  San Francisco, CA, USA
• Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

  2013
  UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science

  Berkeley, CA, USA

Teaching

• Künstliche Intelligenz

  2021
  TH Köln, Institut für Informatik

  Role: Undergraduate course
• Algorithmik

  2022
  TH Köln, Institut für Informatik

  Role: Undergraduate course

Portfolio

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