Awards

We are pleased to announce that Vanessa Wirth, on behalf of her co-authors, won the Digital Rheumatology Research Award 2024 for the paper "ShaRPy: Shape Reconstruction and Hand Pose Estimation from RGB-D with Uncertainty", previously published at IEEE/CVF ICCVW. Among all nominations, this award i...

Nikita Shanin won the 2nd Prize at the Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) Competition organized by the IEEE Communications Society. The 4MT Competition challenged PhD students to explain their research topic to a broad non-specialist audience in just 4 minutes. In the preliminary round of the competition, the...

The "Highly Cited Researchers List" also lists the 7127 most influential researchers worldwide in 2023. With 336 researchers on the list, Germany is in 4th place. Prof. Dr. Robert Schober, PI in our EmpkinS project B02, is once again one of the most cited scientists in his field. The Highly Cited ...

We’re super proud of EmpkinS student Victoria Müller (MaD Lab), who participated in the ZEISS Women Award. Out of a pool of nearly 200 participants, Victoria was voted among the Top 10 finalists and was invited to the award ceremony in Dresden. Victoria consistently contributed to MaD Lab...

Exciting news: Our postdoc Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Ullmann won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Sensors Conference in Vienna. The paper "Radar-Based Continuous Human Activity Recognition with Multi-Label Classification" is based on a cooperation with TU Delft. Ingrid had the opportunity to visit Delft last...

The Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) is awarding the Merit Medal three times this year for exceptional services to the university. Our PI Peter Dabrock is one of the dignitaries. Peter Dabrock has been a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Friedrich Alexander University for 13 years. He h...

Exciting News! Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun, a renowned researcher in Social Ethics, has been honored with the prestigious Falling Walls Prize in the "SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES" category! Prof. Braun's groundbreaking work delves into the intersection of technology, ethics, and society, explori...

We’re pleased to announce that the research of our EmpkinS Collaborative Research Center was awarded at this year's IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference (BHI ’23) (https://bhi.embs.org/2023/) in Pittsburgh, USA!   The paper “Markerless RGB-D hand pose estimation for activity ...

A team of superlatives: EmpkinS PhD students once again competed against other groups from all over the world in several categories of the Student Design Competitions at the International Microwave Symposium in San Diego, USA, and won four times against very strong competition:- 1st place in Noncont...

We congratulate Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun for receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grant! With 1,5 Million Euros allocated to 5 research-years Prof. Dr. Braun and his team will research ethical questions in the realm of "digital twins", which are simulations of certain body-functions or organs w...

Prof. Dr. Schett (D01) has been awarded one of the highest honors: the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most important German research funding prize! Prof. Dr. Georg Schett is one of the leading international scientists in the field of inflammation and immune medicine with groundbreaking find...

We cordially congratulate Alexander German (sub-project B04) for being named the FAU Innovator 2022! In the category of student-innovators, Alexander satisfied the jury with his principle of “Voxelomics”. Voxel are spatial imaging, which help in visualizing physical tissue properties in radiologi...

We are proud to announce that our P.I. of subproject C02, Dr.Ing. Jörg Miehling, becomes funding member of the Emerging Talents Initiative. He will be supported by the ETI in the twelve-month-period January 2023 - January 2024.   For more information about the ETI please visit: https://ww...

We are happy to announce that two of our EmpkinS-PIs, Prof. Dr. med. Georg Schett (B02) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober (D01) were recognized as members of the „Highly Cited Researchers List“! This list contains 6,938 of the most influential scientists from around the globe. 396 scientists from Ge...

We cordially congratulate Martin Vossiek for his appointment as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (T-RS)! The IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, were recently launched by a founding team, in which Martin Vossiek also participated. The IEEE T-RS focuses on ad...

We cordially congratulate Tabea Ott from sub-project E for winning the Young Scholar’s Paper Award of Societas Ethica for her outstanding presentation on “Patients in Health Care as Data Assemblages – a Threat to Human Integrity?” in Zurich, Switzerland. ? She received the award on the 27th of Au...

Congratulations, Markus Heyder, for this great success at the Machine Learning in Engineering Initiative Summer School During the first summer school of the Hamburg Initiative “Machine Learning in Engineering” our PhD student Markus Heyder was extremely successful in presenting his EmpkinS PhD topi...

Our PhD students Hui Lu from the Institute of High-Frequency Technology at TUHH and Julia Yip from the Department of Palliative Care at the Anesthesiology Clinic of the University Hospital Erlangen won the Best Poster Award of the Physionet Challenge 2022