Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Prof. Dr. Michael Gerke

The Chair of Control Engineering develops autonomous driving and flying robots. Modern sensor technology, hardware, software and control technology are combined for this purpose. One focus is autonomous driving, for which work is being carried out on journey planning, map generation and obstacle avoidance.

Prof. Dr. Frank Gronwald

In the "Reliability of Technical Systems & Electrical Measurement Technology" department, we impart important knowledge of electrical measurement technology and process measurement technology in lectures and practical courses. We are also active in other courses on the fundamentals of electrical engineering. In research, we concentrate on the cross-sectional topics of "Reliability of Technical Systems" and "Electromagnetic Compatibility", for which we also offer lectures and work together with partners in industry and other institutions. On site in Siegen, we have a laboratory specifically for investigations into electromagnetic compatibility as well as simulation software for calculating and analyzing high-frequency electromagnetic fields."

Prof. Dr. Oliver Wallscheid

The Interconnected Automation Systems (IAS) Chair researches and teaches in the field of distributed systems with a focus on power electronics, drive technology and mechatronics. This includes hardware and software aspects relating to the modeling, design, integration and control of such systems at the intersection of engineering and data science methods. In addition to basic academic research, the transfer to experimental studies and industrial applications is of particular importance.

Dr. Steffen Jaschke

Prof. Dr. Ralf Dreher

The "Technology Didactics" department at the vocational college was established as an endowed chair of Siegerland industry in order to counter the substantial shortage of teachers for industrial-technical vocational training in the region. The chair has implemented a nationwide study concept for the vocational fields of metal technology, electrical engineering and technical computer science, which has the core of acquiring independent and sustainable work process knowledge through teaching development projects in the technical didactic laboratories in order to develop teaching units (learning situations) based on this.

Similarly, in close cooperation with regional industry in particular, research is being conducted into the structures and content of work processes in a working reality characterized by the transformation of industrial work through the use of Industry 4.0, AI and additive manufacturing technologies. Research here includes the recording and description of prototypical work processes, the development of the necessary measures for teacher training and forms of internal differentiation of vocational training for the traditionally very heterogeneous groups of teachers in cooperation with social associations and the employment agency.

Prof. Dr. Roland Wismüller

The chair is concerned with system-oriented programming, distributed systems and electronic practice and examination systems. Specifically, we are currently developing a virtual machine for secure collaboration in component-based systems, a system for the simple visualization of algorithms, as well as learning and tutoring systems for programming training. A particular focus is on automated feedback generation using large language models (LLMs).

Prof. Dr. Roman Obermaisser

The Chair of Embedded Systems is concerned with real-time capability, reliability, security and adaptivity in distributed embedded systems and at the chip level. In addition to basic research in the field of system architectures, design methods and fault tolerance, this also includes applications in medical technology, the automotive industry, avionics, energy systems and industrial automation. For example, the chair develops scheduling algorithms for the temporal and spatial planning of safety-relevant applications with their calculations and communication in the cloud edge continuum. The components and services developed include software, hardware and tools, which are evaluated experimentally in simulations and physical systems. One focus is on techniques for embedded artificial intelligence with reliable AI accelerators for safety-critical applications.

Prof. Dr. Malte Lochau

The Model-Based Development (MBE) group researches and teaches in the areas of software engineering and database systems, with a particular focus on techniques and tools for the holistic use of formal models in the software development process. Special emphasis is placed on the areas of configurable software and variant management, the assurance of software quality through software testing and quantum software engineering.

Prof. Dr. Kristof Van Laerhoven

Our research aims at a new generation of small and embedded computing systems equipped with basic processing and sensing modules that are able to detect, monitor, react to and learn from phenomena in their environment. We are particularly interested in obtaining multiple simple (and therefore more difficult to use) sensor signals in low-power devices, rather than solutions that focus on a few high-quality signals, which tend to be more expensive, complex and/or vulnerable.

Prof. Dr. Markus Lohrey

The Theoretical Computer Science group deals with algorithmic and complexity-theoretical questions from automata theory, algebra (especially group theory) and database theory. One focus is on algorithms that work directly on compressed data without first decompressing it. In particular, we investigate grammar-based compression methods that decompose complex objects hierarchically and identify recurring patterns and replace them with macros. We are also interested in algorithms on data streams (streaming algorithms).

Prof. Dr. Bhaskar Choubey

The chair deals with the development and research of analog and integrated circuits, in particular for image processing systems, CMOS image sensors and microelectromechanical systems. The current focus is also on the hardware implementation of artificial intelligence, for example using memristors, with applications in the financial and economic sectors.

Prof. Dr. Ivo Ihrke

The Chair of Computational Sensing / Communications Engineering deals with the research field of computational imaging - the development and implementation of imaging systems in which algorithmic processing plays a central role.

The focus is on a holistic approach: from experimental planning and modeling through numerical methods to practical implementation, data acquisition, algorithm development and evaluation. By considering the entire imaging chain, the full optimization potential of such systems is to be exploited.

Prof. Dr. Peter Haring-Bolivar and Prof. Dr. Bernd Buxbaum

The focus of teaching and research is on the development and analysis of photonic and quantum electronic components for high-frequency applications, particularly in security-relevant and information technology systems as well as in life science applications.

Prof. Dr. Elmar Griese & Dr. Thomas Kühler

The Chair of Theoretical Electrical Engineering and Photonics conducts research into short-range optical interconnects for electrical environments. The focus is on the design and development of processing techniques for optical waveguides in thin glass by diffusion - i.e. ion exchange technologies - for integration into electrical circuit boards. In particular, optical directional couplers for bidirectional connections are the subject of research work. Optical waveguides provide significantly higher data rates than can be achieved with electrical connections. The chair is also a point of contact for solving electrodynamic field problems using adapted numerical methods for practical applications. Teaching covers the areas of "Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering", "Fundamentals of Signal and System Theory", "Numerical Methods", "Electromagnetic Field Theory" and "Optical and Electrical Signal Transmission" in German and English.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Ruland

Prof. Dr. Bing Li

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kolb

The Chair of Computer Graphics and Multimedia Systems deals with all aspects of image synthesis, starting with the generation of 3D models of complex objects and scenes (modelling), the generation of geometric objects from real situations or abstract data fields (visualization), the simulation of visual natural phenomena and physically based lighting calculation through to efficient methods of image generation (rendering).

Prof. Dr. Michael Möller

The Computer Vision Group conducts research in the field of mathematical image processing, machine vision and machine learning with a special focus on the combination of machine learning and energy minimization methods. In this context, we are interested in efficient optimization techniques, convex relaxations, inverse problems and provable properties of deep neural networks in the above mentioned areas.

Prof. Dr. Jöran Beel & Prof. Dr. André Klahold

The Intelligent Systems Group (ISG) conducts research in the areas of recommender systems (RecSys), personalization and information retrieval (IR) as well as automated machine learning (AutoML), meta-learning and algorithm selection. Areas we are particularly interested in include smart places, eHealth, manufacturing (Industry 4.0), mobility, visual computing and digital libraries.

Prof. Dr. Volker Blanz

The Chair of Media Informatics deals with various aspects of machine and human vision, including in the context of image segmentation, face recognition and the three-dimensional reconstruction of faces from individual images. One focus of current research is on biologically motivated models and architectures.

Junior Professor Dr. Jovita Lukasik

The Visual Computing Group deals with machine vision and learning. One focus is on the automatic development of neural networks. We want to find out how such networks can become more efficient and remain robust against disturbances in images. We are also researching new approaches to better understand how neural networks make decisions - and how to bring them closer to human decision-making.