Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus-Rüdiger Fellbaum

Former director 1994-2007

Resume

  • 1942 born in Berlin
  • 1962 Abitur
  • 1964 to 1971 Studies of Electrical Engineering (focus on Telecommunications) at the universities of technology in Hanover and Berlin
  • 1971 to 1975 scientific assistant at the research institute of AEG-Telefunken (today Daimler Benz) in Ulm, field of study: electronic speech signal processing
  • 1975 doctoral studies as external doctoral candidate at the TU Berlin with a thesis on speech coding methods
  • 1975 to 1977 Senior Engineer at the Chair of Telecommunications at the University of Dortmund
  • 1977 appointment as professor at the TU Berlin, chair of digital transmission technology
  • 1994 Appointed to the Chair of Communication Technology at BTU Cottbus; field of study: Narrowband and broadband communication, methods and applications of electronic speech signal processing, electronic communication aids for the disabled, multimedia communication
  • 2001 Elected dean of the Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Business Administration and Engineering faculty

Supervisor of scientific work:

  • Supervisor of 16 dissertations as first supervisor, another 15 dissertations as second supervisor as well as a habilitation

Research areas and projects:

  • Methods and applications of electronic speech signal processing
  • Auditory measurement methods for speech signals
  • Applications of speech technology for blind and deaf people
  • Human-machine communication
  • Teleteaching/Telelearning
  • Staff Member of the BmFT research project "Speech Processing" (SPICOS)
  • Scientific project manager in the BmFT joint research project VESPRA
  • Project leader in the BmA research project "Disabled Communication Systems
  • Project partner in the EC projects TIDE-GUIB and ONOMASTICA
  • Project leader in the BMBF project "E-Learning-Modules
  • numerous other research projects; funded by DFG and TU Berlin

see also research profile

Publications:

Approx. 100 publications; author or editor of twelve monographs focusing on the following topics:

  • Speech processing
  • telematic services
  • electronic communication aids for the disabled

see also publications

Other activities:

  • Organizer of several international and national conferences on electronic speech signal processing; General Chairman of the international conference EUROSPEECH '93
  • Expert reviewer in the EC projects ESPRIT (Speech Processing Project SPIN) and TIDE; Expert in the European project COST 219 (Future Communication Aids for Disabled People)
  • Member of ten appointment committees of the TU Dresden