André Kaup#
© Peter Kraus
| Membership Number: | 7123 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.lms.tf.fau.eu/person/kaup-andre/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0929-5074 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - Present Full Professor and Head of the Chair, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- 2015 - 2017 Vice Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- 1999 - 2001 Adjunct Professor, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 1999 - 2001 Head of Competence Field Mobile Applications & Services, Siemens Corporate Research, Munich, Germany
- 1997 - 2001 Head of German MPEG Delegation and Head of German DIN Subcommittee on Multimedia
- 1995 - 1999 Senior Principal Engineer, Siemens Corporate Research, Munich, Germany
- 1989 - 1995 Research Assistant, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Image and video compression
- Statistical modeling in image communication
- Video signal processing
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Elected full member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering
- 2024 Diversity and Societal Impact Award, International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Karlshamn, Sweden
- 2023 Elected full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2023 Sustainability Award, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
- 2022 Certificate of Honor, Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE), Germany
- 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award, Bavarian Ministry of State for Science and Art, Munich
- 2019 Plenary Speaker, International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), Dubrovnik, Croatia
- 2018 Elected full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2015 Teaching Award of the Faculty of Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- 2013 Best Tool for High Efficiency Video Coding Award, Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) Grand Video Compression Challenge, San Jose, California
- 2013 Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), Bucharest, Romania (awarded the Paul Dan Christea Best Paper Prize).
- 2013 Plenary Speaker, International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, Iasi, Romania
- 2013 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Best Associate Editor Award
- 2013 Elected Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to video coding and object-based video signal processing”
- 1999 Information Technology Award, Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE), Germany
- 1998 Siemens Inventor of the Year Award
