!!André Kaup - Biography
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André Kaup received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. He joined Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany, in 1995, and became the Head of the Mobile Applications and Services Group in 1999. Since 2001, he has been a Full Professor and the Head of the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. From 2005 to 2007 he was Vice Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 603. From 2015 to 2017, he served as the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at FAU. He has authored more than 450 journal and conference papers and 60 contributions to standardization, and he has over 120 patents granted or pending. His research interests include image and video signal processing and coding, and multimedia communication.\\
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Dr. Kaup is a member of the IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German VDE/ITG. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. He was a Siemens Inventor of the Year 1998 and obtained the 1999 ITG Award. He received several IEEE best paper awards, including the Paul Dan Cristea Special Award in 2013, and his group won the Grand Video Compression Challenge from the Picture Coding Symposium 2013. The Faculty of Engineering at FAU and the State of Bavaria have honored him with Teaching Awards, in 2015 and 2020, respectively. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit akaup}][{ALLOW upload akaup}][{ALLOW comment All}]