Welcome to my profile page! Here you can find out what I have done in the past. I have spent more than a decade in domains such as software defined radio, signal processing, software development, and team management. My professional interests and activities include research (both in an academic and in an industrial context), software development, education, and anything SDR-related.
Resume
| Period | Occupation |
|---|---|
| 2020 - now | Principal Engineer at NI. Dresden, Germany. Technical Lead, Ettus Research. |
| 2018 - 2020 | Senior Group Manager at Ettus Research, a National Instruments Brand. Santa Clara, California. Supervising and hiring manager for the software team. Project and tech lead for projects such as RFNoC, UHD 4.0. |
| 2017 - 2018 | Software Group Manager at Ettus Research, a National Instruments Brand. Santa Clara, California. |
| 2014 - 2016 | Senior Software Design Engineer at Ettus Research, a National Instruments Brand. Santa Clara, California. |
| 2020 - now | Vice President at GNU Radio. |
| 2012 - 2020 | Project Officer and Community Manager at GNU Radio. |
| 2014 - 2017 | Senior Software Design Engineer at Ettus Research, a National Instruments Brand. Santa Clara, California. Designed and developed software around UHD, RFNoC, GNU Radio and other SDR-related software stacks. |
| 2008 - 2013 | Research Associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Conducted research in the domains signal processing, radar algorithms, and software defined radio. Supervised over 25 graduation theses. Taught classes in wireless communications and SDR. |
| 2006 - 2008 | Student Research Assistant at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Developed software for data analysis and signal processing. Teaching assistant. |
| 2007 | Intern at Rohde & Schwarz, Munich, Germany. Developed signal processing software. |
Education
- January 2014: Graduated Dr.-Ing. (PhD), Summa Cum Laude, from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
- Topic: OFDM Radar Algorithms in Mobile Communications Networks [PDF]
- Advisor: Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr.rer.nat Friedrich Jondral (Communications Engineering Lab)
- Co-Advisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerd Wanielik
- 2008: Graduated Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering & Information Technology from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.
- Dipl.-Ing. Thesis Topic: Compressed Sensing in a Cognitive Radio Context
- 2002-2008: Electrical Engineering & Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- October 2006 - April 2007: Signal Processing at Ecole Centrale Marseille, France (ERASMUS).
- 2001: Abitur at Goethe Gymnasium Germersheim, Germany.
Publications & Presentations
Please refer to my publications page for a full list of publications and presentations.
Open Source Involvement
Open Source and Free Software have been a passion of mine for a long time, and within the GNU Radio project, and while developing UHD and RFNoC, I was able to combine SDR and free software. Open source software can be used to increase efficiency and revenue, to educate and teach students of all levels, or to connect like-minded minds across the globe. All of these aspects are equally interesting to me, and I have created or co-created various projects such as RFNoC or PyBOMBS, I have organized events such as the FOSDEM free software radio track and the GNU Radio participation in the Google Summer of Code, and of course I enjoy publishing code.
Rig
This is a list of preferred tools I use for various tasks:
- Vim (my vimrc)
- Ergodox EZ (my qmk), although a MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 will also work
- zsh + Powerlevel9k
- If it’s not git, it’s probably not actually revision control
Affiliations
- IEEE Member since 2005
- KjG (Katholische Junge Gemeinde) Member since 1990