Gerhard Paul Fettweis (born March 16, 1962, in Wilrijk) is a German electrical engineer and university professor for telecommunications engineering.[1]
Gerhard's father Alfred Fettweis invented the Wave Digital Filter. With a scholarship from the prestigious Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes,[2] Gerhard Fettweis studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 1981 to 1986, and received his Dr.-Ing. (PhD in engineering) degree there in 1990.[3] He then worked as a visiting scholar with IBM and TCSI Inc. in Berkeley. Since 1994, he has been holding the Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications Systems at Dresden University of Technology.[4] In 2009, he was honored with Fellow membership of the IEEE for contributions to signal processing algorithms and chip implementation architectures for communications.[5] In 2016, he became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Neugewählte Mitglieder 2016" (PDF) (in German). German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
- ^ Jahresbericht 2017 (in German). Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. p. 79.
- ^ Fettweis, Gerhard; Epple, Wolfgang K.; Meyer, Ernst Harald (1990). Parallelisierung des Viterbi-Decoders: Algorithmus und VLSI-Architektur (in German). ISBN 3-18-144410-3.
- ^ "Gerhard Fettweis". Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communication Systems. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 2009". IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
- ^ "Gerhard Fettweis" (in German). German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
External links
edit- Gerhard Fettweis at the Vodafone Chair's website
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