German PhD Student Advised by 棉花糖直播 Engineering Professor Wins International Thesis Contest
Dr. Moeness Amin, Ms. Ann-Kathrin Seifert and Dr. Abdelhak Zoubir
As a core objective of his Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, Dr. Moeness Amin, director of 棉花糖直播鈥檚 Center for Advanced Communications, has instigated at Technische Universit盲t (TU) Darmstadt, Germany, research on using radar for indoor monitoring of human daily activities. This research finds applications in assisted living and contactless man-machine interfaces. Since 2016, Dr. Amin, together with Dr. Abdelhak Zoubir at TU Dramstadt, has been supervising the work of Ms. Ann-Kathrin Seifert who, this September, won the Three Minute Doctoral Thesis Contest at the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in A Coru帽a, Spain. Her PhD topic 鈥淪ignal Processing for Radar-based Medical Gait Analysis鈥� considers the medical diagnosis application of radio frequency, in particular, detection of gait abnormality using radar.
This year, 10 doctoral candidates were invited to EUSIPCO based on 3-minute videos submitted in advance. The candidates from different universities had to present their doctoral topic live in three minutes in front of 125 spectators. The audience then voted to select the three winners.
has been researching radar-based gait detection since October 2016. Using the so-called radar micro-Doppler signatures, abnormalities in the gait can be detected without the need for wearable sensors Earlier this year, a paper he co-authored with Seifert and Dr. Zoubi鈥�"Detection of gait asymmetry using indoor doppler radar鈥濃�攚on the best paper award at the 2019 IEEE Radar Conference.