Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sander Wahls
- Director of the Institute
- office hours:
by arrangement
- room: 123
- phone: +49 721 608-44520
- sander wahls ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Hertzstraße 16
Geb. 06.35
76187 Karlsruhe
News
- 09.24 Member of the inaugural editorial board of the Journal of Nonlinear Waves (Camebridge University Press)
- 07.24 Paper on Fokas method-based control of the heat equation accepted for IEEE CDC
- 07.24 Paper on Koopman-based fiber change detection accepted for ECOC
- 06.24 Article on nonlinear Fourier analysis of rogue waves in the North Sea (NHESS)
- 05.24 Highly Ranked Scholar (ScholarGPS)
- 05.24 Article on nonlinear Fourier analysis of rogue waves in the Philippine Sea (PLOS One)
- 04/24 New course on nonlinear Fourier transforms and Koopman operators
- 02/24 Article on data-driven identification of AKNS Lax pairs (Wave Motion)
- 10/23 Talk by S. Aamir on Koopman-based fiber identification at ECOC
- 09/23 Article on blind polarization-demultiplexing for shaped QAMs (IEEE/Optica JLT)
- 09/23 Article on detecting significant solitons (IEEE/Optica JLT)
- 08/23 Talk at the MPI-PKS Workshop on Extreme Waves
- 08/23 Vacancies: Research associates / PhD students in the area signal processing methods
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2015 - 2017 | Delft University of Technology | University Teaching Qualification |
| 2008 - 2011 | Technical University of Berlin | Doctoral degree in electrical engineering (Dr.-Ing.) with distinction |
| 2002 - 2007 | Technical University of Berlin | Diplom degree in mathematics (Dipl.-Math.) |
Employment
| Since July 2023 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Full professor and Head of the Institute of Industrial Information Technology |
| 2019 - July 2023 | Delft University of Technology | Associate Professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control |
| 2014 - 2019 | Delft University of Technology | Assistant Professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control |
| 2012 - 2014 | Princeton University | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering (Group of Prof. H. Vincent Poor) |
| 2010 - 2012 | Technical University of Munich | Research Associate at the Chair of Theoretical Information Technology (Prof. Holger Boche) |
| 2008 - 2010 | Technical University of Berlin | Research Associate at the Chair of Theoretical Information Technology and Information Theory (Prof. Holger Boche) |
| 2005 - 2007 | Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute for Telecommunications | Student Assistant at the Department for Broadband Mobile Communication Networks |
Research
- Novel signal processing methods, also machine learning and control
- Various application areas (e.g. optics, communications engineering, oceanography, ...)
- Nonlinear waves and applied nonlinear Fourier analysis (inverse scattering method)
- Application of Koopman operators in engineering
Honors and Awards
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2024 Highly Ranked Scholar (ScholarGPS)
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2023 Highlight paper in the EGU journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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2022 Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (non-student co-author)
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2021 Honorable Mention, Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (non-student co-author)
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2020 Highly scored paper at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
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2018 Highly cited paper in Web of Science
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2017 Second‐most cited paper in the OSA journal Optica
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2016 ERC Starting Grant