Johannes Huber

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Johannes Huber

Professor im Ruhestand

Department Elektrotechnik-Elektronik-Informationstechnik (EEI)
Lehrstuhl für Digitale Übertragung

Raum: Raum 04.021
Cauerstraße 7
91058 Erlangen

Biography

Johannes Huber received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1977. From 1977 to 1982 he was a research assistant at the Federal Armed Forces University Munich from which he received the Dr.-Ing. degree with a thesis on coding for channels with memory. From 1982 to 1990, he was an Akademischer Oberrat at the same university and received the Dr.-Ing. habil. degree with a thesis on trellis coded modulation. In spring 1991, he joined the IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland. From autumn 1991 until spring 2017, he was Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

His research interests are information and coding theory, modulation schemes, algorithms for signal detection and adaptive equalization for channels with severe intersymbol interference, signalling, detection and equalization or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels and concatenated coding together with iterative decoding.Johannes Huber is Fellow of the IEEE. In 2008 he was appointed a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Since 2009, Johannes Huber is an ordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He served as an Editor-in-Chief and as an Associate Editor for several international journals on information theory and communications.

CV Details

Johannes B. Huber 

born: August 24, 1951 in Hausham (Oberbayern), Germany, German citizen 

1. Academic Degrees: 

  • Master (Dipl.-Ing. (Univ.)) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Munich, Germany, September 1977 
  • Ph. D. (Dr.-Ing.) from the Federal Armed Forces University Munich, Germany, July 1982 
  • Second Ph. D. (Dr.-Ing. habilitatus) from the Federal Armed Forces University Munich, Germany, July 1991 
  • Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, November 1991 
  • Chaired Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, August 1997 
  • Dr. hc. From the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Austria, November 2017 

2. Professional Career: 

  • 1977 Research Assistant at the Technical University Munich, Germany (Prof. Marko) 
  • 1977 – 1982 Research Assistant at the Federal Armed Forces University, Munich (Prof. Troendle) 
  • 1983 – 1991 Senior Research Assistant at the Federal Armed Forces University, Munich 
  • 1991 Visiting Scientist at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland, joint research work together with Dr. Gottfried Ungerboeck 
  • 1991 – 1997 Professor for Signal and Information Theory at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 
  • 1997 2017 Chaired Professor and Director of the Institute for Information Transmission at the University of Erlangen 
  • Since 2017 Retirement April 1, 2017 

3. Honorary Appointments 

  • 1994 – 1996 Dean for students’ affairs of the Technical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 
  • 1996 – 1999 Ass. Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (for Coding Theory) 
  • 1993 -2006 Ass. Editor for AEUE International Journal on Electronics and Communications 
  • 1998 – 2002 Editor-in-Chief of AEUE International Journal on Electronics and Communications 
  • 1999 – 2003 Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society 
  • 1997-2017 Chairman of the Telecommunications Laboratory of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 
  • 2001-2003 Chairman of the Department for Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering 
  • 2001 -2015 Vice-director of the Summer Academy for high potential students of the Munich University of Technology and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 
  • 2000/2002/2004 Co-Chairman of the 3, 4, 5th International ITG – Conference on Source and Channel Coding 
  • 2004 -2006 Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society 
  • 2005 – 2010 Chairman of the FAU Elite-Program “Systems of Information and Multimedia Technologies” 
  • 2005/2006 Chairman of the Technical Program Committee for the 4th International Symposium on Turbo Codes jointly with the 6th International ITG – Conference on Source and Channel Coding 
  • 2007-2009 Dean of the School of Engineering (Technische Fakultät) of the University of Erlangen (7000 students) 
  • 2009/10/11 Member of the IEEE A.G. Bell Medal Committee 
  • 2014 Chairman of the Technical Program Committee for the 8th International Symposium on Turbo Codes 
  • Since 2014 Member of the IEEE J. C. Maxwell Award Committee 
  • Since 2015 Chairman of the committee “Forum Technologie” of the Bavarian Academy for Science and Humanities 
  • Since 2016 Vice Chairman of section III (Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering) of the Bavarian Academy for Science and Humanities 

4. (Former) Teaching 

  • Introduction to Electrical Engineering for Mechanical Engineers 
  • Introduction to Information Technology for Computational Engineers 
  • Communication Engineering 
  • Digital Communications 
  • Information Theory 
  • Advanced Topics in Information Theory 
  • Channel Coding 
  • Seminar 
  • Laboratory Exercises 
  • Seminars for high potential students (Summer Academy) 
  • Annual Guest-Professorship at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt, Linz 
  • Supervisor of about 180 Diplom(Master-) theses

5. PhD Students 

Dr. W. Liu, Prof. Dr. K-P. Graf, Prof. Dr. F. Engelberger, Prof. Dr. Heiner Beckmann, Dr. P. Schramm, Prof. Dr. R. Fischer, Dr. B. Spinnler, Dr. U. Wachsmann, Prof. Dr. W. Gerstacker, Dr. J. Hamorsky, Prof. Dr. R. R. Müller, Dr. E. Urba, Dr. S. Müller-Weinfurtner, Prof. Dr. R. Schober, Prof. Dr. S. Badri-Hoeher, Dr. J. Eggers, Dr. M. Breiling, Prof. Dr. L. Lampe, Dr. D. Schill, Prof. Dr. A. Lampe, Dr. A. Gesell, Dr. S. Huettinger, Dr. T Dorsch, Dr. C. Windpassinger, Dr. J. Roessler, Dr. Zhao Lu, Dr. G. Tauboeck, Dr. U. Berold, Dr. V. Pauli, Dr. B. Matschkal, Dr. T. Hehn, Prof. Dr. G. Bumiller, Dr. C. Stierstorfer, Dr. R. Tzschoppe, Dr. Stefan Ländner, Dr. R. Bianchi, Dr. M. Mayrock, Dr. M. Hoch, Dr. A. Ravanshid, Dr. A. Schenk, Dr. B. E. Schotsch, Dr. M. Seidl, Dr. F. Schuh, Dr. Martin Hirschbeck, Dr. M. Cyran, Dr. A. Stefani, Dr. A. Lehmann, Dr. Ch. Rachinger, Dr. F. Gruber, Dr. J. Frenzel 

6. Research Fields 

  • Channel Coding (Concatenated Codes, Turbo-Codes, LDPC-Codes, Polar Codes etc.) 
  • Coding for Channels with Memory  
  • Coded Modulation (Trellis Codes, Multilevel-Codes) 
  • Equalization of Data Signal and OFDM 
  • Precoding and Shaping 
  • Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) 
  • CDMA and Multiuser-Detection 
  • Non coherent Communication Schemes 
  • Reliability versus Latency in Digital Communications w.r.t. Coding and Equalization 
  • Vector Quantization, 
  • Network Coding, Relaying, 
  • Digital Transmission via Subscriber Lines (DSL) 
  • Powerline Communications (PLC) 
  • Digital Communication via Optical Fibres 
  • Application of Information Theory in Biology

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