Tim Fingscheidt received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in 1998 from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, both with distinction. He joined AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA, for a PostDoc in 1998 and Siemens AG (Mobile Devices), Munich, Germany, in 1999, heading a signal processing development team. After a stay with Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany, from 2005 to 2006, he became Full Professor with the Institute for Communications Technology, Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig, Germany, holding the Chair of “Signal Processing and Machine Learning”. His research interests are machine learning in vision and time series such as speech, with focus on environment perception, signal classification, coding, and enhancement. He is founder of the TU Braunschweig Deep Learning Lab (tubs.DLL), a graduate student research thinks tank being active in publicly funded and industry research projects. Many of his projects have been dealing with automotive application
