THz Science and Technology Seminar (TSTS) Series: Mobile Material Characterization and Localization by Electromagnetic Sensing (MARIE)
More than 100 years ago, scientists invented a mobile image receiver to take pictures anywhere. More than 30 years ago, engineers
invented a Mobile Communication Transceiver to make phone calls anywhere. 8 years ago, at the MARIE Collaborative Research Center, we
began researching a Mobile Material Transceiver to map surface and subsurface materials anywhere. Now, in the final phase ending in 2028,
we want to realize the vision of Mapping Materials for Dynamic Environments. All of the necessary breakthrough inventions are based on
major technological advances that will allow us to move successively from electronic, photonic, and micromechanical components through
integrated circuits to compact mobile devices. Following these steps, we aim to greatly extend the benefits of today's static and bulky materials
characterization systems to mobile materials transceivers. This will lead to significant innovations in a wide range of societal applications: mobile detection of the source of a fire or of unconscious people in a burning building, rapid detection of cables and artifacts inside a wall, or, in general, autonomous creation of material maps, e.g. for localization and classification of objects in arbitrary indoor and outdoor environments. The talk will present the structure of MARIE, the main results and the goal for the last four years until its end in 2028.
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- Date: 05 May 2025
- Time: 01:00 PM UTC to 02:30 PM UTC
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- Co-sponsored by Staracom
- Starts 18 April 2025 01:00 PM UTC
- Ends 05 May 2025 12:30 PM UTC
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Speakers
Thomas Kaiser of Institute of Digital Signal Processing University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg, Germany
Thomas Kaiser (M'98-SM'04) received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, in 1991, and his Ph.D. (with distinction) and German Habilitation in Electrical Engineering from the Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. From 1995 to 1996, he spent a research leave at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. From April 2000 to March 2001, he was head of the Department of Communication Systems, Gerhard Mercator University, and from April 2001 to March 2002, head of the Department of Wireless Chips and Systems, Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, Duisburg. From April 2002 to July 2006 he was co-leader of the Smart Antenna Research Team, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg. In summer 2005 he joined the Smart Antenna Research Group, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and in winter 2007 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, both as Visiting Professor. From 2006 to 2011, he was head of the Institute for Communications Technology at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
He heads the Institute for Digital Signal Processing at the University of Duisburg-Essen and is the founder and CEO of ID4us GmbH, an RFID-centric company. He is the author and co-author of more than 350 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and two books entitled "Ultra Wideband Systems with MIMO (Wiley, 2010)" and "Digital Signal Processing for RFID (Wiley, 2015)" and is the spokesman of the Collaborative Research Center "Mobile Material Characterization and Localization by Electromagnetic Sensing" (MARIE). Dr. Kaiser was the founding editor-in-chief of the e-letter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and general chair of several IEEE international conferences, such as the IEEE Conference on Mobile and Miniaturized THz Systems in 2018-2025. He has also co-founded several high-tech startups.