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Gerd
received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994 and 1999,
respectively.
Since 1993 Gerd has been engaged in wireless communications and he
developed software (propagation models, network planning tools) and
hardware (measurement equipment, radio channel emulators, basestation
transceivers) for the
wireless industry.
Between 1994 and 1999, he was with the Institut für
Hochfrequenztechnik at the University of Stuttgart,
working on his PhD
thesis. In his thesis Gerd worked on the urban
and indoor mobile radio channel and developed different propagation models (empirical,
ray-optical and adaptive models) for
indoor and urban scenarios as
well as a high resolution
channel sounder which he used to validate the propagation models.
Gerd joined AWE Communications in 1998, where he first worked as a
R&D enginner in the field of radio network planning tools and
propagation models. Since 2001 Gerd worked additionally as a project
leader for customer specific R&D projects.
Today
Gerd is the CTO of the company and he is responsible for the
WinProp software suite including
ProMan, WallMan and AMan. He coordinates the
development activities for these software packages and he is
responsible for the integration of customer-specific extensions to the
suite.
In
1999, the University of Stuttgart asked Gerd to read a lecture about
mobile communications for the German
Diplom and MSc students and the international MSc students of InfoTech
(Information Technology). Approx. 60 students take the course each year
and some of them are working during their internship or Master thesis
for AWE
Communications.
Gerd's areas of interest are mobile communication networks and wave
propagation, wherein he has authored and co-authored more than 70 scientific papers. He got two best paper awards
at
international conferences and
holds international patents in USA, Japan and Europe.
Current
management responsibilities:
- CTO
- Evolution of the WinProp software suite
- Strategy and Roadmap
- Customer specific R&D projects
- APIs and interfaces to other products
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