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Contents 1 Guided Research in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2010/2011) 1.1 What is Guided Research? 1.2 Registration 1.3 Schedule 1.4 Grading 1.5 Submissions 1.6 CS Presentations 1.7 EE Presentations 1.8 Topics 1.8.1 Birk 1.8.2 Kohlhase 1.8.3 Baumann 1.8.4 Linsen 1.8.5 Schönwälder 1.8.6 Knipp 1.8.7 Bode 1.8.8 Bergholz 1.8.9 Wallace 1.8.10 Stamerjohanns 1.8.11 Henkel 1.8.12 Jaeger 1.8.13 Gao 1.8.14 Mahleko 1.8.15 Nuechter

Guided Research in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2010/2011)

What is Guided Research?

Guided research is part of the undergraduate programs in EECS, CS and ECE. The guided research courses are jointly offered by all the respective professors: CS by the Computer Science faculty, ECE by the Electrical Engineering faculty, EECS conjointly. The professors propose a number of research projects, which can be handled within 6 weeks full time (or equivalent distributed time). The list of projects will be posted on the website. Students interested in particular projects should get in touch with the professor in charge of that project. As part of the project the students should prepare a research proposal (5 pages; howto), a final report (20 pages) and present the project in a seminar during the last 2 weeks of the semester.

Warning: There is no graduation without guided research!

Registration

Students taking guided research have to register via campus.net for the guided research proposal course (Fall 2010)

• Guided Research Proposal Electrical Engineering (300361)
• Guided Research Proposal Computer Science (320371)

Students must choose a topic and have it approved by the respective supervisor until 15.Dec.2010. Furthermore, students must also register for the guided research course (Spring 2011) on campus.net.

• Guided Research Electrical Engineering (300342)
• Guided Research Computer Science (320342)

There will be groups corresponding to the respective supervisors, which must be chosen.

Schedule

2010-10-01	CS Deadline for selecting the topic and the supervisor (faculty member)
2010-12-15	EE Deadline for selecting the topic and the supervisor (faculty member)
2011-01-15	Research proposal due (5 pages; howto)
2011-05-08	Final report due (by midnight, 20 pages)
2011-05-12/13	CS: Oral Presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)
2011-05-12/13	EE: Oral Presentations (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)

Grading

- The grade for the proposal (grading scheme) will also be the grade for the guided research proposal course (Fall 2010)

- The final grade for the guided research course (Spring 2011) will be composed of two partial percentage grades:

• final report 80% (grading scheme), and
• oral presentation 20% (grading scheme).

Submissions

The research proposal and the final report should be submitted to the supervisor. The student is responsible to make sure that the submission reaches the supervisor in time for the deadline. The research proposal and final report can be submitted electronically by e-mail. For electronic submission, the date of the e-mail counts as the basis for determining timeliness.

Late submissions of the research proposal and the final report will be penalized by a grade reduction of 10 percentage points per day for the contribution. So, for instance in the guided research course, if you submit your thesis two days late, that would have netted you 60%, then the thesis will contribute a partial grade of 40%. Thus, even if your presentation is perfect (100%) your final grade will be at 80%*40%+100%*20%=52%, you will be very close to failing your guided research!

CS Presentations

Presentations of guided research projects will be on Thursday/Friday, May 12/13, 2011, in Easthall 5 / Easthall 1. Slots are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. To apply for a slot, contact Jürgen Schönwälder and send him your preferred list of time slots, the name of your supervisor, and the title of your talk. Before submitting the list, make sure that the time slots fit the schedule of your supervisor.

Date	Time	Room	Student	Supervisor	Title
2011-05-12	10:20	Easthall 5	Flavia Grosan	A. Nuechter	Object Identification using 3D Models in Environment Scans
2011-05-12	10:40	Easthall 5	Alexandru Tandrau	A. Nuechter	Object Identification using 3D Models in Environment Scans
2011-05-12	11:00	Easthall 5	Bihemo Kimasa	H. Stamerjohanns	Implementation of probabilistic algorithms for simulation of isolated rural electricity systems in developing countries
2011-05-12	11:20				-- BREAK --
2011-05-12	11:40	Easthall 5	Parshant K.C.	A. Nuechter	3D mapping of the Jacobs University Bremen
2011-05-12	12:00	Easthall 5	Ion Andrei Bara	A. Birk	Line extraction from 2D sonar scans
2011-05-12	12:20	Easthall 5	Lachana Hada	P. Baumann	Extension of Array Databases with Point Clouds
2011-05-12	12:40				-- LUNCH BREAK --
2011-05-12	14:00	Easthall 5	Artiom Patrinica	B. Mahleko	Privacy-Preserving Benchmarking System
2011-05-12	14:20	Easthall 5	D. Babiac	A. Nuechter	Accuracy of "Building Bremen in a Day"
2011-05-12	14:40	Easthall 5	Lucian Mocanu	M. Kohlhase	Identifying Semantic Structures in Scientific Documents
2011-05-12	15:00				-- BREAK --
2011-05-12	15:20	Easthall 5	Vladimir Zamdzhiev	M. Kohlhase	Universal OpenMath Machine
2011-05-12	15:40	Easthall 5	Johannes Schauer	J. Schönwälder	Flowy 2.0
2011-05-12	16:00	Easthall 5	Aleksandar Siljanovski	J. Schönwälder	Multicast DNS on Resource Constrained Devices in Low-power Lossy IPv6 networks
2011-05-12	16:20				-- BREAK --
2011-05-12	16:40	Easthall 5	Plamen Dimitrov	J. Schönwälder	TCP Congestion Control Measurements
2011-05-12	17:00	Easthall 5	Nurbulat Argumbayev	J. Schönwälder	DTLS on Constrained Devices in Low-power Lossy IPv6 Networks
Date	Time	Room	Student	Supervisor	Title
2011-05-13	09:20	Easthall 1	Todor Bilarev	H. Jaeger	Modeling real-valued stochastic processes via Observable Operator Models
2011-05-13	09:40	Easthall 1	Mircea Cretu	H. Jaeger	Toward distortion-tolerant text recognition with Echo State Networks
2011-05-13	10:00				-- BREAK --
2011-05-13	10:20	Easthall 1	Anca Dumitrache	M. Kohlhase	BauDenkMalNetz - Creating a Semantically Annotated Web Resource of Historical Buildings
2011-05-13	10:40	Easthall 1	Mihai Cirlanaru	M. Kohlhase	Authoring, Publishing and Interacting with Units and Quantities in Technical Documents
2011-05-13	11:00	Easthall 1	Mihaela Rusu	M. Kohlhase	Interactive Semantical Graphs
2011-05-13	11:20				-- BREAK --
2011-05-13	11:40	Easthall 1	Richelle Fosu	L. Linsen	Visual Rendering and Modeling of Large City Models
2011-05-13	12:00	Easthall 1	Aygul Shugaeva	L. Linsen	Hierarchical Data Representation in 3D Worlds
2011-05-13	12:20	Easthall 1	Adriatik Bedjeti	L. Linsen	Interactive Visual Exploration of Photo Collections
2011-05-13	12:40				-- LUNCH BREAK --
2011-05-13	14:00	Easthall 1	M. Ulugbek	A. Nuechter	Nearest Neigbor Search for ICP and SLAM
2011-05-13	14:20	Easthall 1	B. Okal	A. Nuechter	A Cheap Chess Robot : Perception and Planning (Perception part)
2011-05-13	14:40	Easthall 1	O. Dunkley	A. Nuechter	A Cheap Chess Robot : Perception and Planning (Planning part)
2011-05-13	15:00				-- BREAK --
2011-05-13	15:20	Easthall 1	Razvan Mihalyi	H. Jaeger	Echo State Networks - Pattern Generation for Motor Control
2011-05-13	15:40	Easthall 1	Oana Olteanu	H. Jaeger	Reservoir Self-Contol for Achieving Invariance Against Slow Input Distortions of Handwritten Characters
2011-05-13	16:00	Easthall 1	Josip Djolonga	H. Jaeger	Comparing extensions of hidden Markov models with extensions of linear probabilistic grammars

EE Presentations

Presentations of guided research projects will be on Fri May 13/17, 2011 in Lecture Hall II. Slots are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. To apply for a slot, contact Mathias Bode (m.bode@jacobs-university.de) and send him your preferred list of time slots, the name of your supervisor, and the title of your talk. Before submitting the list, make sure that the time slots fit the schedule of your supervisor.

Date	Time	Room	Student	Supervisor	Title
2011-05-17	13:00	???	Matabato Kimani	Bergholz	Test Methods for Low Voltage PV fed power systems for residential homes with a wireless or wireline monitoring device
2011-05-17	13:20	???	Andrei Damian	Bergholz	High brightness LED technologies and Photovoltaics - how to adapt these technologies to each other
2011-05-17	13:40	???	Kiril Shamatanov	Knipp	Optics in tandem thin film solar cells I
2011-05-17	14:00	???	Adrian Cirstea	Knipp	Optics in tandem thin film solar cells II
2011-05-17	14:20	???	Pallav Tiwari	Knipp	Electrical characterization of microcrystalline thin film transistors
2011-05-17	14:40	???	Janina Sanchez	Bergholz	Architectural Aspects of low Voltage DC systems in residential homes powered by Photovoltaics
2011-05-17	15:00	???	Uchenna Udeh	Bergholz	Analysis of the historic and future Development of the performance ratio of PV systems, and root cause for observed improvements
2011-05-17	15:20	???	???	???	???
2011-05-17	15:40	???	Ehsaan Qadir	Nuechter/Bergholz	NDA
2011-05-17	16:00	???	Sidrit Hafizi	Bergholz	Design options and simulation of PV systems for a low voltage DC PV-fed power system for residential homes: PV module and storage design and management
Date	Time	Room	Student	Supervisor	Title
2011-05-13	08:00	Lec Hall 2	???	???	???
2011-05-13	08:20	Lec Hall 2	Piotr Twardosz	Wallace	Development of a platform for UAV propagation measurements
2011-05-13	08:40	Lec Hall 2	Sergiu Mosanu	Wallace	Channel measurement and analysis using prototype UAV platform
2011-05-13	09:00	Lec Hall 2	Prashant K.C.	Wallace	Design and characterization of a programmable source for cognitive radio studies
2011-05-13	09:20	Lec Hall 2	Maniraj Angdambay	Wallace	Design and characterization of a low-cost RF sensor for cognitive radio studies
2011-05-13	09:40	Lec Hall 2	Dheeraj Pant	Wallace	Experiment of low-cost cognitive radio source/sensors on ZigBee sensor nodes
2011-05-13	10:00	Lec Hall 2	Alexandra Filip	Henkel/Hassan	SINR Analysis Based on the Received SNR in Multi-User MIMO Systems
2011-05-13	10:20	Lec Hall 2	???	???	???
2011-05-13	10:40	Lec Hall 2	???	???	???
2011-05-13	11:00	-- BREAK --
2011-05-13	11:20	Lec Hall 2	Marina Zimmermann	Bode	Self-Organizing Adaptive Subspaces
2011-05-13	11:40	Lec Hall 2	Misa Aleksic	Bode	Self-Organizing Adaptive Subspaces
2011-05-13	12:00	Lec Hall 2	Alexandru Topor	Bode	Self-Organizing Adaptive Subspaces
2011-05-13	12:20	Lec Hall 2	Diana Borsa	Bode	Self-Organizing Adaptive Subspaces
2011-05-13	12:40	Lec Hall 2	Ion Victor Gosea	Bode	Pitch Detection
2011-05-13	13:00	Lec Hall 2	Shreetu Shresta	Wagner	Temperature dependence of contact resistance in organic field effect transistors
2011-05-13	13:20	Lec Hall 2	???	???	???
2011-05-13	13:40	Lec Hall 2	Andrei Damian	Knipp	Optical nanostructures in nature and solar cells

Topics

Students taking guided research in 2011 have to choose their guided research topic by the end of 2010 to get started early. It is generally recommended to get engaged in research as early as possible since that gives an additional perspective on your major. The table below lists some topics. It is also possible to propose a topic. But in this case, you have to approach a faculty member and convince him.

In case you like to know more about a topic listed below, please go and see the respective faculty member.

Go to this person's topic list: Baumann, Bergholz, Birk, Bode, Henkel, Jaeger, Knipp, Kohlhase, Linsen, Schönwälder, Stamerjohanns, Wallace, Gao, Mahleko

Birk

Robotics Homepage. Please contact Prof. Birk directly via email (a.birk AT jacobs-university.de). There are several topics linked to real as well as simulated robots available.

Status	Title
Open	please contact A.Birk for details (see above website / email)

Kohlhase

Faculty Homepage Prof. Kohlhase

Status	Title
Open	Interactively link mathematical documents to web resources
Open	Comprehensible Documentation of an Ontology
Open	Integrate Educational Web Services into Interactive Documents
Open	Evaluating Problem-Solving in Math Knowledge Bases by Argumentation
Open	Implementing Problem-Solving Assistance in Math Knowledge Bases
Open	Studying Corpora of Argumentation about Mathematical Knowledge
Open	Modeling Argumentation about Mathematical Knowledge with Automated Agent Participation
Open	History Visualization of Mathematical Documents
Open	Interactive Math Notation Editor
Open	Implement and evaluate editor extensions for annotating special structures of mathematical knowledge
Open	Exporting mathematical document collections to PDF
Open	Providing context-sensitive editing help in the SWiM wiki
Open	Implement and evaluate a two-way conversion OMDoc↔XHTML+RDFa
Open	Testing the integration of interactive mathematical documents, a formula search engine, and a mathematical database
Open	Integrating SWiM and Mathematica
Open	Integrating and Refactoring a Semantic Editor in panta rhei
Open	Refactoring and Revising the Rating Framework of panta rhei
Open	Tracking user activity in panta rhei
Open	Integrate a web-service for interactive exercises into panta rhei
Open	Member pages in panta rhei
Open	Representing Informal Knowledge in a Formal System
Open	Management of change in a formal system
Open	Dynamic aggregation of mathematical documents
Open	Representing the Lambda Cube in Formal Systems
Open	Representing Intelligent Notations
Open	Certified Validation of Mathematical Documents

Baumann

see topic list of Prof. Baumann, head of the Large-Scale Scientific Information Services (L-SIS) Research Group.

Linsen

Faculty Homepage Prof. Linsen

Status	Title
Open	Topics in Visualization and Computer Graphics that are being offered by Prof. Linsen can be found here.

Schönwälder

CNDS Research Group Prof. Schönwälder

Status	Title
Open	Flowy Performance Evaluation and Improvements
Open	Flow Signatures of Popular Applications
Open	Visualization of Network Flows
Open	SNMP over 6LoWPAN
Open	Energy Conservation Through Radio Transmit Power Management
Open	TCP Congestion Control Measurements

Knipp

Faculty Homepage Prof. Knipp

Status	Title
Open	Optical Analysis of Silicon Thin film Solar Cells with nano textured contact
Open	Absorption limits in Thin film Solar Cells
Open	Light scattering in solar cells
Open	Electrical Conctacts in Solar cells
Open	Design of optical sensors for spectral imaging applications
Open	Electrical Characterization of Silicon Thin Film Transistors
Open	Electrical stability of silicon thin film transistors
Open	Design of Reconfigurable Antenna Arrays (together with J. Wallace)

Bode

Status	Title
Mayya Rakova	Speaker Identification under Noise
Ion Victor Gosea	Pitch Detection
Diana Borsa, Marina Zimmermann, Misa Aleksic, Alexandru Topor	Self-Organizing Neural Networks
open	Search Processes in Neural Networks

Bergholz

Status	Title
Bihemo Kimasa	Design requirements and implementation of a prototype for robust and simple PV electricity systems for rural electrification in 3rd world countries
Sidrit Hafizi	Design options and simulation of PV systems for a low voltage DC PV-fed power system for residential homes: PV module and storage design and management
Janina Sanchez	Design options and simulation of PV systems for a low voltage DC PV-fed power system for residential homes: Low Voltage PV – DC installation and architectural Aspects
Matabato Kimani	Test methods for low voltage PV-fed power systems for residential homes, including the integration of a wireline or wireless monitor device
Open	Reliability engineering for PV cells and modules: Preventive test methods against cell breakage
Andrei Damian	High brightness LED technologies and Photovoltaics - how to adapt these technologies to each other
Uchenna Udeh	Analysis of the historic and future Development of the performance ratio of PV systems, and root causes for observed improvements
Open	Investigation of the reversible hot pixels in CCD chips generated by strong illumination
Open	First Steps to the implementation of an Environmental Management System at Jacobs University

Wallace

Status	Title
Open	Propagation Measurements for Body Area Networks
Open	Underwater Acoustic MIMO Communications
Open	Sensor Network Design for Cognitive Radio Studies

Stamerjohanns

Status	Title
Open	latex2xml converter comparison study (2 persons may cowork)
Open	Feedback system for Mathml documents

Henkel

Status	Title
Open	Gene codes - a literature study
Open	Automatic rate allocation for multilevel UEP codes (continuation of a previous project)
Open	Impulse-noise cancellation in MIMO systems / SVD coding
Open	Realization of a random pipelined Turbo code and its properties
Open	Random low-density convolutional codes and iterative decoding
Open	PAR reduction using Trellis-Shaping or Trelllis Partial Transmit Sequences in a multi-antenna environment
Taken	Extension of time-frequency domain coding realizations
Open	Algorithm design for rate distribution in UEP multilevel coding
Open	SVD coding / cancellation
Open	more topics in network coding, multi-user communication, UEP coding, .... available

Jaeger

Status	Title
Open	Numerous projects concerned with dynamical neural network learning - topics are defined together with students - check out this Scholarpedia article for a first impression - for students with interest in pattern recognition or computational neuroscience
Open	Numerous projects concerned with stochastic sequence modeling (e.g. genome sequences, protein sequences, speech signals) using observable operator models - topics are defined together with students - check out section 1 of this paper for a first impression - usually taken by math-loving students

Gao

Status	Title
Open	Software Simulations of Communication Systems Based on SystemView (2-student collaboration)
Open	Software Simulatoins of FFT based OFDM Systems Based on Matlab
Open	Study of the Statistics of the Time Varying Channels
Open	Estimation Theory: Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems.
Open	Estimation Theory: Time and Frequency Synchronization for OFDM Systems
Open	Detection Theory: Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Systems
Open	Convex Optimization Theory with Application in Modern Communication Systems
Open	Protocols Study for Relay Aided Cooperative Communications
Taken	Capacity for MIMO Gaussian Channel

Mahleko

Status	Title
Open	new topic
Open
Open
Open
Open
Open

Nuechter

Status	Title
Open	Please contact Andreas Nüchter