Employment
- Professor of Computer Science, since March 2010,
Associate Professor, January 2007 - February 2010,
Norwegian Information Security Laboratory (NISlab), Gjøvik University College, Norway.
Initiated and conduct research in computational forensics, developed new courses in computational forensics, data analysis and statistics as well as software security. - Research engineer and Scientific project manager since 1996, July 1994 - December 2006,
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin, Department of Security Technology.
In charge of founded research and industrial projects on computer vision and computational intelligence for document processing and handwriting analysis, in particular signature verification in finance and forensic applications. - Student researcher, August 1992 – May 1994,
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Branch Lab for Automation of Circuit and System Design (IIS/EAS) in Dresden, Department Modeling and Simulation.
Design, implementation and simulation of digital filter models for the multi-level-simulator KOSIM, as well as study and simulation of cross talk in coupled conductors. - Bank employee, July 1989 – August 1989,
Headquarter of the National Bank East-Germany (Staatsbank der DDR) in Berlin.
Education
- Doctoral Dissertation, December 2001 - November 2005,
Artificial Intelligence Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Thesis: The influence of physical and biomechanical processes on the ink trace – Methodological foundations for the forensic analysis of signatures.
Promotor: Professor Dr. Lambert R.B. Schomaker
Manuscript committee: Professor Dr. Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Professor Dr. Réjean Plamondon, Laboratoire Scribens, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, and Professor Dr. Jos Roerdink, Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. - Study and Master degree (Diplom-Ingenieur), September 1989 - June 1994,
Electrical Engineering / Information Technology with focus on system and circuit design at the Technical University Dresden.
Special courses on:
- Systems and methods of analog and digital signal processing,
- Adaptive systems and filter design.
Diploma thesis entitled Generierung von SPICE-Modellen für gekoppelte Leitungen (translation: Generation of SPICE-Models for coupled conductors) was written at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. Rating: first class. - Banking profession (Finanzkaufmann), September 1986 - July 1989,
National Bank of East-Germany (Staatsbank der DDR) in Leipzig.
Teaching Experiences
- Lecture, Fall 2008
Data Analysis and Statistics. Master Erasmus Mundus “Color in Informatics and Media Technology” - Lecture, Fall 2008
Software Security: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities. Gjøvik University College, Norway. - Lecture, Spring 2008
Computational Forensics. Lingköping University, Sweden. - Lecture, Fall 2007
Application Security: Intrincial Secure Applications and Software Protection. Gjøvik University College, Norway. - Lecture, WS 2006,
Modeling and Analysis of Handwriting. Technical University in Berlin, Germany. - Supervision of Student Researchers, since 1996,
In charge of 33 student researchers (team of max. eight students), who conduct research and development within the Department of Security Technology, Fraunhofer IPK, in particular on computer vision and pattern recognition. Some of these students wrote their Diploma thesis at our institute.
Students were affiliated with the Technical University Berlin, the Free University Berlin, the Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Applied Science, the Berlin College of Technology and Business Studies and the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. - Teaching Assistant, September 1990 – February 1992
Exercise and laboratory courses in Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. University of Traffic Systems in Dresden, Germany.
Invited Speaker / Lecture (selection)
- Computer Seminar: Digital image processing in forensic science on behalf of the German Customs Services, with participants from the German Federal and Local Police Offices, the Luxembourg Police Office, September 14-16, 2004.
Position: Organizer / Seminar leader. - Computer Seminar: Digital image processing in forensic handwriting examination International Congress of the Gesellschaft für Forensische Schriftenuntersuchung (GFS), 2002.
Position: Organizer / Seminar leader. - Lecture and Workshop: Pen force emulating robotic writing device and its application in the forensic analysis of signatures. ENFHEX* Conference and Business Meeting, Budapest, November 10-12, 2005. (* European Network of Forensic Handwriting Experts).
Position: Organizer / Referent. - Tutorial: Computational Forensics: Techniques, Applications and Challenges in the Computed-Based Analysis of Questioned Documents. 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Curitiba, Brazil, 2007.
- Tutorial: Fuzzy Morphology. 4th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC4), 1999.
- 14th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society,
Dijon, France, September 13-16, 2009.
- Linköping University, Department of Computer and
Information Science, Linköping, Sweden, May 2008.
- Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems - Centre of Excellence, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, June 2007.
- Norwegian Information Security laboratory, Gjøvik University College, Norway, November 2006.
- University of Reading, School of Systems Engineering, UK, June 2006.
- Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, June 2006.
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, January 2006.
- University of Groningen, The Netherlands, February 2002.
- Hitachi Central Research Laboratory (HCRL), Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan, October 2000.
- Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, December 1999.
- Nijmegen University, The Netherlands, November 1999.
- Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, June 1999.
- Association of Forensic Document Examiners, Annual Continuing Education Seminar, Scottsdale, USA, November 2003.
- 3rd European Academy of Forensic Science Triennial Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2003.
- Institut für Schriftuntersuchung – Autumn Workshop, Mannheim, Germany, October 2004, October 2001.
Session and Conference Organization
- Workshop Chair, International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF), Manchester, United Kingdom, 2007, Washington DC, USA, 2008.
- Program Chair, 28th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Berlin, Germany, 2006.
- Publication Chair, 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), Melbourne, Australia, 2003.
- Publication Chair, 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 2003.
- Special Event Chair, 4th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), Kitakyushu, Japan, 2004.
- Special Event Chair, 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC9), 2004.
- Travel Grant Chair, 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), Santiago, Chile, 2002.
- Award Chair, 6th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC6), 2001.
- Session Organizer, Electronic Signatures at 7th International Congress of the Gesellschaft für Forensische Schriftuntersuchung (GFS), Salzburg, Austria, 2007.
- Session Organizer, Computer-based handwriting and document examination at 6th International Congress of the Gesellschaft für Forensische Schriftuntersuchung (GFS), Heidelberg, Germany, 2004.
- Session Organizer, Soft Biometrics at International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (AFSS), Kolkata, India, 2002.
Editorial-Board Member
- International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR).
- Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS).
- International Journal of Security and Its Applications (IJSIA).
- International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF).
Program-Committee Member
- IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST), Cergy Pontoise / Paris, France, 26 - 30 October 2008.
- International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), Montreal, Canada, 19 - 21 August, 2008.
- IEEE Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (SMCia), Muroran, Japan, 25 - 27 June 2008.
- International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (IEEE/SADFE), Oakland, California, 22 May 2008.
- International Conference on Information Security and Assurance (ISA), Busan, Korea, 24 -26 April 2008.
- International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2008.
- International Workshop on Forensics for Future Generation Communication environments (F2GC), since 2007.
- International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2007.
- IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), since 2007.
- International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security (IAS), since 2005.
- International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC), Information Assurance and Security, 2003, 2004.
- Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA), since 2003.
- International Conference on Hybrid Intelligence Systems (HIS), since 2001.
- Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC), since 2001.
Technical Reviewer / Referee
- Court of Justice,
Handwriting case-report, Landgericht Hamburg, 2002. - Research Organization,
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Dutch Research Council, 2004. - Journals,
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B.
- International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.
- International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition.
- Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal.
- Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft Journal)
- Journal of Forensic Document Examiners. - Conferences, in addition to services in international program committees:
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), 2007.
- International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2003, 2007.
- International Conference for Human-Computer Interaction (CHI), since 2006.
- IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (ICEIS), 2006.
- IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, 2005.
- Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2004.
- International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR), 2003.
- International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques (IKOMAT), 2002.
Memberships
- International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Technical Committee 11 – Reading Systems, since 2000.
- World Federation on Soft Computing, since 1999.
- IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Woman in Engineering, since 1999.
- International Graphonomic Society, since 1998.
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, MMIWG, Ink subgoup), 2003 - 2005.
- DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V., NI 37 Biometrie, German representation of ISO/IEC JTC1, SC 37, 2004 - 2006.