Gerhard Fettweis

Gerhard Paul Fettweis (born March 16, 1962 in Wilrijk) is a German electrical engineer and university professor for telecommunications engineering.[1]

Gerhard's father Alfred Fettweis invented the Wave Digital Filter. With a scholarship from the prestigious Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes,[2] Gerhard Fettweis studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 1981 to 1986, and received his Dr.-Ing. (PhD in engineering) degree there in 1990.[3] He then worked as a visiting scholar with IBM and TCSI Inc. in Berkeley. Since 1994, he has been holding the Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications Systems at Dresden University of Technology.[4] In 2009, he was honored with Fellow membership of the IEEE for contributions to signal processing algorithms and chip implementation architectures for communications.[5] In 2016, he became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[6]

References
  1. "Neugewählte Mitglieder 2016" (PDF) (in German). German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  2. Jahresbericht 2017 (in German). Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. p. 79.
  3. Fettweis, Gerhard; Epple, Wolfgang K.; Meyer, Ernst Harald (1990). Parallelisierung des Viterbi-Decoders: Algorithmus und VLSI-Architektur (in German). ISBN 3-18-144410-3.
  4. "Gerhard Fettweis". Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communication Systems. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  5. "IEEE Fellows 2009". IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  6. "Gerhard Fettweis" (in German). German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
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