Skip to content
Doctoral Students
Supervisor – Completed
- Dr.-Ing. Martin Wöllmer (Doctoral Thesis, TUM, 01/2008 – 08/2012, finished 02/2013 with highest honour, now with BMW, Germany): Context-Sensitive Machine Learning for Intelligent Human Behavior Analysis
- Dr.-Ing. Florian Eyben (Doctoral Thesis, 01/2008 – 02/2015, finished 01/2015 with highest honour, now CTO of audEERING GmbH, Germany): Real-time Speech and Music Classification by Large Audio Feature Space Extraction
- Dr. rer. nat. Felix Weninger (Doctoral Thesis, TUM, 01/2010 – 05/2015, finished 05/2015, now with Nuance, USA): Intelligent Single-Channel Methods for Multi-Source Audio Analysis
- Dr.-Ing. Zixing Zhang, MSc (Doctoral Thesis, TUM, 08/2010 – 04/2015, finished 04/2015, now Full Professor at Hunan University, China): Semi-Autonomous Data Enrichment and Optimisation for Intelligent Speech Analysis
- Dr.-Ing. Jun Deng, MSc (Doctoral Thesis, TUM, 08/2011 – 06/2016, finished 06/2016, now with Agile Robotics, Germany): Feature Transfer for Speech Emotion Recognition
- Dr Yue Zhang, MSc (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, 01/2014 – 12/2017, finished 10/2018): Machine Learning Approaches for Holistic Computational Paralinguistics
- Dr.-Ing. Kun Qian (Doctoral Thesis, TUM, 10/2014 – 10/2018, finished 11/2018, now Full Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, China): Automatic General Audio Signal Classification
- Dr.-Ing. Simone Hantke, MSc (Doctoral Thesis, TUM, 03/2014 – 2018, finished 05/2019 with highest honour, now with audEERING GmbH, Germany): Intelligent Gamified Crowdsourcing for Audio Processing
- Dr.-Ing. Florian Pokorny (external Doctoral Thesis with Medical University of Graz, TUM, 11/2013, finished 07/2019, now with Medical University of Graz, Austria): Towards an Automatic Earlier Recognition of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fragile X Syndrome, and Rett Syndrome through Intelligent Pre-linguistic Vocalisation Analysis
- Dr.-Ing. Erik Marchi, MSc (Doctoral Thesis, TUM, 12/2011 – 08/2016, now with Apple, USA): Automatic Emotion Recognition in the Voice of Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions
- Dr.-Ing. Shahin Amiriparian, MSc (Doctoral Thesis, TUM, since 03/2014, University of Passau, since 10/2014, University of Augsburg, since 10/2017, finished 12/2019 with highest honour): Deep Representation Learning Techniques for Audio Signal Processing
- Dr.-Ing. Raymond Brückner (external Doctoral Thesis with SVOX/Nuance, TUM, since 06/2011, finished 03/2020): Application of Deep Learning Methods in Computational Paralinguistics
- Dr. rer. nat. Gil Keren (Doctoral Thesis, University of Passau, 10/2015 – 09/2019, finished 06/2020 with highest honour, now with facebook, USA): Neural Network Supervision: Notes on Loss Functions, Labels and Confidence Estimation
- Dr. rer. nat. Jing Han (Doctoral Thesis, University of Passau, 02/2015 – 09/2017, University of Augsburg 10/2017 – 06/2020, finished 06/2020 with highest honour, now with University of Cambridge, UK): Automated Deep Audiovisual Emotional Behaviour Analysis in the Wild
- Dr. rer. nat. Vedhas Pandit (Doctoral Thesis, University of Passau, 01/2015 – 09/2017, University of Augsburg 10/2017 – 09/2018, finished 11/2021, now with Amdocs, Germany): Time- and Value-continuous Explainable Affect Estimation In-the-wild
- Dr.-Ing. Zhao Ren (Doctoral Thesis, University of Passau, 04/2017 – 09/2017 University of Augsburg, 10/2017 – 02/2022, now with Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany): Deep Learning Techniques for Computer Audition
- Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Schmitt (Doctoral Thesis, University of Passau, since 01/2015, finished 03/2022 with highest honour): Bag-of-Words Representations for Computer Audition
- Dr Panagiotis Tzirakis (Doctoral Thesis supported by EPSRC, Imperial College London, 10/2016 – 03/2021, now with Hume AI, USA): Deep Learning methods for End-to-End Modeling of multimodal phenomena
- Dr.-Ing. Lukas Stappen (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, 04/2018 – 10/2022, now with his Start-Up causAI, Germany): Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Videos
- Dr. rer. nat. Alice Emily Baird (Doctoral Thesis, University of Passau, since 08/2016, University of Augsburg, since 10/2017 – 08/2021, now with Hume AI, USA): Computer Audition for Emotional Wellbeing
- Dr.-Ing. Shuo Liu (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, 09/2018 – 05/2022, now with facebook, USA): Audio Intelligence in Health Care
- Dr Rodrigo Mira (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, 10/2019 – 08/2023): Leveraging Audio-visual Speech Effectively via Deep Learning
- Dr Harry Coppock (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, 10/2020 – 11/2023, now with Number 10 Downing Street as Innovation Fellow): Automatic COVID-19 Detection from Respiratory Audio
- Dr Georgios Rizos (Doctoral Thesis supported by EPSRC and Presidential Fellowship, Imperial College London, 10/2017 – 12/2022, now with University of Cambridge, UK): Deep Learning from Uncertainty: Exemplified by Applications on Audio and Text
- Dr.-Ing. Gauri Deshpande (external Doctoral Thesis with Tata Consultancy Services, University of Augsburg, 07/2019 – 09/2024): Breathing Patterns in Speech: Discovering Markers of Health
- Dr.-Ing. Srividya Tirunellai Rajamani (external Doctoral Thesis with Siemens, University of Augsburg, 05/2020 – 09/2024): Deep Learning for Health Data: Attention, Activations and Beyond
- Dr Najla Al Futaisi (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, 04/2018 – 09/2024): Deep Learning for Infant Atypical Speech Analysis
- Mr Joseph Ye (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 03/2020): Machine Learning in Finance: From Earnings Data Analysis to Algorithmic Trading
- Mr Mostafa M. Mohamed (external Doctoral Thesis with Sync Pilot GmbH, University of Augsburg, since 03/2019): Foundation Models in Affective Computing
- Mr Zijiang Yang (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 07/2016): Emotionalise Computer Expression: Emotional Text-to-Speech and Emotional Voice Conversion
- Mr Yi Chang (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 10/2020): Computer Audition for the Analysis of Respiratory and Mental Health
- Mr Vincent Karas (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 11/2018): Modelling affective states for transportation systems
Supervisor – Running
- Ms Meishu Song (Doctoral Thesis, since 04/2018): Usability Factors in Intelligent mHealth Applications
- Mr Adrià Mallol (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 10/2018): Speech Processing in Health Care
- Mr Manuel Milling (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 10/2018): Deep Learning in Neurodevelopmental Disorder Diagnosis and Coaching
- Mr Andreas Triantafyllopoulos (external Doctoral Thesis with audEERING GmbH, University of Augsburg, since 09/2018): Deep and Foundational Models for Health and Wellbeing Audition
- Mr Mina Adel Fahmy Nessiem (external Doctoral Thesis with Sync Pilot GmbH, University of Augsburg, since 03/2019): Real-time Personality Recognition in Large Call-Centre Data
- Mr Maurice Gerczuk (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 04/2020): Deep Speech Analysis for Health
- Ms Xiangheng He (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 10/2020): Coherence and Evaluation in Image Paragraph Captioning
- Mr Alican Akman (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 01/2021): XAI for Affective Computing and Digital Health
- Mr Lukas Christ (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 11/2020): Deep Affective Speech Synthesis
- Mrs Anastasia Semertzidou (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 11/2020): Affective Computing for the Aging Society
- Mr Alexander Gebhard (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 04/2021): Curious Largely Autonomous Computer Audition
- Mr Xin Jing (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 04/2021): Deep Computer Audition
- Mr Alexander Kathan (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 05/2021): Deep Audition
- Mr Iosif Tsangko (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 11/2022): Audio State and Trait Modelling
- Ms Anika Alisa Spiesberger (Doctoral Thesis, University of Augsburg, since 12/2022): NLP in Cultural Preservation
- Mr Qiyang Sun (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 09/2023): Personalised Data Visualisation for XAI
- Mr Simon Pistrosch (Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Munich, since 03/2024): Silent Paralinguistics
- Ms Monica Gonzalez Machorro (external Doctoral Thesis with audEERING GmbH, Technical University of Munich, since 02/2024): Speech Analysis for Health
- Mr Nikolai Körber (Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Munich / University of Applied Sciences Landshut, since 02/2024): Energy-Efficient Deep Learning-Based Image Compression for LPWANs on Resource-Constrained AIoT Devices
- Mr Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy (external Doctoral Thesis with Siemens Healthineers, Technical University of Munich, since 02/2024): AI for Health
- Mr Martin Bürger (Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Munich, since 03/2024): Large Language Models for Personalised Science Communication
- Mr Filip Packan (Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Munich, since 06/2024): Deep Learning in Medicine
- Mr Yupei Li (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 09/2024): Identification of AI-generated Music
- Mr Emran Alturki (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 10/2024): Deep Learning for Epilepsy Management
- Ms Urmila Airsang (external Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Munich, since 11/2024): Multimodal Digital Health
- Ms Yee Wen Lim (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 11/2024): Affective Computing: The Neuro-Perspective
- Ms Beatrice Isabelle Aretz (Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Munich, since 12/2024): AI for Digital Women’s Health
- Mr Zeyu Chen (Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Munich, since 01/2025): Diagnosis of Mental Disorders based on Body Sounds
- Mr Sicheng Yang (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 01/2025): Multimodal Learning for Speech-Driven Gesture Synthesis
Co-Supervisor – Completed
- Dr George Trigeorgis (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 09/2013, finished 01/2018): Deep Learning for Audiovisual Analysis
- Dr. Josef Schmid (Doctoral Thesis, University of Passau / Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, 04/2017 – 06/2022, now Professor at TH Deggendorf): Learning-Based Quality of Service Prediction in Cellular Vehicle Communication
- Dr Nuri Cingillioglu (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, 09/2017 – 06/2022): End-to-End Neuro-Symbolic Learning of Logic-based Inference
- Dr Ali Girayhan Özbay (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, 10/2018 – 09/2023): Machine learning algorithms for fluid mechanics
Co-Supervisor – Running
- Mr Siegfried Ludwig (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 04/2021): Deep Computer Vision
- Mr Patrick Purucker (Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Munich / Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, since 02/2024): Unmanned Aircraft Systems Communication
2nd Supervisor
- Ms Zhen Wei (Doctoral Thesis, Imperial College London, since 01/2015): Financial Data Assimilation
- Mr Aydin Javadov (Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich, since 10/2024): XAI in Affective Computing