Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst-Michael Groß
Contact:
Zusebau, Raum 3059 (registration via the secretariat)
Helmholtzplatz 5
98693 Ilmenau
+49 (0)3677 69-2858
horst-michael.gross@tu-ilmenau.de
Consultation hours:
Wednesdays, 1.30 - 2.30 p.m. by appointment only by e-mail or via the secretary's office (+49 (0)3677 69-2858).
Vita
| since 2021 | Chairman of the Board of the Thuringian Center for Learning Systems and Robotics (TZLR e.V.) |
| 2019-2024 | Coordinator of the Carl-Zeiss Foundation "Durchbrüche" project group E4SM (Engineering for Smart Manufacturing) - "Engineering of Machine-Learning-based Assistance Systems for Data-Intensive Industrial Scenarios" |
| 2010 | Thuringian Research Award in category “Transfer” for shopping guide robot TOOMAS |
| 2008-2021 | Coordinator of joint research projects (BMBF, EU, Thuringia) on the practical use of mobile assistance robots in retail, domestic, care and rehabilitation |
| since 2007 | Member of the award committee for the Thuringian Research Award |
| 2001-2003 | Speaker of DFG Postgraduate School 164 "VLSI Design Automation of Mixed Analog-Digital Structures at the Example of Neural Nets" |
| 1998-2005 | Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Automation at TU Ilmenau |
| 1996-2019 | Vice Chairman of the Board of the Center for Image and Signal Processing (ZBS e.V.) Ilmenau |
| 1997-1998 | Vice Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Automation at TU Ilmenau |
| 1993 | Founding member and board member of the German Chapter of European Neural Network Society (GNNS) |
| 1993 | Co-initiator of the first DFG Postgraduate School at TU Ilmenau (GK 164) |
| since 1993 | Head of the research lab (Chair) for Neuroinformatics (since 2004 "Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics'') |
| 1993 | Appointment as university professor at TU Ilmenau |
| 1991-1992 | Acting head of the Neuroinformatics group at TU Ilmenau |
| 1990 | Visiting postdoctoral research scientist, Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute of Neuroin-formatics (Prof. von Seelen) |
| 1989 | Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in Neuroinformatics at TH Ilmenau on the subject: Modeling of cortical processors for content-driven parallel information processing based on the visual cortex (summa cum laude) |
| 1980-1985 | Academic studies of Engineering Cybernetics and Automation (major) and Biocybernetics (minor) at university "TH Ilmenau" and Friedrich Schiller University Jena; final degree as Diplom-Ing. (M.Sc.) |
| 1977-1980 | Military service in the National People's Army |
| 1965-1977 | Polytechnic secondary school in Waltershausen and high school Salzmannschule in Schnepfental |
| 1959 | born in Waltershausen in Thuringia |
Reviews and Memberships
Reviewer for:
- Journals: AI Communication, Biological Cybernetics, Connection Science, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Kognitionswisswenschaft, Künstliche Intelligenz, and more
- Research funding organizations: DFG (German Research Foundation), Swedish Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), European Commission, several Ministries for Research of German Federal States, several privat research funding organizations
- Conferences and workshops: member of more than 40 program committees of international and national conferences and workshops
Memberships:
- European Neural Network Society (ENNS)
- International Neural Network Society (INNS)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- German Society of Computer Science (GI)
Publications
A large fraction of my publications is available at Google Scholar .
A list of my publications can be dowloaded here.
A list of the theses I have supervised can be downloaded here.