Alexander Raake (born in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

in 1971) is a professor heading the ''Audiovisual Technology Group'' at

Technische Universität Ilmenau The Technische Universität Ilmenau (''Ilmenau University of Technology'', TU Ilmenau) is a German public research university located in Ilmenau, Thuringia, central Germany. Founded in 1894, it has five academic departments (faculties) with abo ...

since 2015.

Biography

Between 1991 and 1997, he studied

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

and at Télécom ParisTech (ENST); where he was a research scientist and worked on the quality of

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet t ...

(Voice over Internet Protocol) voice transmission as part of his dissertation at the Institute for Communication Acoustics of

Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...

. In 2004 and 2005, Raake did research work in Orsay, France, where he developed methods for measuring and modeling speech intelligibility in virtual chat rooms. In 2005, he joined

Telekom Innovation Laboratories T-Labs, formerly known as "Telekom Innovation Laboratories", is the R&D unit of Deutsche Telekom. T-Labs current research areas are: Future Networks, Spatial Computing and Decentralized Systems. History T-Labs were founded in 2004 as the cen ...

in Berlin as a senior scientist in the ''Quality and Usability'' lab. From 2009 to 2015, he was junior professor at Technische Universität Berlin, heading the ''Assessment of IP-based Applications'' group''.''

Research topics

-based voice transmission systems * Virtual communication environments for video conferencing with multiple participants * Multi-modal communication systems * Audio-visual quality of IP-based video * Quality of Experience (QoE) for 3D-

audio Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound *Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound *Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum *Digital audio, representation of sound ...

and 3D-

video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syste ...

Honors and awards

* 2007: Award of ''Information Technology Society'' (ITG) of VDE for outstanding research publications from young ITG scientists * 2011: Johann-Philipp-Reis AwardJohann-Philipp-Reis-Preis 2011 goes to Prof. Alexander Raake and Dr. Patrick Marsch
, press release of VDE from November 2011; Retrieved 2012-06-08

References

External links

Website from Alexander Raake at TU Ilmenau

Website from Alexander Raake at TU Berlin

Website from Alexander Raake at Deutschen Telekom Innovation Laboratories
{{DEFAULTSORT:Raake, Alexander 1971 births German electrical engineers Scientists from Düsseldorf Living people Academic staff of Technische Universität Ilmenau Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia