Innovative Projects Realized

Analyzing gamma-ray spectra and mapping them to corresponding isotopes

This research project aims to program a hand-held spectrometer to identify and analyze gamma radiation peaks emitted from isotopes. Based on the detected peaks, the device will identify the specific isotope from the gamma ray that was emitted. The partner organization will be able to commercialize such a device to be used in different areas such as nuclear safety, threat detection, medical imaging, radioactive clean-up, as well as any sectors of industry that deal with the identification and handling of radioactive isotopes. The small size of such spectrometers will make them ideal for use in the field as well as the lab.

A music expert visual assistant

Modern music providers offer multiple services such as artist recommendations, browsing, playlist generation etc. Users interact with these services using graphical interfaces on computers and mobile devices. There are applications that need voice-only interactions such as smart watches or when the user’s hands and eyes are occupied. Virtual assistants, such as Siri by Apple and Alexa by Amazon, are commercial examples of voice driven assistants. The proposed research investigates the development of a virtual assistant that is designed for meaningful music service interactions. In addition to basic music playback commands the assistant will engage in music-specific dialogs supported by a knowledge base of music facts, automatic music content analysis, and effective speech recognition using domain-specific constraints. This work is an example of integrative artificial intelligence and a human-in-the loop system. Our goal is to achieve complex and meaningful interactions within the constrained but semantically rich domain of music listening.

Internship in Mucosal Immunology and Epithelial Biology

Hyperpolarization of 13C ethyl pyruvate by parahydrogen-induced polarization

The role of extracellular polymeric substances in host-microbe interactions

Blue Carbon studies – Hands on science at the German coastline

Nanoscopic architecture of the cleavage furrow

Identification of novel therapeutic targets in wound healing

Systematic synthesis of defined cluster and nanoparticles and deposition on powder supports

Identification and characterization of RNA binding proteins in a cyanobacterial model organism

Post-processing of cosmological galaxy formation simulations with a radiative transfer code

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