Research Leader
SRC Bochum
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Since beginning of the year 2007 I have been working as the Research Leader of the Automotive Systems Team in the System Research Center in Bochum, Germany. I joined Nokia in 1998 as a Design Engineer. Some years later I was promoted to Senior Research Engineer. Before my career at Nokia I received my degree in electrical engineering from the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, graduated with a thesis on Reed-Solomon codecs.
Associated with my studies I spent some time at the Philips Speech Processing Laboratory and at the Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering.
The activities of my team are twofold. On the one hand we deal with communication related research questions in the automotive domain - with a profound background in non-cellular technologies and now with a clear focus on cellular systems like EUTRAN and UTRAN. On the other hand we develop applications on top of the communication systems, including mobile clients and web-based servers. Our target is to provide a complete end-to-end solution to the customers and fulfill our mission as a System Research Center. Examples of applications accrue from both the car-to-infrastructure domain (e.g. infotainment and automatic map generation applications) and the car-to-car domain (e.g. traffic and routing applications) and base upon the intelligence in the existing or to-built communities (principles of swarm & mass intelligence).
Signal processing (of all kinds), digital radio baseband architectures (e.g. flexible solutions), mobile (web-)services in the automotive domain.
Gupta C., Kosakowski M., Kaufmann A., Bui T., Zielinski E., Improved Latency for Time Critical OFDM Based Systems in Vehicular Environment, 1st IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications, September/October 2007, Baltimore, USA
Gupta C., Bui T., Kaufmann A., Kosakowski M., Zielinski E., Reducing Latency and Area on OFDM Based Systems through a Combination of IFFT and Interleaving, 12th International OFDM-Workshop, August 2007, Hamburg, Germany
Kaufmann A., Lobko M., et al., Advanced Compiler Technologies for Embedded Streaming, HiPEAC ACACES Summer School, July 2007, L'Acquila, Italy
Schwoerer L., Kaufmann A., Westermann P., Applying Data Mapping Techniques to Vector DSPs, VII. International Symposium on Systems, Architectures, Modeling and Simulation, July 2007, Samos, Greece
Kaufmann A., WIGWAM - Results and Achievements at Nokia 2004-2007, Seminar on public funded projects in Germany (BMBF Statusseminar), June 2007, Mainz, Germany
Kaufmann A., Schwoerer L., Achievements and Results of Wireless Gigabit Radio with Advanced Multimedia Support Program, WIGWAM Program Closing Convention, February 2007, Dresden, Germany
