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FAU continues to be among the global leaders in Electrical Engineering! According to the latest QS World University Subject Ranking, the university ranks among the Top 200 worldwide and secures sixth place in Germany — maintaining its strong position from last year. But that’s not all: In the Shang...

Knut Graichen, Thore Wietzke, and Julian Kißkalt attended the 11th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2025), from February 19 to 21. Knut Graichen chaired a regular session about „Machine Learning and Data-Based Models”, while Thore Wietzke and Julian Kißkalt presente...

Lars Ullrich has been elected as the new Vice-Chair of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) German Chapter. The ITSS German Chapter serves as a professional platform for the intelligent transportation systems community in Germany. Its mission is to encourage research collaborat...

Knut Graichen and Maximilian Pierer von Esch attended the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024) held in Milan, Italy, from December 16th to 19th. Knut Graichen, as the Editor-in-Chief of Control Engineering Practice (CEP), chaired the journal's annual editorial board meeting. Meanw...

The Chair of Automatic Control is proud to be part of the Department EEI's strong patent performance. From 2022 to 2024, five of the department’s chairs, including ours, ranked among the top 10 patent-active chairs at FAU. This highlights the innovative research conducted at the Chair of Automatic C...

Mehdi Koochak joined our team in November as a new research assistant. Mehdi will focus on the modeling and control of micro-ring modulators for optical data transmission systems.

Meet Savla, Nayanaprasad Deepti Kumar, Ramesh Mummina, and Saisatyasubrahmanya Rahul Yendapalli – the students behind the latest team project in Autonomy Technology. Over the past six months, they have designed and implemented mapping and planning strategies for the four-legged robot Spot, significa...

Philipp Hartmann, Florian Goppelt-Schneider, and Thorben Südhoff attended the 28th IEEE Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC 2024) in Sinaia, Romania from October 10th to 12th. They presented their papers and enjoyed the full conference experience by listening to engaging prese...

On Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, the Chair visited Company Loesch Verpackungstechnik GmbH + Co. KG in Altendorf. The day began with a warm welcome and an introduction to the world of packaging machines for chocolate, chewing gum, and confectionery by Dr. Ferdinand Schwarzfischer, Deputy Chief Technology ...

Tim Goller, Johannes Reinhard, and Markus Schumann attended the 8th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2024) at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne from August 21 to 23. They presented their papers and enjoyed the full conference experience by listening to engagin...