Save the Date: ZESS PhD Research Forum 2025

At the annual “ZESS PhD Research Forum”, the Center for Sensor Systems offers its doctoral and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to present their research progress.

The aim of the event is the interdisciplinary exchange between the various working groups and external parties and also offers the opportunity to gain presentation experience and improve presentation techniques.

Programme

11.30 h – Session I

Welcome from ZESS & VDI

1. Welcome: Prof Kristof Van Laerhoven (ZESS)
2. Opening (VDI)
3. Keynote: Dr Marina Evers (Chair Kolb)

12.15 h – Session II

Lightning Talks I

1. Erqi Huang (Chair Ihrke): BSNeRF: Broadband Spectral Neural Radiance Fields for Snapshot Multispectral Light-field Imaging
2. Marius Bock (Chair Möller): Temporal Action Localization for Inertial-based Human Activity Recognition
3. Zeyneddin Oz (Chair Van Laerhoven): A Federated Learning Study in Human Activity Recognition
4. Henry Kipsang Misoi (Chair Seeger): Temperature-Dependent Raman Linewidths of CO₂: Insights from Pure Rotational CARS
5. Syed Muhammad Kazim (Chair Ihrke): Refractive Index Tomography of Biological Cells with Coded Phase Camera
6. Mohamed Saleh (Chair Kolb): Detecting Object Parameters in MIMO THz Measurements through Inverse Simulation
7. Jonas Powell (Chair Nelles): Data-Driven State-Space Modeling of an Excavator
8. Yannik Loth (Chair Haring): A Waveguide-Driven Resonator for THz-Biosensing

13.30 h – Session III

Poster Presentations I & Coffee Break

1. Jonas Pöhler (Chair Van Laerhoven): Simulators in HCI: Evaluating Cognitive Load, Interaction Design, and Physiological Responses from Control Rooms to Cycling
2. Pratik Bisht (Chair Kolb): Quad-Quartic Gaussian Surfel Splatting with updated Color basis
3. Hao Qian (Chair Choubey): Neuromemristive circuits as hardware accelerators for edge computing towards ultra-secure bio-sensors (DE-TW-NeuroMemSens)
4. Zeyneddin Oz (Chair Van Laerhoven): FedFitTech: A Baseline for Federated Learning in Fitness Tracking
5. Aryaman Sharma (Chair Kolb): Mesh Aware Gaussian Splatting
6. Michael Brilka (Chair Van Laerhoven): Tracking progress with a proactive video recording system
7. Emrah Dursun (Chair Haring): Scalable Transfer of Graphene (2D Material)
8. Henry Kipsang Misoi (Chair Seeger): Temperature-Dependent Raman Linewidths of CO₂: Insights from Pure Rotational CARS

14.30 h – Session IV

Lightning Talks II

1. Michael Brilka (Chair Van Laerhoven): Capturing Commuter Life: Recording Passenger Attention
2. Felix Thiel (Chair Haring): Direct Confocal Absorption Microscopy (dCAM)
3. Syed Muhammad Raza (Chair Manns): Human Assistance System with Eye-Tracking and Smartwatch Integration
4. Emrah Dursun (Chair Haring): Scalable Transfer of Graphene (2D Material)
5. Dr Patrick Müller (Chair Ihrke): Sensing the Essential – Robust Vision Camera with Hardware Prepended Layer
6. Dr John Meshreki (Chair Ihrke): Entangled Vision: Pushing Boundaries in Quantum Imaging
7. Alireza Yazdani (Chair Van Laerhoven): From Simulation to Visualization: Confirming Tube Bending Predictions with 3D Geometry

15:45 – Session V

Poster Presentations II & Coffee Break

1. Nahshon Obiri (Chair Van Laerhoven): Indoor Localization: Improving LoRaWAN-based Distance Estimation via Environmental-Aware Path Loss Modeling
2. Atikkhan Faridkhan Nilgar (Chair Van Laerhoven): Privacy Perceptions in Robot-Assisted Well-Being Coaching
3. Alexander Auras (Chair Möller): Learned Representations of Discontinuous Functions
4. Zhaoyu Xiong (Chair Kolb): Real-Time Multi-Material Material Method Point Simulation in Virtual Reality Applications
5. Amir Peiraviminaei (Chair Ihrke): Modelling and Recovering Differential Motion from Wavefield Transformations for Transparent Microscopic Objects
6. Dr Andrii Nehrich (Chair Ihrke): Ultrasound 3D manipulations and phase imaging of biological microobjects
7. Shalini Chaudhuri (Chair Choubey): Hardware-Based Protection of Automotive Electronics Against Cyber attacks
8. Fabian Rösner (Chair Seeger): Studies on ammonia injection with Schlieren technique and Laser-Induced Grating spectroscopy

16.45 h – Session VI

Awards & Closing