Michael Tangermann
Machine Learning / Neural Signal Processing /
Brain-Computer Interfacing
Dr. Michael W. Tangermann (né
Schröder)
Junior Research Group Leader
University fo Freiburg
Dept. Computer Science
Alberstr. 23, Room 0.003
Germany
Phone: (+49) 0761.203.8423
Email:
michael.tangermann(AT)blbt.uni-freiburg.de
Short Vita
Under my birth name Michael Schröder I received a diploma (~M.Sc.) in computer science (minor subject biology) from the University of Tübingen in 2000. During my studies, I was scholar of the German National Academic Foundation. From 2000 to 2005, I was a research assistant and Ph.D. student in the Computer Engineering group headed by Prof. Rosenstiel and the group of Prof. Birbaumer (Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology) at the University of Tübingen, Germany. During this time, I collaborated tightly with the group of Prof. Schölkopf (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Dept. Empirical Inference for machine learning and perception). In October 2005, I have joined the Intelligent Data Analysis Group headed by Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller at the Fraunhofer Institute FIRST in Berlin, Germany. In February 2007, I married and changed my family name to Tangermann. In spring 2007, I moved to the Technical University of Berlin branch of the IDA Group, where I worked as a PostDoc in BCI research. In summer 2007 I received my doctorate with a dissertation about feature selection for BCI from the University of Tübingen. From 2008 to 2013, I headed a research group with 3 PhD students and several Master- and Bachelor students, financed by the European integrated project TOBI. Starting with July 2013, I joined the University of Freiburg (Germany) as a Junior Research Group Leader within the cluster of excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools.I am married - my wife and I raise three cute daughters (5, 6 and 8 years old), which I enjoy spending my free time with. Furthermore I like singing in a choir and and riding my mountain bike through the black forrest hills.
Current Main Research Interests
- performance prediction of BCI usage
- BCI in the context of stroke rehabilitation
- adaptive neural signal processing to cope with non-stationarity
effects
- novel auditory brain-computer interfaces (BCI) paradigms that exploit spatial hearing
- BCI for patients and healthy users
- automatic artifact classification of the electroencephalogram (EEG) and related brain signals
- applications for BCI: BCI-based gaming, media interaction and entertainment
- machine learning for mental state monitoring
Former Research Interests
- kernel methods for feature extraction and feature selection
- machine learning for children's online training system (game) to reduce rolandic spikes in the EEG
- machine learning on production line data for yield maximation (e.g. for semiconductor fabs)
- control methods for invasive functional electrical (axonal) stimulation (FES) of the upper limb
Service to the community
Teaching and education activities
Besides my teaching
activities,
I
constantly supervise a number of diploma-, master- and bachelor theses
projects, student
research assistants and students working on small projects in
our
lab.
Reviewer activities for funding agencies, journals and conferences
- Nature Methods
- Frontiers Neuroscience
- Frontiers Neurorehabilitation
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Journal of Neuroscience Methods
- Journal of Neural Engineering (JNE)
- International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI)
- Neural Networks
- Experimental Brain Research
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
- IEEE Rehabilitation Engineering
- Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering
- EMBS
- MIT Press
- EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing
- SIGCHI
- Int. BCI Workshop and Training Course Graz
- BBCI Workshop Berlin
- TOBI Workshop 1 and 2
- Technologiestichting STW (Dutch)
Dissemination activities
- Presentation of BCI research topics on various conferences
- Live demos of BCI-controlled applications in press events
(pinball game 2010, chess 2012)
- Presentation of live BCI demos at the international ICT fair Brussels (Photobrowser) and during the "Tag der Mathematik" in Berlin (BCI controlled chess)
- Presentation of live BCI demos at the CeBit international computer fair (mental typewriter 2006, pinball game 2010)
- BCI public live demo in national TV show (Große Show der Naturwunder)
- Several BCI demos for scientific TV shows (e.g. Galileo)
- BCI demos for patient TV programme ("Selbstbestimmt", WDR, 3-Sat)
Competitions
Committee work, workshop organization
- Organization of Workshop "Auditory BCI", May 31- June 4, 2013,
Fifth International BCI Meeting
Asilomar, California, USA - Organization of Workshop "Other Uses of BCI technology", May 31-
June 4 2010, Fourth International Meeting
Asilomar, California, USA - Future BNCI roadmap committee member 2010
- Program committee member of the TOBI workshop 2010 in Graz and 2010 in Rome
- Poster chair of the BBCI workshop 2009 and 2012 in Berlin