Biographical note

Markus Rupp was born in 1963 in Völklingen, Germany. He received his Dipl.-Ing. Degree in 1988 at the University of Saarbrücken, Germany, and his Dr.-Ing. degree in 1993 at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, where he worked with Eberhardt Hänsler on designing new algorithms for acoustic and electrical echo compensation. From November 1993 until July 1995, he held a postdoctoral position at the University of Santa Barbara, California, with Sanjit Mitra where he worked with Ali H. Sayed on a robustness description of adaptive filters with impact on neural networks and active noise control. From October 1995 until August 2001, he was a member of Technical Staff at the Wireless Technology Research Department of Bell-Labs in Crawford Hill, NJ, where he worked on various topics related to adaptive equalization and rapid implementation for IS-136, 802.11 and UMTS. In October 2001 he was appointed a Full Professor of Digital Signal Processing in Mobile Communications at the Technische Universität (TU) Wien, where he served as the Dean from 2005 to 2007 and from 2016 to 2017. He was associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2002 to 2005 and is currently associate editor of JASP EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and JES EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was elected AdCom Member of EURASIP from 2004 to 2012, serving as President of EURASIP from 2009 to 2010. He has authored and co-authored more than 500 scientific papers, including 15 patents on adaptive filtering and wireless communications.

Martin Taranetz was born in 1986 in Amstetten, Austria. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and his Dipl.-Ing degree (M.Sc. equivalent) in telecommunications engineering with the highest distinctions from the TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He also received his Dr. techn. degree (Ph.D. equivalent) in telecommunications engineering with the highest honors from the TU Wien in 2015. In his dissertation, he focused on the system level modeling and evaluation of heterogeneous cellular networks. Since 2015, he has been employed as a project assistant in the Mobile Communications group at TU Wien’s Institute of Telecommunications. From January 2014 to April 2014 he was a visiting researcher with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests lie in the broad fields of wireless communications and signal processing. He is a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.