Anke Schmeink

Anke Schmeink (née Feiten) (born 1978)[1] is a German mathematician and computer scientist, university professor leading the Chair of Information Theory and Data Analytics (INDA) in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of RWTH Aachen University.[2] Her research topics include wireless networking, edge computing, and machine learning for data analytics.[3]

Education and career

Schmeink earned a diploma in mathematics, with a minor in medicine, from RWTH Aachen in 2002. She continued studying there for a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and information technology in 2006.[4] Her doctoral dissertation, Capacity analysis and resource allocation in wireless communication systems, was supervised by Rudolf Mathar.[5] After working as a research scientist for Philips Research, she returned to RWTH Aachen in October 2012 as a professor at the Centre for Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communications.[4] She is currently Chair of Information Theory and Data Analytics there.[4]

Publications

Schmeink has over 300 publications to her name to date.[3] She publishes under the names Anke Schmeink and A. Schmeink.[4]

Recognition

In 2009, Schmeink was the inaugural recipient of the Helene Lange Prize, a German bi-annual award for young women researchers in digital sciences and engineering, awarded by the EWE Stiftung and named for Helene Lange (1848-1930) a German politician, educator and women's rights activist.[6] In the same year Schmeink joined the young academy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.[7] She is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

References

  1. ^ Schmeink, Anke, German National Library, retrieved 2024-05-30
  2. ^ "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Schmeink, Universitätsprofessorin", Chairs, RWTH Aachen University Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, retrieved 2024-05-30
  3. ^ a b "DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  4. ^ a b c d "Anke Schmeink". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  5. ^ "Anke Schmeink geb. Feiten - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  6. ^ "Hochschulzeitung UNI-INFO // Universität Oldenburg". uol.de. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  7. ^ Awards at the Institute for Theoretical Information Technology, RWTH Aachen University, 2019, retrieved 2024-05-30