Speech, Language and Cognition in
Brains, Minds and Machines

Awards and Scholarships

2023
Best Paper Award at the IEEE
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
among +1800 submitted and +1000 accepted papers
Gerum, R., Erpenbeck, A., Krauss, P. & Schilling, A. (2023)
Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire Neuron Like Long-Short-Term-Memory Units as
Model System in Computational Biology.

Best Student Paper Award at IEEE
International Conference on Bio-engineering for Smart Technologies
Koelbl, N., Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2023)
Adaptive ICA for Speech EEG Artifact Removal.

Best Poster Award at the Annual Conference of the German Society for
Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (DGSM)
Metzner, C., Schilling, A., Traxdorf, M., Schulze, H., Tziridis, K., & Krauss, P.
Extracting continuous sleep depth from EEG data without machine learning.

Best Lecture Award at FAU in 2022/23 for Computational Visual Perception

2019 – 2020
Scholarship from the Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) of the FAU,
15,000 €
Project: Language processing in artificial neural networks and the human brain

2018
PhD Thesis awarded with summa cum laude

2013
Travel Award, Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung,
500 €
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Regensburg, Germany