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 +1100 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.
doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN54540.2023.10191268 

Best 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.
doi.org/10.1109/BioSMART58455.2023.10162054 

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
winter semester 2022/23
Lecture 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
Title: Stochastic Resonance as a putative cause of subjective tinnitus

2013

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