FH-Prof. DI Dr. Lars Mehnen
Senior Lecturer/Researcher
Education
- TU-Wien: Dipl.Ing. in Computer Engineering and Medical Informatics, Dr. Techn. (Institute for Fundamentals and Theory of Electrical Engineering and at the Institute of Technical Mathematics)
Professional career
- 2019- Now Lector at UAS Technikum Wien for Computer Science, Austria.
- 2010-2013 Austrian representative of the QB50 (EC F7) initiative cooperating with more then 50 universities. GFWG task force membeer coordinating the radio communication, security and the authentication services.
- 2006-2010 Coordinator of the GENSO (Global Education Network for Satellite Operations) main server, administrator, programmer and designer – an ESA (European Space Agency) initiative cooperating with more then 6 universities. Taskleader for the network communication, security and the authentication services.
- 2004-2007 University Assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Fundamentals and Theory of Electrical Engineering, Austria.
- 2003- 2019 Lector at the UAS Technikum Wien for Biomedical Engineering, Austria.
- 2002-2006 Task leader for the EC-Project B-Sens, an European project in the 5th framework, involving 5 European countries, several university institutions and commercial companies.
- 1998-2002 Research assistant at the Vienna University of Technology,
- Institute of Fundamentals and Theory of Electro technical Engineering, Austria.
- 1999-2006 Coordinator, main server administrator for the SSETI (Student Space Education and Technology Initiative) association. An European micro satellite project (initiated by ESA), which successfully launched it’s first micro-satellite end of 2005.
- Core member of the SSETI Express team (UHF module, ground-station server, structures fabrication, …)
- 1997-1998 Programmer for Telecommunication-Switches
- at SIEMENS Austria.
- 1993-1996 Technical assistant at an FFF (Forschungsförderungsfonds)
- Project at the “Institut für Verfahrens und Umwelttechnik” at the Vienna University of Technology.
- Project: Biological waste air treatment. This project successfully resulted in a SONY patent and is actually used at ÖMV, BMW, VW, Krems Chemie and further European companies.
- Optimisation of a control parameters of highly nonlinear bioreactor feedback loop using evolutionary strategies.
- 1996-2002 Tutor for Computer Simulations, Mathematics department, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
- 1994-1996 Tutor for Oracle, Databases department, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
- 1987 -2004 Main server administrator, security manager and programmer at the GLI mbH (Gesellschaft für Logistik und Informationssysteme) in Munich, Germany. A worldwide operating company, specialized in EDIFACT, ELFE.
Areas of activity at the UAS Technikum Wien / focus of teaching
- Statistics
- Parametric statistics
- Non-parametric statistics
- Multivariate analysis
- Artificial Intelligence
- Logic-oriented programming (Prolog)
- Classical artificial intelligence
- Evolutionary algorithms (EA)
- Neural networks
- Aerodynamics (sports equipment technology)
- Physics (for game engineering)
- Programming
- Object-oriented modeling (UML)
- Java
- Lisp
- C/C++
- C#
- Cobol
- Matlab
- R
- Compiler construction
- Functional programming
- Basics of computer science
- Database systems
- Operating systems and networks
- Algorithms and data structures
Thematic interests, R&D
- Explainable EA
- Non-parametric EA
- Non-parametric AI