Christoph Draxler

Christoph Draxler is a Researcher at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He specializes in phonetic research, speech databases, and dialectology. His work also involves logic programming and database systems. Draxler is affiliated with both the IPS and the CIS (Center for Information Services) at LMU. He teaches courses on speech databases, multimedia, and Java programming.

Education: Dr. Draxler earned his PhD in Computer Science from Zurich University in 1991 with a thesis titled "Accessing Relational and Higher Databases through Database Set Predicates in Logic Programming Languages". He also holds a habilitation (Dr. habil.).

Research Interests: His research focuses on developing web tools for phonetic analysis, querying speech databases, and studying dialectology through both perceptual and acoustic methods. He also explores logic programming applications in database systems and natural language processing.

Projects: He has been involved in significant projects such as SpeechDat-Car (speech data in mobile environments), VeriDat (German speaker verification database), and SpeechDat-II/M (German telephone speech collection). Additionally, he developed a Prolog to SQL compiler.

Awards: No specific awards are mentioned in the provided information.

Advising and Grants: No details on advised students or grants are provided in the available texts.

Labs/Teams: He is part of the IPS team and collaborates with the CIS department at LMU.