Franz Pernkopf

Franz Pernkopf is a Professor at the Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory, Graz University of Technology, Austria. He holds a MSc from Graz University of Technology (1999) and a PhD from the University of Leoben (2002). His research focuses on machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, and signal processing applications in speech recognition, medical data analysis, and radar technology. He has led the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Dependable Intelligent Systems and contributed to national research networks in signal processing.

His work emphasizes resource-efficient deep learning, Bayesian networks, and time-series analysis. Notable contributions include interference mitigation in radar systems and acoustic event detection. Awards include the Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship (2002) and Young Investigator Award (2010). He advises on projects ranging from lung sound analysis to embedded system optimizations. His lab hosts courses on signal processing and machine learning.