Wolfgang Koch (computer scientist)

Koch is involved in the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS) within the globally operating Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as an IEEE Fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and Member of the Board of Governors,. In 2014, he founded the Germany Section of the IEEE AESS and has been Chapter Chair.

Koch is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) and supports program committees for ISIF's FUSION conference series, and was Executive Chairman of FUSION 2008 in Cologne, .

In 2005, Koch founded the annual Sensor Data Fusion – Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF) event series[9] as a meeting of the fusion community of Germany and neighboring countries, which he also chairs and which has been held annually since 2011 as a peer-reviewed IEEE symposium at the Universitätsclub Bonn and has been a component of the content-related international ISIF-FUSION and IEEE-MFI conferences on several occasions.

From 2002 to 2010, Koch taught as a lecturer at the chair of Armin B. Cremers on a part time basis and habilitated in the field of applied computer science at the University of Bonn. At the University of Bonn Institute of Computer Science he has been teaching as an Apl. Professor since 2018, focusing on signal processing, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, resource management. He is also involved in Carl Cranz Society for Technical and Scientific Education [de].

Koch was born and brought up in Nuremberg, Bavaria, the eldest of three sons of the lawyer, insurance scientist, and manager Peter Koch [de] and his wife Luise, née Köllner. He passed his Abitur at the Charlemagne Gymnasium [de] in Aachen. At RWTH Aachen University, he studied physics and mathematics, graduating in physics (diploma in 1987). He received his doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1990 at the Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology of the RWTH Aachen with a dissertation in the field of ergodic theory of dynamical systems under the supervision of Gert Roepstorff [de].

Johann Wolfgang Koch (born 18 October 1962) is a German physicist and computer scientist. He teaches applied computer science at the University of Bonn, Germany, and is chief scientist of the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics. In 2011, Koch was elected a IEEE Fellow and since 2015, he has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer