{"id":7639,"date":"2019-01-08T19:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T18:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:45:29","slug":"phd-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/?p=7639","title":{"rendered":"Sarwar defended PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <strong>Omair Sarwar<\/strong> successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled &#8220;Facial Privacy Protection in Airborne Recreational Videography&#8221;. Omair participated in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icephd.org\">Erasmus Mundus Doctoral School on Interactive and Cognitive Environements<\/a> and was co-supervised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk\/~andrea\/\">Andrea Cavallaro<\/a> from Queen Mary University of London. The defense committee was composed by Prof. Hermann Hellwagner (chair), Prof. Ildar Farkhatdinov (Queen Mary University of London) and Prof. Wilfried Elmenreich. Completing a PhD represents a major achievement and marks an important milestone in a professional career. So, congratulations to our most recent PhD graduate!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7642\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7642 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20PhD-titles-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20PhD-titles-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20PhD-titles-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20PhD-titles.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20PhD-titles-73x55.jpg 73w, https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20PhD-titles-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Word cloud created from the titles of the 20 PhD theses supervised by Bernhard Rinner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Omair&#8217;s defense was also special for his supervisor <a href=\"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/?page_id=5984\">Bernhard Rinner<\/a>. &#8220;Omair was my twentieth PhD graduate whom I supervised so far as primary advisor&#8221;, he proudly explains. His first PhD student graduated in 2003, and the dissertations covered topics ranging from smart cameras and sensor networks over multi-UAV systems to security and privacy. &#8220;I was fortunate to collaborate with outstanding students, and we were able to contribute to various fields. However, a simple analysis of the PhD titles identifies <em>&#8220;Distributed Smart Embedded Networks&#8221;<\/em> as a cluster topic. What a nice fit with our institute!&#8221;, Bernhard Rinner concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Omair Sarwar successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled &#8220;Facial Privacy Protection in Airborne Recreational Videography&#8221;. Omair participated in our Erasmus Mundus Doctoral School on Interactive and Cognitive Environements and was co-supervised by Andrea Cavallaro from Queen Mary University of London. The defense committee was composed by Prof. Hermann Hellwagner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[205,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/defense-Sarwar2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7645,"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/7645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}