Prof. Dr. Gerd Bumiller

“Expert in Digital Signal Processing, Measurement Technology, Powerline and Smart Grid Communication”

After completing his training as a communications electronics technician at Grundig AG, Gerd Bumiller studied Communications Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg. He was awarded his doctorate at FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg in 2009 with a dissertation entitled “Single-Frequency Network Techniques for Rapidly Adaptive Ad Hoc Communication Networks over Power Supply Lines”.

In 1997, he joined a medium-sized company where he worked in development, project and research management and assumed technological responsibility for all powerline communication products. In close collaboration with several national and international universities, numerous R&D projects were carried out in the fields of wired and wireless communication, measurement technology and metering. In this capacity, Gerd Bumiller participated in the Open Metering Initiative of ZVEI and figawa and is a member of the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (DKE), the national standardisation organisation.

From 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, he served as Secretary of the IEEE Technical Committee for Power Line Communication (TC-PLC) of the IEEE Communications Society. From 2018 to 2022, he was Chair of the TC-PLC.

In 2011, Gerd Bumiller was appointed Professor at Hochschule Ruhr West in the Institute of Computer Science. From 2012 to 2015, he held the endowed professorship funded by Sparkasse Bottrop and served as Coordinator of the Departmental Advisory Board. Between 2018 and 2022, he was Programme Director of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Energy Informatics.

At Hochschule Ruhr West, he leads a research group from which three cooperative doctoral projects have already emerged. Two Research Associates are currently pursuing their doctorates, and further candidates are preparing to do so. To date, 40 conference publications in IEEE Xplore (Communication, Instrumentation & Measurement, and Power & Energy Society conferences) and three journal articles in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement have resulted from this work.