Dr.-Ing. Tanja Karp, Associate Professor

Texas Tech University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Box 43102
Lubbock, TX 79409-3102

Office: EE 235
Office Hours: MW 9:00 am - 9:50 pm

E-mail: tanja.karp@ttu.edu
Phone: +1 (806) 742-0140
Fax: +1 (806) 742-1245

Fall 2008 Teaching :

EE 1304: Introduction to Electrical Engineering, Section 1 & 2

Research Interests and Activities:

Digital Communications * Multicarrier Data Transmission * xDSL * Channel Coding * Multirate Signal Processing * Audio and Image Coding

Biography:

Dr. Tanja Karp received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering (M.S.E.E.) and the Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.) from Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1995 and 1996, she spent two months as a Visiting Researcher at the Signal Processing Department of ENST, Paris, France, and at the Mutirate Signal Processing Group, University of Wisconsin at Madison, respectively, working on modulated filter banks. In 1997 she joined the Institute of Computer Engineering at Mannheim University, Germany, as a Senior Research and Teaching Associate. From 1998 to 1999 she has also taught as a guest lecturer at the Institute for Microsystem Technology at Freiburg University, Germany. From 2000 to 2006 she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. She is now an Associate Professor at the same institution. Her research interests include multirate signal processing, filter banks, audio coding, multicarrier modulation, and signal processing for communications.
Dr. Karp is an IEEE member and regularly reviews articles for several IEEE and EURASIP transactions.

Policy about Student Applications:

I receive many emails each week from students all over the world applying for financial support through a teaching or research assistantship in order to study at Texas Tech. Unless I have funding available and am looking for a qualified M.S. student I do not answer these emails.