Dr. Sascha Jockel

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Excerpt of Professional Qualification

Program Manager Biomedical Software Solutions
Sysmex Europe SE, Digital Lab Solutions, Hamburg

Leads product discovery and early-stage development initiatives for digital healthcare solutions, focusing on cloud-based platforms, data-driven applications, and AI-enabled innovations. Drives end-to-end discovery processes from identification of unmet user needs to validation of product hypotheses, ensuring alignment with clinical, technical, and regulatory requirements. Shapes innovation pipelines by enabling cross-functional collaboration across global stakeholders and guiding early architectural, feasibility, and strategic decisions to transform concepts into viable development candidates.

Program and Project Lead System Projects Automation
Eppendorf, Liquid Handling, Hamburg

Leads complex automation program and strategic projects focusing on robotics, AI, and cloud solutions. Drives the strategic vision for product design and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring alignment with market trends, technical advancements, and regulatory requirements. Guides make or buy decisions and collaborates with architects and product owners to shape the evolving system architecture.

Manager New Business & Innovation
Philips Healthcare, Diagnostic X-Ray, Concept Development, Hamburg

Innovation management and strategic contribution to the north star strategy and AI roadmap for the Diagnostic X-ray (DXR) business unit. Strategic selection and leading of new business projects, taking into account market requirements, market opportunities and business strategy. Identification and validation of novel and further development of existing business opportunities.

Senior Image Processing Engineer
Philips Healthcare, Diagnostic X-Ray, Global Advanced Development, Hamburg

Specialist for clinical image processing, software development, risk mitigation prior to line production, strategic management of global advanced development projects, planning and execution of clinical and feasibility studies, requirement analysis, customer complaint handling, system verification, consulting of internal and external departments and customers.

Project Lead
Philips Healthcare, Diagnostic X-Ray, Global Advanced Development, Hamburg

Certified Project Management Associate - IPMA Level D, responsible for planning, procurement and execution of projects for realisation of new innovative (software) products, defining and communicating project goals, procuring project requirements, managing project management triangle (costs, time, scope), stakeholder management.

Key Reference Projects

Dr. rer. nat.

Crossmodal Learning and Prediction of Autobiographical Episodic Experiences using a Sparse Distributed Memory

During my PhD I developed a connectionist memory model for a service robot that satisfies a number of desiderata: associativity, vagueness, approximation, robustness, distribution and parallelism. A biologically inspired and mathematically sound theory of a highly distributed and sparse memory serves as the basis for this work. The so-called sparse distributed memory (SDM), developed by P. Kanerva, is used to implement an autobiographical long-term memory for a mobile service-robot to store and retrieve episodic sensor and actuator patterns.

The memory concept is applied to several domains of mobile service robotics, and its feasibility and performance for the respective areas of robotics is analysed. The studied areas range from pattern matching, mobile manipulation, (vision-based) navigation, telemanipulation to crossmodal integration. The robot utilities properties of sparse distributed memory to detect intended actions of human operators and to predict residual motion trajectories of initiated motions. A hierarchical extension enables the memory model to link low-level sensory percepts to higher-level semantic task descriptions. Several examples show the model's fast and online learning capability.

Sascha Jockel. "Crossmodal Learning and Prediction of Autobiographical Episodic Experiences using a Sparse Distributed Memory", Doctoral thesis, University of Hamburg, Germany, October 2010, Supervisors: J. Zhang, B. Neumann.

Dipl. Inf.

3 Dimensional Reconstruction from Monocular Image Sequences

My diploma thesis addresses an image based three dimensional reconstruction system for robot applications in context of daily table scenarios. Monocular perception will be done at two spatial-temporal varying positions by a micro-head camera mounted on a six-degree-of-freedom robot-arm of our service-robot TASER. Via user interaction the epipolar geometry and fundamental matrix will be calculated by selecting 10 corresponding corners in both input images predicted by a Harris-corner-detector. The images then will be rectified by the calculated fundamental matrix to bring corresponding scanlines together on the same vertical image coordinates. Afterwards a stereocorrespondence is made by a fast Birchfield algorithm that provides a 2.5 dimensional depth map of the scene. Based on the depth map a three dimensional textured point-cloud is presented as interactive OpenGL scene model.

Sascha Jockel. "3-dimensionale Rekonstruktion einer Tischszene aus monokularen Handkamera-Bildsequenzen im Kontext autonomer Serviceroboter", Diploma thesis, University of Hamburg, Germany, June 2006, Supervisors: J. Zhang, W. Hansmann.

B. Sc.

Follow-Right-Wall Algorithm Based on Behaviours
(According to Rodney A. Brooks)

My bachelor thesis addresses the design and implementation of a robot's exploration algorithm by following a right-handed wall. This is done by "reactive planning" according to Brooks subsumption architecture. The advantage of such system is that the model of the world is not given preliminary rather it is modeled by sensing. The control system is build of competitive modules where each module wants to establish its respective atomic task.

Sascha Jockel. "Follow-Right-Wall Algorithmus basierend auf der Nutzung von Verhaltensschichten (Nach Rodney A. Brooks)", Bachelor thesis, University of Hamburg, Germany, July 2002, Supervisor: C. Freksa.

History of Bands and Music Projects

BOZINSKY

An ambitious and unsigned band from Hamburg Germany formed in 2005 out of the group Catchy Tunes. Bozinsky published several self-produced EPs of which most are freely available for download. "Kamille, Minze, Murray und Salbei" is Bozinsky's recent EP that was also published in well-known music online stores and music streaming services.

The combination of garage-, noise-, stoner-rock, emocore, pop- and post-punk made Bozinsky what we still are: A powerful, deversified rock-band with a special gift for authentic, dynamic and certainly comedic live rock-shows.

Intrastellar Graph

Project between musicians from Rostock and Hamburg. This project released a 10 track album with the title "Nicos Heaven" in 2009. We have reached the MV-Spion Musikmeisterschaft finals in 2008 and the song "Nicos Heaven" was 4 times Top 1 and 5 times Top 2 at the LOHRO-Radio charts.

dr.Schaedel

Metal project where musicians trained new playing techniques and high-speed timing skills extensively.

Catchy Tunes

Rock/Pop band, the ancestor of Bozinsky.

CM Project

Rock project that came together for some professional recording sessions.

Ali und die Statisten

Cover band.

Impressum

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Sascha Jockel
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