Guy Kouemou

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Dr. Guy Kouemou
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Born
Guy Leonard Mbotchoua Kouemou

15 January 1970
Citizenship German

Guy Kouemou (born 15 January 1970 in Bafoussam, Cameroon) is a German Aerospace -Engineer and Inventor, with a Camerounian origin.

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Biography

Childhood, education and beginnings

Date of birth January 15, 1970 in Bafoussam Cameroon

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Dr.-Ing. Guy Leonard Kouemou is a German citizen of Cameroonian origin. He comes from the Bamileke royal house and is the king's representative of the Bangwa. [1] Dr. Kouemou is himself an art collector and currently chairman of the supervisory board of the Bangwa Ethnological Museum in Cameroon [2] and the negotiator of the Bangwa. [3]

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Inauguration Rudolf-Duala-Manga-Bell memorial site Ulm

Traditional responsibilities

Kouemou demonstrates his engagement for the population of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, by investing his personal fortune to build hygienic and modern clinics in Cameroon. [4] Kouemou was present at the inauguration of Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, where he inaugurated a memorial site for Manga Bell in Ulm, together with king Jean-Yves Eboumbou Douala Bell. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Career

School career

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  • High school: «Lycee Joss de Douala [10]

University Education

  • 1989 - 1995: Study of electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe with a focus on biocybernetics and bio-medical technology (KIT, then TU Karlsruhe, Fridericiana)
  • He is the laureate of the German Academic Exchange Service of KIT 1996 [11]
  • 1996 - 2000 PhD. For a PhD in electrical engineering and information technology with a focus on artificial intelligence, hidden Markov models [12] and neural networks. [13]
  • Dr. Guy Kouemou is one of the first Afro-Germans [14] with a migration background (not born in Germany, other mother tongue, grown in a different language area) to study electrical engineering entirely in German Germany studied and obtained a doctorate in the German language. "Statement" by President Gerhard Selmayr of the university in the context of the DAAD award ceremony in Karlsruhe. [15]

Intercultural Understandings

Dr. Guy Kouemou is involved in cultural associations with a focus on intercultural understanding. Thus, he is honorary board member and co-founder (2000) of the German-African cultural association MAMY-Afrika e.V. [16] In his role as the king's representative of the Bangwa, he is also the contact person and representative of the Bangwa peoples in the matter of the handling or return of African art objects in close coordination with the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. [17] Furthermore, Dr. Guy Leonard Kouemou is also working with Cameroonian and African works of art, and supports a sustainable manner of returning the pieces which were initially taken away during colonialism. [18]

Family

Scientific organizations and career

Dr. Guy Kouemou has been a member of the Catholic academic student association Unitas since 1988. It was received in December 1988 at the Unitas Guelfia in Munich. He was then accepted into the Unitas Franco-Alemannia in Karlsruhe in 1989, where he had accepted various batches and positions in the association. He was among other things in his active times as a senior (board member), co-senior or Katholikentag co-senior. To this day he maintains very good contacts with the association as a member of the Unitas old gentry. [21]

Deputy Chairman of the Technical Committee Radar Technology of the DGON German Society for Navigation and Positioning. [22]

Owner and managing partner of the medical technology companies

Since 2017, Technology Director at HENSOLDT. [26]

• As part of this activity, Dr. Kouemou with a jury consisting of renowned German professors as well as experts from the industry for years the nationwide student competition awards for the best students nationwide in the fields of aerospace, sensor technology, security technology, radar technology, mathematics, physics and computer science

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• As part of the HENSOLDT Technology Coordinator, Dr. Guy Kouemou is the project coordinator of the Horyzn initiative with the Technical University of Munich as the main sponsor, [27] [28]

Books, inventions, aerospace publications

Inventions, publications medical technology

Culture: Promotion of intercultural activities through African & Caribbean dance and music teachers


Related Research Articles

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