Awards

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Antonia Wachter-Zeh has been honored with the Johann-Philipp-Reis prize in recognition of her exceptional contributions to the fields of cryptography and coding theory. [read more]

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded Polina Bayvel the Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt-Forschungspreis) in recognition of her scientific accomplishments. Professor Bayvel is the head of the Optical Networks Group (ONG) at the University College London (UCL) which she founded in 1994. Her research interests include digital signal processing for fibre-optic links, wavelength-routed optical networks, and ultrawideband transmission. She has authored and co-authored more than 300… [read more]

Every year, the student council of the TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering awards prizes to lecturers who went above and beyond their duty as teachers and excelled at their work. This year, Francesca Diedolo received the Teaching Assistant Award at the "Tag der Fakultät" for giving the tutorials of our course "Machine Learning for Communications". Link: https://www.fs.ei.tum.de/services/dozentenpreis [read more]

Kiran Adhikari is a recipient of a scholarship from a 2023 Program for Bavarian and Israeli Early Career Researchers to conduct a research stay abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. [read more]

Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. Shirin was a postdoctoral fellow at the TUM Institute for Communications Engineering from 2012-2016. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. [read more]

A subgroup of the Professorship of Coding and Cryptography, consisting of Dr. Rawad Bitar, Christoph Hofmeister, Maximilian Egger and Luis Maßny and the master student Afonso de Sá Delgado Neto ranks second in the renown iDASH competition 2022. [read more]

The TUM-Team formed by Christoph Hofmeister, Maximilian Egger and the master student Cengizhan Kaya gets awarded the second place of the ITW competition 2022. [read more]

Every year, the student council of the TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering awards prizes to lecturers who went above and beyond their duty as teachers and excelled at their work. This year, Anisha Banerjee and Lukas Holzbaur will receive the Teaching Assistant Award at the "Tag der Fakultät" on September 30th for giving the tutorials of our Channel Coding course. Link: https://www.fs.ei.tum.de/services/dozentenpreis [read more]

Emna Ben Yacoub is the recipient of a 2022-23 Fulbright Foreign Scholarship. The Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to study and conduct research in the United States. Emna will be visiting Prof. Bane Vasić at the University of Arizona to work on decoding algorithms, trapping sets, and neural network decoders. [read more]

Violetta Weger was awarded the prestigious EuroTechPostdoc2 fellowship. EuroTechPostdoc2 is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship programme for experienced high-potential researchers. The projects are collaborative projects between two universities. Violetta's host will be TUM and her co-host where she will spend some months is Prof. Alberto Ravagnani from TU/e. Her project will deal with code-based cryptography and rank-metric codes. [read more]