Awards

Ziv Goldfeld will be awarded an IEEE Israel 2014 Best Student Paper Award, the certificate will be presented at the IEEEI convention in Eilat, Israel, on Thursday, December 4, 2014. The paper is entitled "Semi-Deterministic Broadcast Channels with Cooperation”. Ziv has been a regular visitor at the LNT over the past 2 years and is supervised by Professor Haim Permuter of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. [read more]

Onur Günlü won the 1st prize in the competition ''Hands-On Project Digital Society'', a competition sponsored by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, DAAD, the Goethe Institute, the German Centre for International Migration (CIM), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Onur was part of the team "Digitizer" whose project was entitled "Profit optimization through enterprise collaboration using digital media". Onur provided the problem definition and solution: he… [read more]

Rana Ali Amjad will be awarded the Walter Gademann Preis of the Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik for his outstanding Master's thesis. The prize will be awarded at the Tag der Fakultät on Nov. 7. The topic of Ali's thesis was developing algorithms to transform a given random process to another random process with desirable properties. His algorithms apply to a wide variety of data science problems, including data compression, energy-efficient communication, and secure (secret… [read more]

Gerhard Kramer has been listed by Thomson Reuters as one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” for 2014, and one of the 120 most influential researchers in Computer Science. Influence is determined by analyzing citation data over the last 11 years to identify those who published the highest-impact work during 2002-2012. The Thomson Reuters list has some 3,200 individuals who published the greatest number of highly cited papers in one of 21 broad fields. Highly cited papers… [read more]

Im Rahmen des jährlich stattfindenden dies legendi - des Tages der Lehre - wurde Prof. Hanik am 13. Februar 2014 mit dem Lehrpreis der TUM ausgezeichnet. Der Preis wird an besonders engagierte Dozenten und Professoren der TUM für deren herausragende Lehre verliehen. Wir gratulieren herzlich! [read more]

Tobias Fehenberger, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik, erhält für seine herausragende Diplomarbeit mit dem Titel "Investigations into the nonlinear capacity limits of fiber-optical communication systems" den Prof. Dr. Ralf Kötter Gedächtnispreis. Der mit 500 Euro dotierte Preis ist nach dem 2009 verstorbenen TUM-Ordinarius für Nachrichtentechnik Ralf Kötter benannt. [read more]

Prof. Gerhard Kramer was awarded the 2014 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. The publication, entitled “Compound Wiretap Channels”, is a joint work of Yingbin Liang, Gerhard Kramer, H. Vincent Poor, and Shlomo Shamai and was published in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Volume 2009, Article ID 142374. [read more]

Die Fachschaft Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik vergibt jedes Jahr einen Preis an Dozenten der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, die auf dem Gebiet der Lehre mehr leisten, als für einen guten Lehrbetrieb nötig wäre.  Joschi Brauchle wurde am Tag der Fakultät am 25.10.2013 für die Betreuung der Übung des Fachs "Channel Coding" ausgezeichnet. [read more]

At IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2013) in Istanbul, Mansoor Isvand Yousefi was selected to receive a 2013 IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award for his paper on "Integrable Communication Channels and the Nonlinear Fourier Transform" (Co-author Frank R. Kschischang). (The other award winner was Mohammad Yassaee from Sharif University.) [read more]

Gerhard Kramer and former Bell Labs colleague Carl Nuzman will receive a 2012 Thomas Edison patent award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for the patent  “Simultaneous Estimation of Multiple Channel Coefficients Using a Common Probing Sequence” (U.S. Patent 8,218,419) The invention is a pilot-based training scheme that significantly expedites cross-talk estimation for vectored DSL systems using joint estimation over groups of tones. Vectoring DSL systems will allow service… [read more]