Honors and Awards

Emna Ben Yacoub will be awarded the Walter Gademann Master’s Thesis Award of the TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) for her outstanding Master's thesis. [read more]

Tobias Prinz, Fabian Steiner, Thomas Wiegart and Peihong Yuan have been awarded the 2019 Heinrich Hecht Award for designing the best channel code in a "Wanted: Best Channel Codes for Short Underwater Messages" competition. [read more]

Our senior researcher Sven Puchinger has received the Südwestmetall Advancement Award (Südwestmetall-Förderpreis) for his dissertation "Construction and Decoding of Evaluation Codes in Hamming and Rank Metric", which was advised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Bossert at Ulm University, Germany. [read more]

Prof. Eitan Yaakobi from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, has received a TUM IAS Hans Fischer Fellowship. [read more]

Andreas Lenz, Paul Siegel (UCSD), Antonia Wachter-Zeh and Eitan Yaakobi (Technion) have received the Memorable Paper Award at the Non-Volantile Memories Workshop 2019 in San Diego for the paper "Coding over sets for DNA storage". [read more]

Fabian Steiner, Georg Böcherer, and Patrick Schulte have won the 2019 IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT) Paper Award for their publication "Rate adaptation and reach increase by probabilistically shaped 64-QAM: an experimental demonstration" that appeared in April 2016. The paper proposes a transmission system with adjustable data rate for optical fiber that enables high-speed communication close to the Shannon limit. The system is based on Georg, Patrick, and Fabian's probabilistic… [read more]

Our alumnus Tobias Fehenberger received the 2018 dissertation award of the Information Technology Society (ITG) of the German Association of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Information Technology e.V. (VDE) for his thesis "Analysis and Optimization of Coded Modulation for Nonlinear Fiber-Optic Communication Systems". The supervisor was Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Hanik. Each year, three theses from the field of communications engineering are awarded the prize. The award ceremony took place… [read more]

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to Antonia Wachter-Zeh. Her project inCREASE (Coding for Security and DNA Storage) deals with protecting data from unauthorized access and errors. For example, advances in quantum computers could mean that current encryption methods may soon be insecure. Prof. Wachter-Zeh is working on new encryption methods using algebraic codes that could help to block this threat. A second application of her research is storing data efficiently… [read more]

Former TUM-LNT Postdoc Mansoor Yousefi and TUM Ambassador Frank Kschischang have won the 2018 IEEE Information Theory Society (ITSoc) Paper Award for their three-part paper on "Information Transmission using the nonlinear Fourier Transform (NFT)," published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in July 2014. The ITSoc Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to ITSoc appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years. The goal of… [read more]

Andreas Lenz received the Fulbright Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates. The scholarship supports and funds research stays with a duration between 4 and 6 months at an American University. With this scholarship, Andreas will visit the University of California, San Diego in spring 2019 for a research project in collaboration with Prof. Paul Siegel, who is chair of the Center for Memory and Recording Research. Link: … [read more]