Honors and Awards

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. In 2024, Alex Jäger and Stefan Ritterhoff received the Teaching Assistant Award for giving the tutorials of our course "Nachrichtentechnik" (digital communications). Link: https://www.fs.ei.tum.de/services/dozentenpreis/ [read more]

Daniel Plabst was nominated for the 2024 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award for his paper "Neural network equalizers and successive interference cancellation for bandlimited channels with a nonlinearity". He was one of six finalists. Daniel gave his presentation at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) in Athens. [read more]

The best poster awards at the 2024 European School on Information Theory (ESIT) were awarded to Anisha Banerjee for her poster "Error-correcting codes for nanopore sequencing" and to Alex Jäger for his poster "Successive interference cancellation for optical fiber using discrete constellations". Congratulations to Anisha and Alex! Link: https://sps.tue.nl/ictlab/esit2024/ [read more]

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]