Honors and Awards

Our work Experimental Demonstration of Capacity Increase and Rate-Adaptation by Probabilistically Shaped 64-QAM was accepted as a postdeadline paper at the peer-reviewed European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC). This work was co-authored by Fred Buchali, Georg Böcherer, Wilfried Idler, Laurent Schmalen, Patrick Schulte, and Fabian Steiner. [read more]

The Rate-X Transceiver of Georg Böcherer, Patrick Schulte, and Fabian Steiner was selected for stage two of the Bell Labs Prize 2015. We now work towards demonstrating the potential impact of the Rate-X transceiver on future communication systems. [read more]

Die Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften hat elf Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aufgrund ihrer wissenschaftlichen Leistungen als neue Mitglieder gewählt – darunter zwei Professoren der Technischen Universität München (TUM): Prof. Gerhard Kramer, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Nachrichtentechnik, und Prof. Matthias Rief, Lehrstuhlinhaber für Molekulare Biophysik. [read more]

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]