Teaching

University Courses

Bachelor: Digital Communications, Digital Communications 2, Mobile Communications
Master: Information Theory, Machine Learning for Communications, Multi-User Information Theory
TUM Asia Bachelor: Communications Engineering

Short Courses & Tutorials

Ferienakademie Sarntal, Südtirol, two-week course, recent courses listed

Neural Network Compression (Bachelor & Master students), Sep 2023
Physical Models meet Deep Learning (Bachelor & Master students), Sep 2022
Advanced Topics in Information Theory and Communications (Doctoral Course), Sep-Oct 2021

Current Supervision

Doctoral Thesis Advisor

David Schaber, Optical and Wireless Communications, 2025-
Yue Xia, Federated Learning, 2024-
Daniel Plabst, Direct Detection for Short-Reach Optical, 2023-
Mustafa Karaǧöz, Learning for Wireless, 2023-
Alex Jäger, Receivers for Optical Fiber Channels, 2022-
Andreas Straßhofer, Coding for Wireless, 2022-
Yutong Han, Communications Theory, 2022-
Alexander Sauter, Code Design for Low Latency, 2022-
Hooman Asgari, Massive Multiple Access, 2022-
Constantin Runge, Polar Codes, 2021-
Lorenzo Zaniboni, Joint Communication and Sensing, 2021-
Mahdi Mahvari, Wireless communications, 2021-
Francesca Diedolo, Short Reach Optical Communications, 2021-
Ayman Zahr, Coding and Modulation for Free-Space Optical Links, 2021-
Yusuf Şener, Coding for Multi-user Communications, 2020-
Abdalla Ibrahim, Identification Capacity and Codes, 2019-
Diego Lentner, Information Theory and Coding, 2019-
Thomas Wiegart, Polar Codes and Shaping, 2018-

Postdoc / Habilitation

Christian Deppe, Habilitation on Post Shannon Theory, 2020-

Past Supervision

Dr. Ing. / Ph.D. (25 Dr.-Ing. & 2 Ph.D.)

Delcho Donev, Low-latency Waveforms and Coding, 2017-2022
Tobias Prinz, Polar Codes, 2016-2022
Emna Ben Yacoub, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2024; Error Floors and Efficient Decoding of LDPC Codes
Mohammad Salariseddigh, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2024; Deterministic Identification
Mustafa Coşkun, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2022; Polar Code Design for Successive Cancellation List Decoders
Tayyab Mehmood, Ph.D. DTU, 2022; Rate-adaptive FEC for High-Throughput Communications
Javier García, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2021; Nonlinear Perturbation for Optical Fiber Channels
Peihong Yuan, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2021; Polar Codes and Time-Varying Channels
Andrei Nedelcu, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2021; Compact and Massive MIMO
Amir Ahmadian, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2020; Precoding Algorithms for Massive MIMO Wireless Systems
Patrick Schulte, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2020; Algorithms for Distribution Matching
Thomas Jerkovits, 2016-2020; Channel and Security Coding
Fabian Steiner, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2020; Coding for Higher-Order Modulation and Probabilistic Shaping
Lars Palzer, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2019; Rate-Distortion Analysis of Sparse Sources and Compressed Sensing
Marcin Pikus, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2019; Finite-Precision and Multi-Stream Distribution Matching
Rana Ali Amjad, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2019; Information Theory and Factor Graphs for Machine Learning
Markus Staudacher, 2014-2019; Quantized Precoding for Massive MIMO
Onur Günlü, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2018; Key Agreement with PUFs and Biometric Identifiers
Stefan Dierks, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2018; Multiple Antenna Precoding: Indoor Communications and EIRP
Hannes Bartz, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2017; Algebraic Decoding of Subspace and Rank-Metric Codes
Markus Stinner, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2016; Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes on the BEC
Marwa El Hefnaway, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2015; Spectral Efficiency of Faster-than-Nyquist Signals
Joschi Brauchle, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2015; Algebraic Decoding of Reed-Solomon and Related Codes
Michael Heindlmaier, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2015; Network Coding for Relay and Broadcast Channels
Onurcan İşcan, Dr. Ing.-TUM, 2015; Communications for Two-Way Relaying
Hassan Ghozlan, Ph.D. USC, 2014; Channels with Nonlinearity and Phase Noise
Tobias Lutz, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2014; Coding for Half-Duplex Relay Networks
Ronald Böhnke, Dr.-Ing. Universität Bremen, 2014; MIMO-OFDM Communications
Jie Hou, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2014; Coding for Relay Networks and Effective Secrecy
Mohit Thakur, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2014; Relay Positioning for Multicast Relay Networks
Georg Zeitler, Dr.-Ing. TUM, 2012; Low-Precision Quantizer Design for Communications

Postdoc / Habilitation (12 Postdocs)

Roberto Ferrara, Postdoc, 2018-2024
Uzi Pereg, Postdoc, 2019-2022; joined Technion as Assistant Professor
Georg Böcherer, Dr.-Ing. habil., 2013-2017; Postdoc, 2012-13; joined Huawei in Paris
Bernhard Geiger, Postdoc, 2014-17; joined Know-Center GmbH in Graz
Yongpeng Wu, Postdoc, 2017; joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as Research Prof.
Youlong Wu, Postdoc, 2014-17; joined ShanghaiTech University as Assistant Prof.
Roy Timo, Postdoc, 2014-16; joined Ericsson in Stockholm
Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, 2012-16; joined University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Prof.
Mansoor Yousefi, Postdoc, 2012-16; joined Telecom ParisTech as Assistant Prof.
Luca Barletta, Postdoc, 2012-15; joined Politecnico di Milano as Assistant Prof.
Stefano Rini, Postdoc, 2011-12; joined National Chiao-Tung Univ. as Assistant Prof.
Christoph Hausl, Habilitation, 2010-13; joined Rohde & Schwarz in Munich

Bell Labs (13 Interns from 2000-2008)

Eren Şaşoǧlu, EPFL, Switzerland, 2008; Interference Channel Capacity
Wei Kang, Univ. Maryland, College Park, 2007; Joint Source-Channel Coding for Broadcast Channels
Xiaohu Shang, Syracuse Univ., 2007; Interference Channel Capacity
Danail Traskov, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2006; Coding for Networks with Interference
Hanan Weingarten, Technion, Israel, 2005; Diversity for Compound Broadcast Channels
Yingbin Liang, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2005; Relay Broadcast Channels
Tobias Koch, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2004; The Capacity Pre-Log of Noncoherent Relay Channels
Niranjan Ratnakar, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2004; Multicast Capacity of Relay Networks
Gökhan Mergen, Cornell Univ., 2003; Information Theory for Relay Channels
Abdelaziz Amraoui, EPFL, Switzerland, 2002; Code Design for Multi-Antenna Broadcast Channels
Irem Koprulu, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2002; Network Coding and Routing
Michael Gastpar, EPFL, Switzerland, 2001; Information Theory for Multiple Relay Channels
Raman Venkataramani, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2000; Multiple Description Coding