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Dr. Ph.D. Rawad Bitar

Technical University of Munich

Chair of Communications Engineering (Prof. Kramer)

Postal address

Postal:
Theresienstr. 90
80333 München

Biography

Research Interests

My research interest is centered around privacy, scalability, security and reliability of distributed systems. The applications may differ but the goal remains the same: study theoretical and fundamental limits of innovative storage and computing systems and design codes achieving those limits. My current work is motivated by the following research directions.

  • Federated learning
  • Private and secure distributed computing
  • Distributed storage
  • DNA-based storage systems
  • Private and secure network coding.

Awards

  • DFG (German Research Foundation) grant for a temporary position for a Principal Investigator "Private Secure and Efficient Codes for Distributed Machine Learning". (2023 -- 2026)
  • EuroTech Visiting Research Programme grant. (March 2023)
  • Best Poster Award on Optimization and Machine Learning in Princeton Day of Optimization, Princeton, New Jersey. (September 2018)

Service

Workshop co-Organizer

  • Munich Workshop on Coding and Cryptography 2022

Guest Editor

  • Frontier in Communications and Networks

Technical Program Committee (TPC) member

  • Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC) 2023
  • IEEE International Workshop on Information Theory (ITW) 2023
  • 13th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) 2022

Session Chair

  • IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2022
  • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2022
  • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2021

Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT)
  • IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Information Security
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • ScienceDirect Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • IET Information Security
  • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
  • IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  • IEEE Global Communication Conference: Communication Theory (Globecom)
  • IEEE Global Communication Conference: Workshops: Network Coding and Applications (NetCod)
  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

Teaching

  • Winter semester 2021/2022: Security in Communications and Networks, jointly with Prof. Dr.-Ing Antonia Wachter-Zeh
  • Summer semester 2021: Coding Theory for Storage and Networks, jointly with Dr.-Ing Sven Puchinger
  • Winter semester 2020/2021: Security in Communications and Networks, jointly with Prof. Dr.-Ing Antonia Wachter-Zeh
  • Summer semester 2020: Coding Theory for Storage and Networks, jointly with Dr. Alessandro Neri

Theses

Available Theses

Theses in Progress