I regularly offer theses in the fields of probabilistic shaping, coding for high-throuput applications, and algorithms for communication. Please reach out if you are interested in a thesis in any of my research fields. A good background in information theory and channel coding are preferable, but the requirements generally depend on your interests.

Please include a description of your interests and corresponding academic background in your application. If you have a thesis idea, I am happy to discuss your suggestions. Also, I am available to supervise external theses as long as they are in my field of expertise.

The wiretap channel [1] describes a communication problem where the communication between Alice to Bob needs not only be reliable but also kept secret from an eavesdropper Eve. The additional secrecy constraint imposes new challenges on code design and may require new tools such as stochastic encoding to achieve the secrecy capacity [1], [2]. The student will read and understand the concept of secrecy capacity, and review practical coding schemes for the wiretap channel proposed in literature. The student will compare the different approaches and discuss the tradeoffs that appear.

[1] A. D. Wyner, “The wire-tap channel,” Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 54, no. 8,  pp. 1355–1387, Oct. 1975.
[2] I. Csiszár and J. Körner, “Broadcast channels with confidential messages,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. IT-24, no. 3, pp. 339–348, May 1978.

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