Teaching

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

  • 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-
  • Roberto Ferrara, Quantum Communications, 2018-

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; 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 (11 Postdocs)

  • 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