Awards

Ata Khalili has been awarded a travel grant to attend IEEE Globecom 2024, where he will present his accepted paper entitled "Advanced ISAC Design: Movable Antennas and Accounting for Dynamic RCS". The conference will be held December 8-12 in Cape Town, South Africa. IEEE Globecom is recognized as a ...

Teena tom Dieck and Maximilian Schäfer presented their work at the 11th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), held in Milan, Italy, from October 28–30, 2024. NanoCom is one of the premier conferences for the interdisciplinary molecular communications commun...

Timo Jakumeit from the Institute for Digital Communications has won the IEEE ComSoc MBMC-TC (Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications Technical Committee) logo competition. Out of five submissions in the final short list, Timo's logo received the highest number of votes, with 38.4% of t...

Johanna Fröhlich won 2nd place in the Green ICT Award 2024 from Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland (FMD) for her bachelor thesis "Algorithms for Matrix Decomposition for Computational Coding". This thesis introduces algorithms to reduce the computational cost during the inference phase of ...

Amine Lahmeri and Lukas Brand won 3rd and 1st place, respectively, in the IEEE Communications Society's Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) competition. The 4MT competition challenged graduate students to explain their research topic to a broad, non-specialist audience in just 4 minutes. In the preliminary rou...

IDC researchers Nikita Shanin, Hedieh Ajam, Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, Laura Cottatellucci, and Robert Schober have received Best Paper Award 2023 from the TAOS technical committee (TC) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for their Globecom 2023 paper: “EH Modelling and Achievable Rate for FSO...

The lab course "Digital Communication" was evaluated very well in the winter semester 2022/23 and ranked 2nd in the teaching evaluation of the FAU Faculty of Engineering.

Former and current IDC members Alex Yu, Dongfang Xu, Ying Sun, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, and Robert Schober received the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize for their paper “Robust and Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 11, pp.2637-2652, Nov. 2020.