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 ...

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.

Detailed list of Awards 

  • : Winner of IEEE MBMC-TC Logo Competition (IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications) – 2024
  • : 3rd in the Four-Minute-Thesis Competition at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (IEEE Communications Society) – 2024
  • : 2. Platz des Green ICT Awards (Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland) – 2024
  • : 1st in the Four-Minute-Thesis competition at ICC (IEEE Communications Society) – 2024
  • : VDE Bayern Award (Dissertationspreis) (VDE Bayern) – 2023
  • , , , , , : Lehrevaluation - Bestenliste (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2023
  • , , , , : IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (IEEE Communications Society) – 2023
  • : Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)) – 2023
  • , , , : Best Paper Award (IEEE Global Communications Conference) – 2023
  • , , , , , : Best Paper Award (IEEE ComSoc Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Technical Committee) – 2023
  • : 2nd Price Four-Minute-Theis (4MT) Competition at IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Communication Society) – 2023
  • , , , : The IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize (IEEE Communications Society) – 2022
  • : Student Travel Grant IEEE GlobeCom (IEEE) – 2022
  • : Stuart Meyer Memorial Award (IEEE Vehicular Technology Society) – 2022
  • , , : Best Paper Award (2022 14th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP)) – 2022
  • , , , , , , , , : Best Paper Award (9th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communications (NanoCom22)) – 2022
  • , , , : 3rd Best Paper Award (25th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx20in22)) – 2022
  • , , , : WCNC Best Paper Award (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)) – 2021
  • , , , , , , : 3rd Best Paper Award (IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF 2021)) – 2021
  • : 1st in the KAUST 6G Summit Competition on Connecting the Unconnected (KAUST) – 2021
  • : Mitglied der Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech) (Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech)) – 2020
  • : Lehrevaluation - Bestenliste – 2020
  • , , , , , , : Lehrevaluation - Bestenliste (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2020
  • : Lehrevaluation - Bestenliste (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2020
  • , , , , : ITG Literaturpreis (Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft (ITG) des Vereins Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE)) – 2020
  • , , : ICC Best Paper Award (IEEE International Conference on Communications) – 2020
  • , , , , , , : Best Paper Award (12th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies) – 2020
  • , : IEEE Best Student Paper Award (1st Place) for "Symbol Based Statistical RF Fingerprinting for Fake Base Station Identification" (IEEE Czechoslovakia Section at MAREW) – 2019
  • , , : Globecom Best Paper Award (IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom)) – 2019
  • , : Finalist for the IEEE Young Professionals Best Paper Award for "The Phase Noise and Clock Synchronous Carrier Frequency Offset based RF Fingerprinting for the Fake Base Station Detection" (IEEE WAMICON) – 2019
  • , , , , , , , , , , : Best Paper Award, ACM NanoCom 2019 (6th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication) – 2019
  • , , , , , , : 5G World Forum Best Paper Award (IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum and IEEE 4th 5G Summit Dresden) – 2019
  • : IEEE ComSoc Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications (IEEE Communications Society) – 2018
  • , , , , , : TCGCC Best Paper Award (IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communication & Computing (TCGCC)) – 2017
  • : IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award (IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications Technical Committee) – 2017
  • , , , : ICNC Best Paper Award (International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)) – 2016
  • , , , , : ICC Best Paper Award (IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)) – 2016
  • : Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communication Society (IEEE Communication Society) – 2016
  • : Third best Teaching Evaluation for the master course tutorial on "Digital Communications" among 54 tutorials at FAU for winter semester 2013/2014 (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg) – 2014
  • , : ITG Literaturpreis (Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft (ITG) des Vereins Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE)) – 2014
  • : German Academic Exchange Service's (DAAD) STIBET Final Year Scholarship for Master's Degree (DAAD) – 2014
  • : Third best Teaching Evaluation for the master course tutorial on "Digital Communications" among 58 tutorials at FAU for winter semester 2012/2013 (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnbergn (FAU)) – 2013
  • , , : WCNC Best Paper Award (IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC)) – 2012
  • : NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) – 2012
  • : Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (Engineering Institute of Canada) – 2012
  • : Alexander von Humboldt-Professur (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) – 2012
  • : Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (Canadian Academy of Engineering) – 2011
  • , , , : Best Track Paper Award (IEEE VTC 2011-Spring, "Mobile Satellite & Positioning" Track) – 2011
  • : Second best student award 2010 in the international Master Program "Communications Technology" in Ulm University – 2010
  • , , : ITG Literaturpreis (Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft (ITG) des Vereins Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE)) – 2010
  • : IEEE Fellow (IEEE) – 2010
  • , , , : 1. Platz {EEEfCOM} Innovationspreis 2010 ({GEROTRON} {COMUNNICATION} GmbH) – 2010
  • : Rankings in the B.Sc. studies (German University in Cairo (GUC)) – 2009
  • : Ranked 1st in the B.Sc. degree among the Faculty of Information Engineering and Technology (IET) in the German University in Cairo (GUC), class 2009. (The Faculty of Information Engineering and Technology (IET) in the German University in Cairo (GUC)) – 2009
  • : Mitgliedschaft Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften – 2009
  • : Lehrevaluation - Bestenliste (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2009
  • : DAAD Scholarship during Master studies (German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)) – 2009
  • : Best IEEE GUC poster in the RF internship poster competition (IEEE student branch at the German University in Cairo) – 2009
  • : DAAD Scholarship for a 6-months bachelor project at Ulm University (German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)) – 2008
  • : Charles A. McDowell Award for Excellence in Research (University of British Columbia) – 2008
  • : Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) – 2007
  • : UBC Killam Research Prize (University of British Columbia) – 2006
  • , , : ICUWB Best Paper Award (IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB)) – 2006
  • : GUC academic excellence award (German University in Cairo (GUC)) – 2006
  • : Philipp-Reis-Preis (Die Barbarossastadt Gelnhausen, die Stadt Friedrichsdorf, die Deutsche Telekom AG, der VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Kommunikationstechnik) – 2005
  • , , : EURASIP Best Paper Award (European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP)) – 2005
  • , , , : Vodafone Innovation Award (Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications) – 2004
  • : Preis der ITG (Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE) – 2003
  • , , , : EEEfCOM Innovation Award (Electrical and Electronic Engineering for Communications) – 2003
  • , : IZS Best Student Paper Award (International Zürich Seminar on Broadband Communications) – 2002
  • , : IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Price (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)) – 2002
  • : Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) – 2002
  • , : ITG Literaturpreis (Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft (ITG) des Vereins Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE)) – 2001
  • : Förderpreis der ITG (Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE) – 2000
  • : Förderpreis 2000 (Mannesmann Mobilfunk-Stiftung für Forschung) – 2000
  • , , : EW Best Paper Award (European Wireless Conference) – 2000