Successful Participation at SPAWC 2026 in Athens
Researchers from IDC successfully showcased their latest work at the 27th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communications, held in Athens, Greece, from September 6-9. IDC was represented by Prof. Wolfgang Gerstacker and Bastian Heinlein, who presented two papers at the workshop: The technical program featured keynotes, invited talks, and several poster…Read more
FAU Ranks #1 in Germany for Telecommunication Engineering
In the 2026 ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), Telecommunication Engineering at FAU ranks first in Germany and 75th worldwide. This makes Telecommunication Engineering the highest-ranked subject at FAU in this year’s international comparison. More than 2,000 universities from around 100 countries were evaluated in the 2026 ranking. “Telecommunication Engineering” is the subject category…Read more
Johanna Fröhlich at NHR Conference 2026 in Paderborn
Johanna Fröhlich represented the IDC at the NHR Conference 2026 in Paderborn, Germany. She presented a poster on her research, titled “The Confusion is Real: GRAPHIC – A Network Science Approach to Confusion Matrices in Deep Learning”. The work presents a new explainable AI (XAI) method for analyzing how neural networks distinguish between classes. The…Read more
Teena tom Dieck and Timo Jakumeit Win Presentation Awards at NANOCOM 2026
IDC researchers Teena tom Dieck and Timo Jakumeit received two presentation awards at the 13th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM NanoCom 2026) in St. John’s, Canada. Teena tom Dieck received the Best Poster Presentation Award for her presentation of “Closed-Loop Control of Substrate-Inhibited Reactions in Miniaturized Bioreactors,” selected from 13 poster…Read more
Strong IDC Participation at ACM NANOCOM 2026 in Newfoundland
The IDC was strongly represented at the 13th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM NanoCom 2026), held from September 21–23, 2026, at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. NanoCom brings together researchers from engineering, computer science, biology, chemistry, physics, and related disciplines to advance computing and communication at the…Read more
Timo Jakumeit Awarded CSIT Travel Grant for ACM NANOCOM 2026
IDC doctoral researcher Timo Jakumeit has been awarded a Student Travel Grant to attend ACM NanoCom 2026 in St. John’s, Canada. The $250 CAD grant is sponsored by the Canadian Society of Information Theory (CSIT) and supports his participation in the conference, where he will present his research on molecule source localization in solute-transporting vessel…Read more
Bachelor Thesis / Research Project / Master Thesis — Empirical Analysis of Convex Separability in Modern Deep Learning Frameworks
Background and Recent Results: Deep learning and specifically neural networks (NNs) have emerged as some of the most powerful algorithms applicable to a wide range of problems. Recent works have investigated the convexity of high-dimensional datasets, both in the input domain, as well as in the latent space of feature extractors. It is found that image datasets such as…Read more
Research Project — Centroid Informed Approximate Nearest Convex Hull Classification
Background and Motivation: Recent work found that certain convex separable problems are hard to learn for multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) while being solvable with vanishing generalization error by nearest convex hull classification (NCHC). Applying NCHC to a classification task of nn classes requires to solve nn constrained convex optimization problems and is, hence, computationally intractable for real-world…Read more
Prof. Schober Elevated to EURASIP Fellow
Prof. Schober was elevated to EURASIP Fellow for his “contributions to signal processing for wireless and molecular communication systems”. The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) was founded in 1978 with the purpose / objective of improving communication between groups and individuals that work within the multidisciplinary field of signal processing in Europe and elsewhere,…Read more
Johanna Fröhlich Selected for BayFiD Batch 8
Johanna Fröhlich has been selected for the talent program “BayFiD – Bayerns Frauen in Digitalberufen” initiated by the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Digitales. BayFiD supports women pursuing careers in digital professions by fostering exchange, networking, and personal development. The initiative brings together talented women from diverse backgrounds in technology and digitalization, providing opportunities to strengthen their…Read more
Vasilis Papanikolaou Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE CSNDSP 2026
IDC researcher Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, together with his co-authors Alexis A. Dowhuszko (Aalto University, Finland), Máté Galambos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Carlos Guerra-Yánez (Czech Technical University in Prague), Henrique M. Salgado (University of Porto, Portugal), Goran T. Djordjević (University of Niš, Serbia), Philipp Kleinpaß (DLR, Germany), and Niek Doelman (TNO, Netherlands), has received…Read more
IDC at 7th European Summer School on Microfluidics in London
From July 13 to July 17, our doctoral candidates Timo Jakumeit and Theofilos Symeonidis participated in the 7th European Summer School on Microfluidics (EuroMBR Summer School), hosted by University College London (UCL) at the UCL East campus in London, United Kingdom. They were joined by Daniela Wegner from the Institute of Bioprocess Engineering at FAU,…Read more
Friedemann Laue Wins Third Prize in IEEE ComSoc 4MT Competition
Former IDC member Dr.-Ing. Friedemann Laue won third prize in the IEEE ComSoc Four‑Minute‑Thesis (4MT) competition at IEEE ICC 2026. After advancing from the first round, he was one of 20 finalists invited to present his PhD research to a non‑specialist audience in just four minutes. Competitors were judged on comprehension and content as well…Read more
Maximilian Schäfer Elected to Board of Die Junge Akademie
Maximilian Schäfer has been elected to the Board of Die Junge Akademie for the 2026/2027 term. The new Board began its one-year term of office on 28 June 2026, with the handover taking place during the academy’s annual celebration in Berlin. Die Junge Akademie, founded in 2000 as the world’s first academy for outstanding young…Read more
Master Thesis — Optical Wireless Integrated Sensing and Communications with Single Photon Avalanche Photodiode-Array
Background and motivation: Optical wireless integrated sensing and communication (O-ISAC) is a promising technology for future indoor wireless networks, offering spectrum efficiency, high spatial resolution, and inherent physical-layer security. By reusing the same optical waveform and hardware, O-ISAC systems can jointly support high-rate data transmission and environmental sensing. However, sensing performance is strongly limited by…Read more