Institute for Theoretical Information Technology

Awards at TI, the Institute for Theoretical Information Technology

14 September 2019	Dr. Omid Taghizadeh was given the Friedrich-Wilhelm award of RWTH Aachen University for his outstanding thesis "Resource Allocation for Full-Duplex Multiple-Antenna Communication Systems".
09 November 2018	The paper "A Compressed Sampling for Spherical Near-Field Measurements" co-authored by Cosme Culotta-López, Arya Bangun, Arash Behboodi, Dirk Heberling and Rudolf Mathar received the 2nd best student paper award at the 40th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA 2018).
04 November 2018	Cosme Culotta-Lopez, Dirk heberling, Arya Bangun, Arash behboodi and Rudolf Mathar received the best technical paper award at the internatioanl conference AMTA 2018 in Williamsburg for their contribution "A Compressed Sampling for Spherical Near-Field Measurements".
29 October 2018	Emilio Balda was the winner of the first prize in the student paper contest at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. He won the prestigious award by the paper "On Generation of Adversarial Examples Using Convex Programming", co-authored by Arash Behboodi and Rudolf Mathar.
20 Juni 2018	J. A. L. Calvo and R. Mathar received the best paper award for their contribution "Connected Vehicles Coordination: A Coalitional Game-Theory Approach" at the 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
22 November 2017	Dr.-Ing. Georg Böcherer was awarded the highly recognized Johann-Philipp-Reis-Preis for his work "Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping". Foundations were laid in his doctoral thesis at TI on "Capacity-Achieving Probabilistic Shaping for Noisy and Noiseless Channels".
25 October 2017	Dr. Gholamreza Alirezaei received the prestigious Vodafone prize for his contribution to sensor networks.
13 October 2017	J. A. L. Calvo, G. Alirezaei and R. Mathar received the best paper award for their contribution "Wireless Powering of Drone-Based MANETs for Disaster Zones" at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE'17) in Montréal, Canada.
12 October 2017	Yulin Hu, M. C. Gursoy and A. Schmeink receive the PIMRC 2017 Best Paper Award for their contribution “Efficient Transmission Schemes for Low-Latency Networks: NOMA vs.Relaying”.
30 August 2017	Yulin Hu, Christopher Schnelling, Yassine Amraue and Anke Schmeink received the ISWCS 2017 Best Paper Award Track I for their contribution “Finite Blocklength Performance of a Multi-Relay Network with Best Single Relay Selection”.
9 December 2016	Alper Tokel, Gholamreza Alirezaei and Rudolf Mathar received the Best Paper Award for their contribution "Integrated Network Design for Measurement and Communication Infrastructures in Smart Grids" to the 26th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2016) in Dunedin, New Zealand.
7 July 2016	Martijn Arts and Rudolf Mathar receive the best paper award of The Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2016) for their contribution "Performance Limits of Cooperative Eigenvalue-Based Spectrum Sensing Under Noise Calibration Uncertainty".
2 December 2015	Gholamreza Alirezaei received the Friedrich-Wilhelm Award of RWTH Aachen for his outstanding work "Optimizing Power Allocation in Sensor Networks with Application in Target Classification".
1 August 2015	Gholamreza Alirezaei, Michael Reyer and Rudolf Mathar win the ITG award 2015 for their paper "Optimum Power Allocation in Sensor Networks for Passive Radar Applications". The certificate will be presented on the 4th of November in Berlin.
28 May 2014	Jose Angel Leon Calvo, Xiang Xu and Florian Schröder received a Best Paper Award for their paper "Investigation on Mobile Radio Propagation Channel Models based on Measurement Data" at the 18th International Student Conference on Electrical Engineering (POSTER 2014).
21 May 2014	Hanzhi Zhang awarded the Springorum-Denkmünze for his outstanding Master of Science.
8 May 2014	M. Sc. Marius Cordts receives the EW-Eurodrive Award for his Master thesis on "Investigating Lateral Information Processing in the Olfactory System Using Optimization Theory".
28 November 2013	Melanie Neunerdt, Michael Reyer and Rudolf Mathar received the Third Best Paper Award for their paper A POS Tagger for Social Media Texts trained on Web Comments at the 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI'13). The award was presented by Dr. Alexander Gelbukh.
21 November 2013	Gholamreza Alirezaei and Rudolf Mathar received the Best Paper Award for their paper Optimum Power Allocation for Sensor Networks that Perform Object Classification at the IEEE Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC'13).
9 November 2013	Gholamreza Alirezaei, Rudolf Mathar and Pouya Ghofrani received the Best Paper Award for their paper Power Optimization in Sensor Networks for Passive Radar Applications at the Wireless Sensor Systems Workshop (WSSW'13), co-located with IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE'13).
26 February 2013	On the occasion of the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona the Institute for Theoretical Information Technology (TI) receives the "HUAWEI Proactive Contribution Award". The contributions of TI to the joint research project "Self-Organization for 4G Multi-Tier Networks" are honored by this award. Dr. Jianjun Wu, the director of HUAWEI's European Research Center presented Rudolf Mathar and Alexander Engels with the award.
25 November 2011	Meik Dörpinghaus is awarded the Friedrich-Wilhelm Preis of RWTH Aachen for his outstanding PhD thesis.
10 November 2011	Georg Böcherer, Fabian Altenbach, Martina Malsbender, and Rudolf Mathar won the Best Paper Award for their paper Writing on the Facade of RWTH ICT Cubes: Cost Constrained Geometric Huffman Coding at the ISWCS 2011. M. Malsbender is working for kadawittfeldarchitektur.
19 September 2011	Milan Zivkovic, Johannes Schmitz and Rudolf Mathar won the Best Technical Presentation Award for their SDR demonstrator on Acquisition and Identification of OFDM Signals using Cyclostationary Signatures at the WINCOOL demo competition accompanying the WINTECH workshop2011 in Las Vegas.
12 September 2011	The paper Joint BS Selection and Subcarrier Assignment for Multicell Heterogeneous OFDM Unicasting by Chunhui Liu, Peng Wang, Anke Schmeink and Rudolf Mathar won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE conference PIMRC 2011 in Toronto.
22 March 2011	Rudolf Mathar was elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts.
30 October 2009	As the first recipient ever, Anke Schmeink is awarded the highly endowed Helene-Lange-Award for young female scientists at the University of Oldenburg.
21 September 2009	Milan Zivkovic, Dominik Auras and Rudolf Mathar receive the second prize in the WinCool demonstration contest at The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH 2009), co-located with Mobicom 2009, for their research demonstrator entitled "A reconfigurable framework for adaptive OFDM transmission".
14 January 2009	Anke Schmeink is affiliated with the Junge Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts.
10 December 2008	The best paper award of the Australasian Telecommunciation Networks and Applications Conference 2008 goes to Virgilio Rodriguez, Rudolf Mathar and Anke Schmeink.
28 November 2008	Daniel Catrein receives the Gertraude Holste Award of RWTH Aachen University for his outstanding PhD thesis.
8 December 2007	The E-Plus Dissertation Award is given to Anke Schmeink.
15 June 2006	Anke Schmeink receives the Vodafone Young Researcher Award.
7 June 2002	Rudolf Mathar is awarded the prestigious Vodafone Innovation Award.
3 July 1997	Rudolf Mathar receives the OSTIV Diploma Award.