Here, we showcase the awards received by 6G-life researchers, highlighting their exceptional contributions to advancing knowledge and innovation in communication systems. From Best Paper and Best Poster to Best Presentation and Best Demonstration Awards, these recognitions underscore the impact and excellence of our team’s work in shaping the future of communication technologies.
Best Student Paper Award
Rodday, Niels
Exploring the Benefit of Path Plausibility Algorithms in BGP
IEEE NOMS 2024, 2024
Best student paper award
Prado, Anna
Mobility Management for Computation-Intensive Tasks in Cellular Networks with SD-RAN
IEEE/IFIP CNSM 2024, 2024
Best Paper Award
Riaz, Rabia
Investigation of Modulation Bandwidth in High-Frequency VCOs Fabricated in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS Technology
IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems, 2024
Best Paper Award
Pohle, Dennis
Secret Key Generation in Multi-Mode Fiber Channels: Channel Measurements and Achievable Rates
IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024
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Best Paper Award
Turan, Nurettin
Wireless Channel Prediction via Gaussian Mixture Models
2024 27th International Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), 2024
Best Paper Award
Janardhanan, Shakthivelu
Open Disaggregated Network Component (ODNC): Network Sovereignty at the Subcomponent Level
IEEE FNWF 2024, 2024
Best Paper Award
Janardhanan, Shakthivelu
PyRBD: An Open-Source Reliability Block Diagram Evaluation Tool
IEEE CQR 2024, 2024
Best Student Paper award
Xu, Xin
A 60 GHz Up-Conversion Mixer in 22 nm FD-SOI CMOS with Back-Gate Mode Switching
IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT), 2023
Best student paper award
Xu, Xin
Two Wilkinson-Power-Combiners designed with Transmission Lines and Lumped Elements in 22 nm FD-SOI CMOS
2023 IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (RADIO), 2023
Best-Paper Award
Andrei, Vlad
Sensing-Assisted Receivers for Resilient-By-Design 6G MU-MIMO Uplink
2023 IEEE Symposium on Joint Communication and Sensing, 2023
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Best Paper Award
Grigorescu, Andrea
Algorithmic Computability of the Capacity of Additive Colored Gaussian Noise Channels
IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2023
Best Paper Award
Liu, Peng
Non-rigid Point Cloud Registration for Middle Ear Diagnostics with Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography
IPCAI 2023: International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, 2023
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Best Paper Award
Jano, Alba
nextGSIM: Towards Simulating Network Resource Management for Beyond 5G Networks
IEEE Future Networks, 2023
Best Paper Award
Janardhanan, Shakthivelu
Zohra: Joint Routing and Manufacturer Assignment Problem
IEEE CQR 2023, 2023
Best Paper Award
Mehmeti, Fidan
Maximizing Network Throughput Using SD-RAN
IEEE CCNC 2023, 2023
Best Paper 1st Runner-Up
Adam, Michael
Bounding Box Disparity: 3D Metrics For Object Detection With Full Degree of Freedom
IEEE International Conference in Image Processing (ICIP), 2022
Best student paper
Rothe, Stefan
Physical layer security for confidential data transmission through multimode fibres
25th Congress of International Commission for Optics and 16th International Conference of Optics Within Life Sciences – ICO-25-OWLS-16, 2022
Best Student Paper Award
Xiong, Mengchen
Robust Depth Estimation in Foggy Environments Combining RGB Images and mmWave Radar
25th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), 2022
Best Student Paper Award
Hofmann, Pit
Testbed-based Receiver Optimization for SISO Molecular Communication Channels
2022 IEEE International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom), 2022
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Best Student Paper Award
Aykurt, Kaan
On the Performance of TCP in Reconfigurable Data Center Networks
IEEE CNSM 2022, 2022
Outstanding Paper Award
Kaynar, Furkan
AR in VR: Augmented Reality Cues in 360-Degree Stereoscopic Telepresence for Remote Collaboration and Maintenance
16th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP), 2022
Best Paper Award
Mehmeti, Fidan
Minimizing Rate Variability with Effective Resource Utilization in 5G Networks
ACM Mobiwac 2021, 2021
Sbalzarini, Ivo
A structure-preserving differentiable metric for morphogenetic dynamics
Best Poster Award
From Images to Knowledge (I2K) Conference, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy, 2024
Jäger, Alex
Successive interference cancellation for optical fiber using discrete constellations
Best Poster Award
IEEE European School of Information Theory, 2024
Venkatesh, Danush
Synthesizing surgical datasets with diffusion models
Best Poster Award
Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML), 2024
Tiedje, Tobias
Stereolithographic process for embedding of electronic components into multi-material flexible and stretchable polymer substrate to reduce stress during stretching
Best Student Presentation Award
2023 IMAPS Symposium, 2023
Kolbinger, Fiona
Artificial Intelligence for context-aware surgical guidance during robot-assisted rectal resection – an exploratory feasibility study
Best Presentation Award
MICCAI 2021: Conference on Clinical Translation of Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (CLINICCAI 2021), 2021
Pohle, Dennis
Surveillance of a Multimode Fiber Network using Deep Learning
2nd best presentation award
OPTO conference 2021 in Wrocław, 2021
Best Student Demo Award
Vlad C. Andrei
A Digital Twinning Platform for Integrated Sensing, Communications and Robotics
2024 IEEE Symposium on Joint Communication and Sensing, 2024
Best Demonstration Award
Rezwan, Sifat
Balancing beyond-Shannon: Demonstration of functional compression using a balancing robot
IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2024
Best Demo Award
Kutsevol, Polina
Experimental Study of Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Networked Control Systems
IEEE SECON 2023, 2023
Best Demonstration Award
Schulz, Jonas
“Anticipatory Hand Glove: Understanding Human Actions for Enhanced Interaction”
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, 2023
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Best Demo Award
Amjad, Saquib
Open-Source Service Management for a Fully Disaggregated Optical Network Simulation
IEEE CNSM 2022, 2022
IEEE Fellow
Kellerer, Wolfgang
IEEE Fellow
IEEE, 2025
IEEE Fellow
Fitzek, Frank
IEEE Fellow
IEEE, 2025
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
Li
An Overview of Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy: Metrics, Limits and Applications
IEEE Information Theory Society, 2025
Award not yet officially announced
Applied Networking Research Prize
Cech, Hendrik
A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance
Internet Research Task Force (conference-independent), 2025
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Ferdinand-Sauerbruch-Research-Prize
Wagner, Martin
Comparative validation of machine learning algorithms for surgical workflow and skill analysis with the HeiChole benchmark
Jahrestagung Berlin-Brandenburgische Gesellschaft für Chirurgie 2024, 2024
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Innovation Prize of the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery
Younis, Rayan
KOALA-Grasp: Entwicklung einer teilautonomen robotischen Assistenz für die laparoskopische Chirurgie im Angesicht zunehmenden Fachkräftemangels
Viszeralmedizin 2024, 2024
Dissertation award of Commerzbank’s Dresden Cultural Foundation
Büschel, Wolfgang
Spatial Interaction for Immersive Mixed-Reality Visualizations
2024
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ITG Preis 2024
Kellerer, Wolfgang
Comparing the Scalability of Communication Networks and Systems
VDE ITG, 2024
Measurement Technique Prize of AHMT
Rothe, Stefan
Harnessing Disorder of Multimode Fibres to Achieve Information Security on the Physical Layer
AHMT, 2024
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Prize for Measurement and Sensor Technology of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation
Sui, Yuan
High-fidelity transmission through multimode fibers using deep learning
2024
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Prize on Digital Technology of BASF
Geng, Wenting
High-dimensional Quantum Information Transmission using Few-mode Fibers
Diploma Thesis, 2024
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SPIE Dennis Gabor Award
Czarske, Jürgen
Diffractive optics for digital holography and related techniques for biomedicine, fiber communication, imaging, information processing, and laser metrology
The international society for optics and photonics (SPIE), 2024
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Student Travel Grant
Wietfeld, Alexander
DBMC-NOMA: Evaluating NOMA for Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication Networks
IEEE ICC, 2024
Studienpreis
Haider, Valentin
Studienpreis der SEW-EURODRIVE Stiftung
SEW-EURODRIVE Stiftung, 2024
VDE ITG Dissertation Prize
Rothe, Stefan
Harnessing Disorder of Multimode Fibres to Achieve Information Security on the Physical Layer
Hauptstadtforum, 2024
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Young Researcher Award
Mohd Saif Shaikh
Effect of device dimensions on the performance metrics of Si:Te PIN planar photodiodes for telecom bands detection at room temperature
European Materials Research Society (EMRS), Fall 2024
2nd Prize in 2024 German Thesis Award by Körber-Stiftung
Rothe, Stefan
Harnessing Disorder of Multimode Fibres to Achieve Information Security on the Physical Layer
2024
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Best Workshop Contribution
Simon, Manuel
Never Miss Twice – Add-On-Miss Table Updates in Software Data Planes
Würzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS’23), 2023
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DGaO Young talent award
Krause, David
Measurement of the transmission matrix of multimode fibers using neural networks and modern digital holography
DGaO, 2023
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Prize for Measurement and Sensor Technology of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation
Rothe, Stefan
Exploiting the interference of multimode fibers to achieve information security on the physical layer
2023
Winner of Challenge
Rivoir, Dominik
PitVis 2023 Challenge: Workflow Recognition in videos of Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery
MICCAI 2023 Endoscopic Vision Challenge EndoVis, 2023
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Young Scientist Award of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation
Rothe, Stefan
Measurement of the transmission matrix of multimode fibers using neural networks and modern digital holography
2023
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DGaO Young Talent Award
Pohle, Dennis
Investigating information security for an optical network using Deep Learning
DGaO, 2022
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Innovation in Haptics Award
Kirchner, Robert
Rendering strategies for plausible affective haptics
IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2022
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Prof. Ralf Kötter Memorial Award
Runge, Constantin
Higher-Order Polar-Coded Modulation for Asymmetric Channels
TUM Master Thesis, 2022
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Theodore-Maiman-Stipendium
Geppert, Anna-Lena
Adaptive Lichtfeldformung mittels Multiplane Light Conversion
Theodore-Maiman-Stipendium 2022 der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Lasertechnik e.V., 2022
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Winner of Challenge
Liu, Peng; Pfeiffer, Micha; Güttner, Bianca
P2ILF 2022 Challenge: Preoperative to intra-operative laparoscopic fusion challenge
MICCAI 2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge EndoVis, 2022
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Faculty Award of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation
Zhang, Qian
Real-time measurement of the transmission matrix of a multimode fiber with a smart detection
2021
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Tactile Internet Technical Committee of IEEE ComSoc
Steinbach, Eckehard
TI TC technical contributions award for distinguished contributions to Haptic Codecs, which is an essential part of the Tactile Internet.
Technical Contribution Award, 2021
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