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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.

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Awards

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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