Title: Prof. Dr.
6G-life Position: Principal Investigator
University: TU Dresden – Chair of Information Theory and Machine Learning
Email: rafael.schaefer@tu-dresden.de
Phone: +49 351 463 32239
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Work Packages involved:
WP1.3 Post-Shannon and algorithms
WP1.5 New radio interface and antennas
WP1.7 Post-quantum cryptography
Work Packages of interest:
WP1.2 Quantum communication
WP1.4 Optical communication
WP1.8 Molecular Communication and Storage
WP2.3 AI, algorithms and digital twin
WP3.4 Joint Communications and Sensing / Localisation
Rafael F. Schaefer (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2007, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Technische Universität München, Germany, in 2012. He is currently a Professor and the Head of the Chair of Information Theory and Machine Learning, Technische Universität Dresden. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Princeton University. From 2015 to 2020, he was an Assistant Professor with Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2021 to 2022, he was also a Professor with Universität Siegen, Germany. Among his publications is the book Information Theoretic Security and Privacy of Information Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He was a recipient of the VDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Award in 2013. He received the Best Paper Award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG-Preis) in 2016. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS.
