Teaching & Supervision

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Ph.D./M.Sc./B.Sc.)

WiSe 2024  Lecturer & Examiner for the M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at LiU: “Cryptology” (two separate courses with similar content, one in-presence and one online).

Wise 2023  Lecturer & Examiner for the Ph.D. level 9 ECTS course at LiU: "Information Theory".

WiSe 2023  Lecturer & Examiner for the M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at LiU: “Cryptology” (two separate courses with similar content, one in-presence and one online).

WiSe 2022  Guest Lecturer for the M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at LiU: “Computer Security”.

SuSe 2022  Lecturer/Dozent for the B.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at the University of Siegen: “Digital Communication Technology II” (Online).

WiSe 2021  Guest Lecturer/Dozent for the Ph.D./M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at the University of Siegen: “Communication and Information Security I / Cryptographic Methods and Applications I” (Online).

WiSe 2020  Lecturer/Dozent for the Ph.D./M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at TUB: “Applications of the Probabilistic Method” (Online).

SuSe 2020  Lecturer/Dozent for the Ph.D./M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at TUB: “Applications of the Probabilistic Method” (postponed to the next semester due to the Covid-19 pandemic).

WiSe 2019/20  Lecturer/Dozent for the Ph.D./M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at TUB: “Security and Privacy of Information Systems”.

SuSe 2019  Adjunct Lecturer/Dozent for the B.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at TUM-Asia & Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore: “Digital Communications 101”.

SuSe 2014/15/16/17/18 Teaching Assistant for the M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at TUM: “Wireless Communications Laboratory”.

WiSe 2014/15/16/17/18 Teaching Assistant for the M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at TUM: “Communications Laboratory”.

SuSe 2014/15/16/17  Teaching Assistant for the Ph.D./M.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at TUM: “Advanced Topics in Communications Engineering” together with

o   Prof. Dr. Amin Gohari (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) on “The Probabilistic Method”, 2017

o   Prof. Dr. Mari Kobayashi (CentraleSupélec, France) on “MIMO-OFDM Systems”, 2016

o   Prof. Dr. Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) on “Information Theoretic Security and Resolvability”, 2015

o   Prof. Dr. Andrew Thangaraj (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) on “Code Constructions for Information Theoretic Security”, 2014.

SuSe 2014  Lecturer for the B.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at TUM: “Basic Laboratory on Telecommunications”.

SuSe 2014  Teaching Assistant for the M.Sc./B.Sc. level 6 ECTS course at the summer academy Ferienakademie in Sarntal, Italy on “Real-time Receiver Design for Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) Standard via Software-Defined Radio (SDR)” together with Profs. Gerhard Kramer (TUM), Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart), and Ralf Müller (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).

SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE (Postdoc/Ph.D./M.Sc./B.Sc.) 

- to be added more soon

• Main Supervisor of Ph.D. student Gustaf Åhlgren who works on “Information Theoretic Security” and co-supervised by Prof. Guilherme Xavier (Linköping University, Sweden) (01/24 - 12/28).

• Co-Supervisor of Ph.D. student Andrew Lonnstrom who works on “Machine Learning” and is supervised by Prof. Rafael F. Schaefer (TU Dresden, Germany) (12/2023 - 11/2028).

• Main Supervisor of Master's student Didrik Bergström who works on “Deep Learning for Cryptographic Security” (Linköping University, Sweden) 

(01/2024 - 06/2024).

• Main Supervisor of Postdoctoral research fellow Dr. Shanuja Sasi who works on “Distributed Computing” (Linköping University, Sweden) (10/23 - 09/25).

• Co-Supervisor of Ph.D. student Truman Welling who works on “Information Theoretic Security for Integrated Sensing and Communication” and is supervised by Prof. Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA) (09/23 - 08/27).

• Co-Supervisor of Ph.D. student Daniel Seifert who works on “Machine Learning for Communications” and is supervised by Prof. Rafael F. Schaefer (TU Dresden, Germany) (06/23 - 05/28).

• Co-Supervisor of Master's student Yuchen Liu who works on “Private and Fair Federated Learning” and is supervised by Prof. Youlong Wu (ShanghaiTech, China) (05/2023 - 12/2025).

• Main Supervisor of Master’s thesis (30 ECTS) student Ziqi Zhou (who achieved the highest grade in my lecture “Applications of the Probabilistic Method”) together with Prof. Muriel Médard (M.I.T., USA), Prof. Rafael G. L. D’Oliveira (Clemson, USA), Prof. Parastoo Sadeghi (Australian National University, Australia), and Prof. Rafael F. Schaefer on “Graph-theoretic Approaches to Differential Privacy – Rainbow Differential Privacy” at TUB, University of Siegen, M.I.T., and Australian National University (04/2021 – 10/2022).

• Co-supervisor of Ph.D. student Muah Kim together with Prof. Rafael F. Schaefer on “Information Theoretic and Differential Privacy for (Federated) Learning” at TUB and University of Siegen (12/2019 – 09/2022).

• Main Supervisor of 5 Master’s theses (each 30 ECTS) at TUM (2015 - 2018), jointly with 

o   Nokia Bell Labs (on wireless communication theory)

o   Daimler AG (on estimation theory)

o   Rohde & Schwarz (on communication theory)

o   AED Engineering (on wireless communication theory)

               and with the student names, thesis titles, and years of defense 

1) Ugur Baran Elmali, “Intra-cell Mobility in 5G Multi-beam Systems Operating at High Carrier Frequency”, 2018.

2) Mohamed Mezghani, “Estimation of Signal Phases and Timing Information based on Statistical Properties of GPS-tracks”, 2018.

3) Julian Leyh, “Transmitter Impairment Measurement in the Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast Standard”, 2017.

4) Stefan Thiel, “Analysis of AM Demodulation for Speech-based Airborne Communications Under Multipath Propagation”, 2015.

5) Tobias Fülle, “Preamble Detection on NC-OFDM for Dynamic Synchronization”, 2015.

• Main Supervisor of 4 Bachelor’s theses (each 12 ECTS) at TUM on statistical signal processing and implementation of security and privacy mechanisms (2015 - 2018) with the student names, thesis titles, and years of defense

1) Tijani Aziz Feki, “Optimized Transform Coding for Physical Unclonable Functions”, 2018.

2) Mohamed Ibn Haj Hmida, “Mapping Optimization for Key Generation from Correlated Physical Outputs”, 2017.

3) Fares Charfi, “Transform Implementation for Secret-key Storage with Physical Identifiers”, 2017.

4) Anes Belkacem, “Reliability Analysis for Secret-key Binding for Physical Identifiers”, 2016.

• Main Supervisor of 5 Long-term Internships (each 12 ECTS) at TUM on satellite communications and code constructions for security and privacy (2015 - 2018).

• Main Supervisor of 4 Hauptseminar and Communication-theory Seminar topics (each 5 ECTS) at TUM on information-theoretic privacy and security 

(2015 - 2018).