Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Over the last year, the MARACAS team has made a number of significant contributions in the form of journal publications and international conference proceedings, invited lectures in international conferences and schools, as well as contributions in the form of organization of international conferences and editorial roles in international IEEE journals. These include 9 high quality journal publications and over 10 international conference proceedings, spanning many areas of communication and information theory as well as signal processing. In particular, these results contribute to the ongoing development of 5G wireless communication systems and also to emerging areas of communications in the form of the smart grid and molecular communications.

Awards

• Samir Perlaza: Visiting Research Collaborator (Honorific Position), Term 2019 - 2020, at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. Annual Renew under evaluation of a Departmental Committee.

• Samir Perlaza: Fellowship of The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters for visiting the School of Energy Systems at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. April, 2019.

• Bayram Akdeniz: 2nd place in the Molecular MIMO Competition at the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop.

• Cyrille Morin: 1st place in the Machine learning challenge at the 6th Training School on Machine and Deep Learning Techniques for (Beyond) 5G Wireless Communication Systems.