Recent News:

• December 2024: Our papers Self-Duplicating Random Walks for Resilient Decentralized Learning on Graphs and Scalable and Reliable Over-the-Air Federated Edge Learning were presented at GLOBECOM 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa.

• Our paper Maximal-Capacity Discrete Memoryless Channel Identification was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 71, Issue 2.

• November 2024: Our paper Byzantine-Resilient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning Without Privacy Compromises was presented at Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2024 in Shenzhen, China.

• October 2024: Second-time re-elected as doctoral representative for the Department of Computer Engineering at Technical University of Munich.

Short Biography:

• November 2024: Research Stay with Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

• February  - May 2023: Three-Months Research Stay with Prof. Dr. Deniz Gündüz at Imperial College London, Great Britain.

• Since January 2022: Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Communications Engineering under supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Antonia Wachter-Zeh

• February 2022: Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Munich with high distinction (final grade: 1.0)

• February 2020: Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Applied Sciences with high distinction (final grade: 1.0)

• January 2019: Successfully completed professional education as electronics technician for industrial systems with 99 of 100 reachable points

• September 2015 - February 2020: Dual Studies (bachelors combined with apprenticeship and multiple temporary engineering positions) at Hilti AG, Kaufering, Germany

Research Interests:

• Distributed Machine Learning

• Efficiency in distributed matrix multiplication and (stochastic) gradient descent

• Privacy preserving coded distributed computing and federated learning

• Security in decentralized learning

• Channel capacity estimation and optimization

Awards:

• March 2023: DAAD Scholarship for Research Stay at Imperial College London.

• November 2020: VDE Award Bavaria 2020.

• September 2019: Best vocational qualification 2019 - Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) of Munich and Upper Bavaria.

• March 2019 - December 2021: Scholarship recipient of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German Academic Scholarship Foundation).

• November 2018: Participant at the gP Primus promotion program of the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg.