Skills

The following list provides an overview of the core competencies of the Institute of Communications Engineering:

• Semantic and goal-oriented communication for distributed function computation

• Information-theoretic privacy and security

• Coding theory (e.g., reliable/robust/secure/stealthy/covert/resilient compression, communication, and storage)

• Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for 6G

• Physical layer security (PLS)

• Design of neural error correction codes (ECC) for communication systems

• Energy- and hardware-efficient AIoT and Edge-AI algorithms for edge learning

• Secure multi-antenna (MIMO) wireless and terahertz (THz) communication

• Doubly-exponential identification over channels
  (e.g., sensor/watermark identification in post-Shannon communication systems)

• Federated learning (FL) with information-theoretic and differential privacy guarantees

• Biometric secret systems and physically unclonable functions (PUFs)

• Differential privacy (DP) for correlated data
  (e.g., eye-tracking for immersive XR experiences in the Metaverse)

• Over-the-air (OtA) coordination, cooperation, and computation

• Distributed secure and private (multi-party) multi-function computation

• Information bottleneck method

• Statistical signal processing for common secret key generation

• Post-quantum cryptography (PQC)

• Algorithm design for quantum key distribution (QKD)

• (Conditional) mutual information estimation using neural networks

The Institute of Communications Engineering has also a variety of measurement equipment and development tools at hand to realize sophisticated projects:

• Laboratory Equipment
• Software and Development Tools