Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rafael F. Schaefer

Head of Chair

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Biography

Rafael F. Schaefer (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2007, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität München, Germany, in 2012. Since 2022, he is a Professor and the Head of the Chair of Information Theory and Machine Learning, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Since 2023, he is also leading the Wireless Connectivity and Sensing Group at the Barkhausen Institut, Dresden, Germany. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Princeton University. From 2015 to 2020, he was an Assistant Professor with the Technische Universität Berlin. From 2021 to 2022, he was a Professor with the Universität Siegen. 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 Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award in 2025 and Best Paper Awards from the German Information Technology Society (ITG-Preis) in 2016 and the IEEE Global Communications Conference in 2023.

Publications (FIS)

163 Entries

2024

Short-Length Code Designs for Integrated Sensing and Communications using Deep LearningKim, M., Jahani Nezhad , T., Li, S., Schaefer, R. F. & Caire, G., 2024, ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. Valenti, M., Reed, D. & Torres, M. (eds.).p. 3536-3541, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
WSA 2024 CommentarySchaefer, R. F. & Fettweis, G., 2024, WSA 2024 - Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Smart Antennas. p. IIIElectronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Other chapter contribution

2023

Virtual-Twin Technologies in NetworkingBock, Y. N., Boche, H., Schaefer, R. F., Fitzek, F. H. & Poor, H. V., 1 Nov 2023, In: IEEE Communications Magazine. 61, 11, p. 136-141, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Algorithmic Computability and Approximability of Capacity-Achieving Input DistributionsBoche, H., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 1 Sep 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 69, 9, p. 5449-5462, 14 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Quality of Security Guarantees for and with Physical Unclonable Functions and Biometric Secrecy SystemsGünlü, O., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 21 Aug 2023, In: Entropy. 25 (2023), 8, 15 p., 1243Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Channel Hardening of IRS-Aided Multi-Antenna Systems: How Should IRSs Scale?Bereyhi, A., Asaad, S., Ouyang, C., Muller, R. R., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 1 Aug 2023, In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 41, 8, p. 2321-2335, 15 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Trade Reliability for Security: Leakage-Failure Probability Minimization for Machine-Type Communications in URLLCZhu, Y., Yuan, X., Hu, Y., Schaefer, R. F. & Schmeink, A., Jul 2023, In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 41, 7, p. 2123-2137, 15 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Information Theoretic Methods for Future Communication SystemsGünlü, O., Schaefer, R. F., Boche, H. & Poor, H. V., 21 Feb 2023, In: Entropy. 25, 3, 392Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Editorial (Lead article)
Algorithmic Computability of the Capacity of Additive Colored Gaussian Noise ChannelsBoche, H., Grigorescu, A., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 2023, GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 4375-4380, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
A Secure and Resilient 6G Architecture Vision of the German Flagship Project 6G-ANNAHoffmann, M., Kunzmann, G., Dudda, T., Irmer, R., Jukan, A., MacHer, G., Ahmad, A. & 25 others, 2023, In: IEEE access. 11, p. 102643-102660, 18 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Concatenated Classic and Neural (CCN) Codes: ConcatenatedAEGünlü, O., Fritschek, R. & Schaefer, R. F., 2023, 2023 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2023 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
How to Trade Reliability for Security in Machine-Type Communications: Leakage-Failure Probability MinimizationZhu, Y., Yuan, X., Hu, Y., Schaefer, R. F. & Schmeink, A., 2023, ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications: Sustainable Communications for Renaissance. Zorzi, M., Tao, M. & Saad, W. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 4353-4359, 7 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Learning End-to-End Channel Coding with Diffusion ModelsKim, M., Fritschek, R. & Schaefer, R. F., 2023, The proceedings of the 26th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas and 13th Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding.. Die Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) im Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V ITG, p. 208-213, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Secure and Private Distributed Source Coding With Private Keys and Decoder Side InformationGunlu, O., Schaefer, R. F., Boche, H. & Poor, H. V., 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 18, p. 3803-3816, 14 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Secure Integrated Sensing and CommunicationGunlu, O., Bloch, M. R., Schaefer, R. F. & Yener, A., 2023, In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. 4, p. 40-53, 14 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication for Binary Input Additive White Gaussian Noise ChannelsGunlu, O., Bloch, M., Schaefer, R. F. & Yener, A., 2023, 2023 IEEE 3rd International Symposium on Joint Communications and Sensing, JC and S 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution

2022

Private Key and Decoder Side Information for Secure and Private Source Coding †Günlü, O., Schaefer, R. F., Boche, H. & Poor, H. V., Dec 2022, In: Entropy. 24, 12, 1716Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Private Remote Sources for Secure Multi-Function ComputationGunlu, O., Bloch, M. & Schaefer, R. F., 1 Oct 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68, 10, p. 6826-6841, 16 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Turing Meets Shannon: On the Algorithmic Construction of Channel-Aware CodesBoche, H., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 1 Apr 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Communications. 70, 4, p. 2256-2267, 12 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Code Constructions and Bounds for Identification via ChannelsGunlu, O., Kliewer, J., Schaefer, R. F. & Sidorenko, V., 1 Mar 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Communications. 70, 3, p. 1486-1496, 11 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Privacy, Secrecy, and Storage with Nested Randomized Polar Subcode ConstructionsGunlu, O., Trifonov, P., Kim, M., Schaefer, R. F. & Sidorenko, V., 1 Jan 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Communications. 70, 1, p. 514-525, 12 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Capacity-Achieving Input Distributions: Algorithmic Computability and ApproximabilityBoche, H., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 2022, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 2774-2779, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Capacity of Finite State Channels with Feedback: Algorithmic and Optimization Theoretic PropertiesGrigorescu, A., Boche, H., Schaefer, R. F. & Vincent Poor, H., 2022, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 498-503, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Effects of Quantization on Federated Learning with Local Differential PrivacyKim, M., Günlü, O. & Schaefer, R. F., 2022, GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference. p. 921-926, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
How Should IRSs Scale to Harden Multi-Antenna Channels?Bereyhi, A., Asaad, S., Ouyang, C., Muller, R. R., Schaefer, R. F. & Vincent Poor, H., 2022, 2022 IEEE 12th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, SAM 2022. IEEE Computer Society, p. 276-280, 5 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution