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

2022

Rainbow Differential PrivacyZhou, Z., Günlü, O., D'Oliveira, R. G., Médard, M., Sadeghi, P. & Schaefer, R. F., 2022, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 614-619, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Secure Active and Passive Beamforming in IRS-Aided MIMO SystemsAsaad, S., Wu, Y., Bereyhi, A., Muller, R. R., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 17, p. 1300-1315, 16 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Secure and Private Source Coding with Private Key and Decoder Side InformationGunlu, O., Schaefer, R. F., Boche, H. & Poor, H. V., 2022, 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 226-231, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Secure Joint Communication and SensingGünlü, O., Bloch, M., Schaefer, R. F. & Yener, A., 2022, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 844-849, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Trustworthiness Verification and Integrity Testing for Wireless Communication SystemsBoche, H., Schaefer, R. F., Poor, H. V. & Fettweis, G. P., 2022, ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 4830-4835, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution

2021

Semantic Security for Indoor THz-Wireless CommunicationSchulz, R., Günlü, O., Elschner, R., Schaefer, R. F., Schmidt-Langhorst, C., Schubert, C. & Fischer, R. F., 6 Sep 2021, 2021 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, ISWCS 2021. VDE Verlag, Berlin [u. a.], p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Securing Massive MIMO Systems: Secrecy for Free with Low-Complexity ArchitecturesBereyhi, A., Asaad, S., Muller, R. R., Schaefer, R. F., Fischer, G. & Poor, H. V., Sep 2021, In: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 20, 9, p. 5831-5845, 15 p., 9399244Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Differential privacy for eye tracking with temporal correlationsBozkir, E., Gunlu, O., Fuhl, W., Schaefer, R. F. & Kasneci, E., Aug 2021, In: PloS one. 16, 8, e0255979Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Detectability of Denial-of-Service Attacks on Arbitrarily Varying Classical-Quantum ChannelsBoche, H., Cai, M., Poor, H. V. & Schaefer, R. F., 12 Jul 2021, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2021 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 912-917, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Doubly-Exponential Identification via Channels: Code Constructions and BoundsGunlu, O., Kliewer, J., Schaefer, R. F. & Sidorenko, V., 12 Jul 2021, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2021 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1147-1152, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Secure Multi-Function Computation with Private Remote SourcesGunlu, O., Bloch, M. & Schaefer, R. F., 12 Jul 2021, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2021 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1403-1408, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Algorithmic Detection of Adversarial Attacks on Message Transmission and ACK/NACK FeedbackBoche, H., Schaefer, R. F. & Vincent Poor, H., Jun 2021, ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
On the Algorithmic Solvability of Channel Dependent Classification Problems in Communication SystemsBoche, H., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., Jun 2021, In: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 29, 3, p. 1155-1168, 14 p., 9374798Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Reinforce Security: A Model-Free Approach towards Secure Wiretap CodingFritschek, R., Schaefer, R. F. & Wunder, G., Jun 2021, ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Turing Meets Shannon: Algorithmic Constructability of Capacity-Achieving CodesBoche, H., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., Jun 2021, ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
An Overview of Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy: Metrics, limits and applicationsBloch, M., Günlü, O., Yener, A., Oggier, F., Poor, H. V., Sankar, L. & Schaefer, R. F., Mar 2021, In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. 2, 1, p. 5-22, 18 p., 9380147Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
Controllable Key Agreement with Correlated NoiseGünlü, O. & Schaefer, R. F., Mar 2021, In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. 2, 1, p. 82-94, 13 p., 9335630Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
EditorialPoor, H. V., Bloch, M., Günlü, O., Schaefer, R. F., Oggier, F., Sankar, L. & Yener, A., Mar 2021, In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. 2, 1, p. 3-4, 2 p., 9380146Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Editorial (Lead article)
6G and the Post-Shannon TheoryCabrera, J. A., Boche, H., Deppe, C., Schaefer, R. F., Scheunert, C. & Fitzek, F. H., 1 Jan 2021, Shaping Future 6G Networks: Needs, Impacts, and Technologies. Bertin, E., Crespi, N. & Magedanz, T. (eds.). Wiley-VHCA, p. 271-294, 24 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report
An Optimality Summary: Secret Key Agreement with Physical Unclonable FunctionsGünlü, O. & Schaefer, R. F., Jan 2021, In: Entropy. 23, 1, p. 1-23, 23 p., 16Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
A Reverse Jensen Inequality Result with Application to Mutual Information EstimationWunder, G., Gros, B., Fritschek, R. & Schaefer, R. F., 2021, 2021 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW 2021 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Communication over Block Fading Channels – An Algorithmic Perspective on Optimal Transmission SchemesBoche, H., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 2021, ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). p. 4750-4754, 5 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Federated Learning with Local Differential Privacy: Trade-Offs between Privacy, Utility, and CommunicationKim, M., Günlü, O. & Schaefer, R. F., 2021, ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). p. 2650-2654, 5 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Joint Active and Passive Secure Precoding in IRS-Aided MIMO SystemsAsaad, S., Wu, Y., Bereyhi, A., Muller, R. R., Schaefer, R. F. & Poor, H. V., 2021, 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
Multiple Noisy Private Remote Source Observations for Secure Function ComputationGunlu, O., Bloch, M. & Schaefer, R. F., 2021, 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2021. Matthews, M. B. (ed.). IEEE Computer Society, p. 690-697, 8 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution