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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Falko Dressler

Bachelor, Master, and PhD Students

PhD Students

  • Berk Buzcu, working on intelligence in 6G networks since 2025
  • Lisa Y. Debus, working on molecular communication since 2024
  • Christos Laskos, working on joint communication and sensing since 2024
  • Tehmina Bibi, working on localization and tracking since 2023
  • Ziqi Zhou, working on virtualized edge computing since 2023
  • Osman Tugay Basaran, working on explainable AI and ORAN since 2023
  • Laura Finarelli, working on dynamic mobile networks since 2023
  • Jamshid Bacha, working on reinforcement learning for WiFi since 2023
  • Marie-Christin H. Oczko, working on vulnerable road users since 2023
  • Sascha Rösler, working on IoT and localization since 2022
  • Atefeh Rezaei, working on resilient wireless communications since 2022
  • Joana Angjo, working on reflective intelligent surfaces since 2022
  • Mohammad Bariq Khan, working on federated learning as a service since 2022
  • Mengfan Wu, working on machine leaning for communication networks since 2021
  • Sigrid Dimce, working on channel modeling and channel prediction since 2020
  • Julian Heinovski, working on cooperative driving since 2018

Graduated PhD Students

Advised / Mentored PhD Students

  1. Youming Tao, "Trustworthy Collaborative Machine Learning for Edge AI: Privacy, Unlearning, and Robustness," PhD Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), TU Berlin (TUB), October 2025. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler, Isabel Wagner and Pavel Laskov) [BibTeX, More details]
  2. Dominik S. Buse, "Towards Holistic Real-time Simulation of Cooperative Vehicles," PhD Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), TU Berlin (TUB), May 2023. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler, Christoph Sommer, Thomas Engel and James Gross) [DOI, BibTeX, More details]
  3. Agon Memedi, "Vehicular Visible Light Communications for Connected Autonomous Driving," PhD Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), TU Berlin (TUB), April 2023. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler, Hsin-Mu Tsai, Renato Lo Cigno and Volker Jungnickel) [DOI, BibTeX, More details]
  4. Sven Schoenberg, "Trip Planning for Electric Vehicles," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), January 2023. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler and Claudio Ettore Casetti) [BibTeX, More details]
  5. Claas Tebruegge, "Towards Feasible Vehicular Visible Light Communication," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), April 2022. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler and Sinem Coleri Ergen) [BibTeX, More details]
  6. Elnaz Alizadeh Jarchlo, "Wireless Handover Solutions in Vehicular Visible Light Communications," PhD Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), TU Berlin (TUB), August 2021. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler, Giuseppe Caire and Mohammad Ali Khalighi) [DOI, BibTeX, More details]
  7. Muhammad Sohaib Amjad, "Towards Low Latency and Bandwidth Efficient Communication in Wireless Systems," PhD Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), TU Berlin (TUB), May 2021. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler, Robert Weigel and Hsin-Mu Tsai) [DOI, BibTeX, More details]
  8. Johannes Blobel, "Energy Efficient Communications using Wake-Up Receivers," PhD Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), TU Berlin (TUB), March 2021. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler, Jiannong Cao and Archan Misra) [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  9. Felix Erlacher, "Efficient Intrusion Detection in High-Speed Networks," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), June 2019. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referee: Felix C. Freiling) [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  10. Florian Hagenauer, "An Architecture for Connected Cars Providing Virtual Infrastructure and Services," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), June 2019. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler and Marco Fiore) [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  11. Muhammad Nabeel, "Reliable Communication in Distributed Sensor Networks," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), April 2019. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler and Robert Weigel) [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  12. Florian Klingler, "Efficient Wireless Communication in Vehicular Networks," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), September 2018. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler, Jiannong Cao and Lars Wolf) [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  13. Bastian Bloessl, "A Physical Layer Experimentation Framework for Automotive WLAN," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University (UPB), June 2018. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler, Matthias Hollick and Renato Lo Cigno) [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  14. Stefan Joerer, "Improving Intersection Safety with Inter-Vehicle Communication," PhD Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, July 2016. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler and Francesca Cuomo) [BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  15. Michele Segata, "Safe and Efficient Communication Protocols for Platooning Control," PhD Thesis, Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, February 2016. (Advisors: Falko Dressler and Renato Lo Cigno; Referees: Falko Dressler, Renato Lo Cigno and Claudio Ettore Casetti) [BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  16. Serkan Ayaz, "Mobility and Radio Resource Management in Future Aeronautical Mobile Networks," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), February 2013. (Advisors: Reinhard German and Falko Dressler; Referees: Reinhard German, Falko Dressler and Wolfgang Gerstacker) [BibTeX, More details]
  17. Juergen Eckert, "Autonomous Localization Framework for Sensor and Actor Networks," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), December 2012. (Advisors: Reinhard German and Falko Dressler; Referees: Reinhard German, Falko Dressler and Hannes Frey) [BibTeX, More details]
  18. Tobias Limmer, "Efficient Network Monitoring for Attack Detection," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), June 2011. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler and Felix C. Freiling) [BibTeX, More details]
  19. Christoph Sommer, "Car-to-X Communication in Heterogeneous Environments," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), June 2011. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler and Ozan K. Tonguz) [BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  20. Isabel Dietrich, "Syntony: A Framework for UML-Based Simulation, Analysis, and Test," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), July 2010. (Advisors: Reinhard German and Falko Dressler; Referees: Reinhard German and Klaus Meyer-Wegener) [BibTeX, More details]
  21. Abdalkarim Awad, "Efficient Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks using Peer-to-Peer Techniques," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), November 2009. (Advisor: Falko Dressler; Referees: Falko Dressler and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat) [BibTeX, More details]
  22. Thomas Halva Labella, "Division of Labour in Groups of Robots," PhD Thesis, Faculte des Sciences Appliquees, Université Libre de Bruxelles, March 2007. (Advisors: Marco Dorigo and Falko Dressler) [BibTeX, More details]

Bachelor/Master Students

Last modified: 2023-10-07