Rafael Schaefer
About me
I am a full professor at University of Siegen heading the Chair of Communications Engineering and Security. Before joining University of Siegen, I was a Juniorprofessor at Technische Universität Berlin heading the Information Theory and Applications Group and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in the group of Prof. H. Vincent Poor. In 2012, I received the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität München under the supervision of Prof. Holger Boche.
I am an IEEE Senior member. In 2016, I received the best paper award (Preis der ITG) of the Information Technology Society of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE-ITG). In 2013, I received the VDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize for my work on physical layer security. I am one of the Exemplary Reviewers 2013 for the IEEE Communication Letters. My research interests are in the area of information theory and communication theory; in particular topics related to physical layer security, cyber-physical systems, and wireless communications.
News
I have open positions and look for motivated PhD students and Postdocs to join my group! Please contact me via email if you are interested!
Invited talk at the Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, USA, Feb. 2018: Key Agreement Through Broadcast Channel Measurements
Since June 2017, I am member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications
Invited talk at Institut Mittag-Leffler, Sweden, May 2017: Secure Broadcasting with Independent Secret Keys
I have been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member
I am an Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
I am organizing the Symposium on Control and Information Theoretic Approaches to Privacy and Security at IEEE GlobalSIP ’17, Montreal, Canada, November 2017 (with Aditya Mahajan and Ashish Khisti)
I am a guest editor for the special issue on Information-Theoretic Security for Entropy (with Eduard Jorswieck and Stefano Tomasin)
I received the Best Paper Award 2016 (Literaturpreis der ITG) of the Information Technology Society of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE)
I am organizing the Symposium on Information Theoretic Approaches to Security and Privacy at IEEE GlobalSIP ’16, Greater Washington, D.C., USA, December 2016 (with Holger Boche)
I am organizing the 3rd Workshop on Physical-layer Methods for Wireless Security at IEEE CNS ’16, Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 2016 (with Mario Goldenbaum, H. Vincent Poor, and Holger Boche)
I joined Technische Universität Berlin as a Juniorprofessor in December 2015
Since Dec. 2015, I am a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University (hosted by H. Vincent Poor)
I am organizing the Physical-Layer Security Workshop at IEEE WCNC ’16, Doha, Qatar, April 2016 (with Steven McLaughlin, Hesham El Gamal, Eduard Jorswieck, and Zouheir Rezki)
I am organizing the 2nd Workshop on Physical-layer Methods for Wireless Security at IEEE CNS ’15, Florence, Italy, September 2015 (with H. Vincent Poor and Holger Boche)
I am organizing a special session on Physical Layer Security at Asilomar ’15
I am organizing a special session on Physical Layer Security with an Uncertain Physical Layer at IEEE WIFS ’15 (with H. Vincent Poor)
We are editing a book on Information Theoretic Security and Privacy of Information Sources, to be published by Cambridge University Press (with Holger Boche, Ashish Khisti, and H. Vincent Poor)
Talk at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, Oct. 2015: Broadcast Wiretap Channels: Joint vs Individual Secrecy
I am a keynote speaker at the IEEE ICC Workshop on Wireless Physical Layer Security, London, UK, June 2015
Talk at the Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), La Jolla, USA, Feb. 2015: The Secrecy Capacity of Compound MIMO Gaussian Wiretap Channels
Talk at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, Nov. 2014: Secure Broadcasting of a Common Message with Independent Secret Keys
Talk at NJIT, Apr. 2014: The Secrecy Capacity of Compound MIMO Gaussian Channels
I am one of the Exemplary Reviewers 2013 for the IEEE Communication Letters
I organized a special session on Signal Processing for Cyber-Security and Privacy at IEEE ICASSP ’14 (with Holger Boche)
Invited talk at Second Princeton Workshop on Classical, Semi-classical and Quantum Noise, Princeton, Mar. 2014: Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels: A Model for Secure Communication in the Presence of Unknown Interference
Talk at Rutgers, Feb. 2014: The Secrecy Capacity of Compound MIMO Gaussian Channels
I joined Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Dec 1, 2013 (surprisingly, this was noteworthy enough for Princeton Engineering to annouce it on facebook and twitter)
I received the Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize 2013 on Nov 25, 2013 for my work on physical layer security (some press coverage can be found at: Wikipedia, TUM, Springer Professional, The Guardian, Gelnhausen on facebook, The MobilityHub, …)
I organized a special session on Physical Layer Security at IEEE SPAWC ’13 (with H. Vincent Poor)
Recent Papers
New paper at IEEE 16th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC ’15), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015:
A. S. Mansour, R. F. Schaefer, and H. Boche, ‘‘The Individual Secrecy Capacity of the Gaussian SISO and Degraded Gaussian MIMO Multi-Receiver Wiretap Channel’’
New papers at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT ’15), Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 2015:
R. F. Schaefer, A. Khisti, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘How to Use Independent Secret Keys for Secure Broadcasting of Common Messages’’
R. Bustin, R. F. Schaefer, H. V. Poor, and S. Shamai (Shitz), ‘‘On MMSE Properties of ‘‘Good’’ and ‘‘Bad’’ Codes for the Gaussian Broadcast Channel’’
New paper at IEEE International Conference on Communications: Workshop on Wireless Physical Layer Security (ICC - WPLS ’15), London, UK, June 2015:
R. Bustin, R. F. Schaefer, H. V. Poor, and S. Shamai (Shitz), ‘‘On MMSE Properties of Codes for the Gaussian Broadcast Channel with Confidential Messages’’
New papers at IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW ’15), Jerusalem, Israel, April 2015:
R. Bustin, R. F. Schaefer, H. V. Poor, and S. Shamai (Shitz), ‘‘On MMSE Properties of Optimal Codes for the Gaussian Wiretap Channel’’
A. Grigorescu, H. Boche, R. F. Schaefer, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘Capacity Region Continuity of the Compound Broadcast Channel with Confidential Messages’’
New papers at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC ’15), London, UK, June 2015:
H. Boche, R. F. Schaefer, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘On the Continuity of the Secrecy Capacity of Wiretap Channels Under Channel Uncertainty’’
A. S. Mansour, R. F. Schaefer, and H. Boche, ‘‘The Individual Secrecy Capacity of Degraded Multi-Receiver Wiretap Broadcast Channels’’
P. L. Cao, T. J. Oechtering, R. F. Schaefer, and M. Skoglund, ‘‘Optimal Transmission Rate for MISO Channels with Joint Sum and Per-Antenna Power Constraints’’
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