Ph.D. Student Activities

1. Publications
2. Talks
3. Reviews
4. Courses
5. Proposals
6. Projects and Competitions
7. Supervised Students
8. Institute Tasks
9. Fun Stats

Publications (4)

• M. Le, B. Peng and E. A. Jorswieck, “WiFi-CUTS: Rate Adaptation with Cascaded Unimodal Multi-Armed Bandits in IEEE 802.11ac Testbed Experiments,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications (Early Access), doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3628731.
• M. Le et al., “Multi-Armed Bandits in IEEE 802.11ac: Efficient Algorithms and Testbed Experiments,” in CQR 2024 - IEEE International Workshop Technical Committee on Communications Quality and Reliability: Proceedings, Sep. 2024, pp. 7–12. doi: 10.1109/cqr62340.2024.10705888.
• S. P. Pawar et al., “Open-source Resource Control API for real IEEE 802.11 Networks,” in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom ’24, Dec. 2024, pp. 1866–1873. doi: 10.1145/3636534.3697314.
• S. Rezvani, P.-H. Lin, M. Le, and E. Jorswieck, “Legitimate against Illegitimate IRSs on MISO Wiretap Channels,” in 12th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2022), Jun. 2022, pp. 445–449. doi: 10.1109/sam53842.2022.9827890.

Talks (5)

• Multi-Armed Bandits für WLAN-Optimierung (in German), Interdisziplinäres Seminar des Masterstudiengangs Digitale Kommunikation und Medientechnologie, Nov. 2024.
• Multi-Armed Bandits in IEEE 802.11ac: Efficient Algorithms and Testbed Experiments, AssiEx 2024 @ Telenor, 23th Aug. 2024.
• Multi-Armed Bandits in Wi-Fi (in German) - YouTube Link, Freifunk/openWRT @ c-base in Berlin, 23th Jan. 2024.
• Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits, Advanced Topics in Communications Theory, Dec. 2022.
• Machinelles Lernen für Wi-Fi (in German), VDE ProfDate, Oct. 2021.

Reviewer Activities (17)

Reviewer for the following Conferences/Workshops (13)

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2025)
• European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) & 6G Summit 2025
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2025)
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024)
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2024)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2022)
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2022)
• IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2022)
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshop (GLOBECOM 2022 Workshop)
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2021)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshop (ICC 2020 Workshop)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshop (Globecom 2020 Workshop)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019)

Reviewer for the following Journals (2)

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2023
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 2021

Projects and Competitions (2)

• Wireless Wanderlust Competition hosted by IEEE ISIT 2025 (2025, won Junior prize)
• BMBF SupraCoNeX (2020-2024)

Courses (6)

• Technology and Innovation Management (previous: Management of Research and Development Processes) (Winter term 2020/21 - Winter term 2024/25) as organizer
• Introduction to Programming for Non-Computer Scientists (Winter term 2022/23 - Winter term 2024/25) as course content creator, organizer and supervisor
• Advanced Topics in Communications Theory (Winter term 2022/23) as lecturer
• Signals and Systems (Summer term 2021 - Winter term 2023/24) as teaching assistent
• Information Theory (Winter term 2020/21 - Winter term 2022/23) as teaching assistent
• Optimization and Game Theory (Summer term 2020 - Summer term 2022) as teaching assistent

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Proposals (3)

• Applied for fundings for Modernization of the module “Signals and Systems” under the Project Promoting Digital education through Global Interconnection (ProDiGI) (Jan 2022 - approved)
• Applied for decentralized study quality funding (in German: SQM) to employ a student assistant for support in Signals and Systems course (Dec 2021 - approved)
• Applied for decentralized study quality funding (in German: SQM) for a server for fundamental courses (Dec 2021 - approved)

Supervised Students (13)

Master Thesis (2)

• R. S. - Wi-Fi rate adaptation with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Implementation on actual hardware (?)
• T. R. - Efficient Resource Allocation in IEEE 802.11 networks using Multi-Armed Bandits (Dec 2022 - June 2023)
• Z. C. - Proactive Resource Allocation for Vehicular Communication with Deep Reinforcement Learning (Feb 2021 - Aug 2021)

HiWi (5)

• P. K. - Support in Python Programming Lecture (Nov 2022 - Sep 2024)
• S. P. - Support in Signals and Systems Tutorial (April 2022 - Sep 2022)
• J. B. - Development of Tools for Monitoring Resources of Simulation PCs (Feb 2022 - Jan 2023)
• V. L. - Support in Signals and Systems Tutorial (Jan 2022 - June 2022)
• T. R. - Implementation of Python Jupyter Notebooks for Lectures (Jan 2021 - Aug 2021)

Student Seminar (3)

• W. W. - How AI plays Games with Imperfect Information (Summer term 2023)
• J. P. - How AI plays Hide and Seek (Winter term 2021)
• D. S. - Game Theory in Wireless Resource Management (Winter term 2020)

Advanced Topics in Communications (1)

• I. S. - Cascaded Multi-Armed Bandits (Feb 2024)

University Projects (1)

• F. P. - Climate Crisis Clock (2023 - discontinued)

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Projects (1)

• R. S. - Deep Q-Network-based Rate Adaptation for IEEE 802.11ac Networks (GSoC 2025)

University/Institute Projects and Courses (12)

Responsibilies (4)

• TUBS IfN Website Admin
• Beverage manager and fridge checker
• Poster print manager
• Table tennis committee member and founder

Institute-internal Projects (3)

• Introduction of Jupyter Notebooks for Teaching with automated grading, introduced to:
  • TU Braunschweig through TU Insights: Digitales in der Lehre (23th Nov. 2021 - StudIP Link)
  • Leichtweiß-Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources
  • Institute for Materials Science
• Literature library - discontinued
• Project Management Software (using OpenProject) - discontinued

Graduate Academy (GradTUBS) Courses (4 attended)

• Persuasive arguing for scientists (Summer term 2021)
• Scientific Integrity (Summer term 2020)
• Planning and Structuring of my Ph.D. time (Winter term 2020)
• Time Management (Winter term 2020)

Career Service Workshops (2 attended)

• Teamwork Essentials (20.11.2025)
• The Perfect Written Application for the German Job Market (11.11.2025)

Fun Stats and Activities

• Occupied 6 different offices (one at a time)
• Shared office with 12 colleagues (AH, JL, FW, SR, SM, RR, LK, MM, ZG, BP, MP, FC)
• Collected 21 recups (personal record) from IfN milkshake walks before returning them
• Member of several groups in Braunschweig:
  • Founder, IfN Animal/Pet Picture Chat Group
  • Co-Founder, IfN Food Discovery Group
  • Founder, Korean-German Language Tandem Group in Braunschweig
  • Founder, IfN Duolingo Family
  • Member, Board Game Group
  • Founder, Tennis Group (discontinued)
  • Member, IfN Soccer Group (discontinued)
• Loves to learn languages:
  • German (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • Korean (upper intermediate)
  • Vietnamese (upper intermediate)
  • Chinese (beginner)
  • French (beginner)

Last updated on Dec 2, 2025.