Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Prof. Dr. Laurent Schmalen from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) contributes to our IKS event series with an online lecture entitled: „Improving Communication Systems Using Machine Learning“ Today, communication engineering still follows a model‐based design methodology influenced by the seminal design guidelines that were formulated by Claude Shannon in the 1940s. Such a model‐based approach may however not be suitable for many modern communication scenarios. In this talk, we show how we can augment communication systems using machine learning and in particular deep learning. In the first part of the talk, we show how machine learning can be used to optimize channel‐agnostic waveforms for an optical communication system. In the second part of the talk, we show how machine learning can be used to augment existing receiver algorithms and in particular channel decoding. We illustrate that short channel codes can be decoded with a performance close to the theoretical performance limits with significantly lower complexity than other state‐of‐the‐art methods

Prof. Dr. Laurent Schmalen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Date: March, 5th 2021 | 13.00 Uhr

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The Women’s Leadership Initiative was established to significantly increase the number of women entering the semiconductor market, as well as elevate their participation on both boards and leadership positions. The event will start with an insightful keynote from one of the most successful women in the European technology industry: Françoise Chombar, co-founder and CEO of MELEXIS, an integrated-circuits world leader. Furthermore, recently graduated women will share their personal experiences and explain why they recently chose to work in the technology and semiconductor industry. Participants will be encouraged to ask questions and facilitate virtual networking.

The event is complimentary to all students.
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Like many other events in the past months, this year’s study information day also took place virtually. We were allowed to give the WDR a look behind the scenes at our faculty.

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