Lifetime achievement awards

• Würdigungspreis in Science and Engineering, Federal state of Carinthia, Austria; 2018
  A prize awarded every four years in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements

Publication awards

• IEEE Intern. Conf. on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS); Karsten Schwan Best paper award; 2021
• IEEE Intern. Conf. on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO); Best paper award; 2019
• ACM Intern. Conf. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM); Best paper award; 2017
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC Spring); Best student paper award; 2009
• ISABEL workshop; Best student paper award; 2008
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC Spring); Best paper award; 2008
• VDE/ITG Outstanding publication award (“Preis der ITG”); 2004

Teaching awards

• Prize for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Klagenfurt; 2022

Innovation and project awards

• Austria’s futurezone award in the category “5G innovation of the year” for Lakeside Labs’ work on communication in drone swarms; 2022

Team members and students

Lifetime achievements and competitions

• Samira Hayat: N2Women: Rising stars in computer networking and communications; 2022
• Agata Barciś et al.: Winner of the Deep Drone Challenge; € 25,000; 2021

Dissertation and master thesis awards

• Agata Barciś: Digitalization scholarship for her doctoral dissertation; Federal state of Carinthia; 2022
• Micha Sende: Digitalization scholarship for his doctoral dissertation; Federal state of Carinthia; 2021
• Christina Ruß: Graduation award (“Würdigungspreis”); Austrian Minister for Science, Research, and Economy; 2014
• Johannes Klinglmayr: Erwin Wenzl “Anerkennungspreis” (runner-up) for his doctoral dissertation; 2014
• Helmut Adam: Doctoral dissertation award; Austrian OVE/GIT; 2012

Excellence scholarships

The “Exzellenzstipendium” awarded by the Austrian industry societies (Industriellenvereinigung) finances outstanding scientific activities at a university or research center abroad with a lump sum in the amount of € 10,000. The selection process is highly competitive. The scholarship is restricted to Austrian nationalities with a bachelor degree or higher. The following members or students under my supervision received such a scholarship:

• Daniel Neuhold for a research stay at the University of Southern California (USC), 2017 (article)
• Christina Ruß for her master thesis work at the University of Notre Dame, 2013
• Johannes Klinglmayr for multiple research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 2011