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

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Awards for team members and students

Lifetime achievements

• Samira Hayat: N2Women: Rising stars in computer networking and communications; 2022

Competitions

• Agata Barciś et al.: Winner of the Swarm Drone Challenge; € 50,000; funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy (Gründerland Bayern); 2024
• Agata Barciś et al.: Winner of the Deep Drone Challenge; € 25,000; 2021

Awards for doctoral, master, and bachelor theses

• Judith Wieser: Digitalization scholarship for her bachelor thesis; Federal state of Carinthia; 2023
• Melisa Midžan: Digitalization scholarship for her master thesis; Federal state of Carinthia; 2023
• 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 (resulting in an article in the IEEE Trans. Communications)
• Johannes Klinglmayr for multiple research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 2011