Prof. Dr-Ing. Thorsten Herfet

Chair of the Telecommunications Lab since August 2004

Phone:	+49 681 302-70852
Fax:	+49 681 302-70857
Mail:	herfet@nt.uni-saarland.de
Location:	Campus C6 3, Room 10.02

Adjunct Affiliations #

• Vice President Research & Technology Transfer, Saarland University, 2014–2017
• Director of Research & Operations, IVCI, 2009–2017
• Dean of Computer Science & Mathematics, 2006–2008

Research Areas #

• Energy-, Latency- & Resilience-aware 5G+ Networking
• Deep Learnin in Telecommunication
• Computational Videography
• High-Mobility in OFDM-Systems

Engagements #

• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE 2024
• Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2024
• Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2023
• Technical Program Committee Member of the ZINC 2023
• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE VTC-Spring2023
• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the  NEM Summit 2008–2023
• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE 2023
• Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2023
• Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2022
• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE VTC-Spring2022
• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE ICCE 2022
• Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the IEEE CCNC 2022
• Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia Asia 2021
• Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2021
• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE VTC-Spring2021
• Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM GoodIT 2021
• Technical Program Committee Member of Frugalthings2020 at the ACM MobiCom 2020
• Technical Program Committee Member of the ACM Multimedia 2020
• Technical Program Committee Member of the IEEE VTC-Fall2020
• Program Committee Member of the MMB2020
• Organizing Committee Member (Workshop Co-Chair) of the  IEEE CCNC 2019,  2020 & 2021
• Technical Program Committee Member of the  ACM MMSys2019
• Technical Program Committee Member of the  3ICT2019
• Technical Program Committee Member of the  IEEE ICST2019
• Technical Program Committee Member of the  IEEE ICCE2019
• Technical Program Committee Member of the  ICCC2016 and  ICCC2018
• International Advisor & Technical Program Committee Member, 2nd–8th IEEE ICCE-Berlin
• Program Committee Member of the 13th–15th ITG Symposium on Electronic Media
• Technical Program Committee Member of  ACM Multimedia 2005
• Keynote speaker and Session Chair on  WiCOM 2007
• Guest Editor of the  EURASIP Journal of Adv. in Signal Proc. Special Issue on Video Quality
• Guest Editor of the  IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting Special Issue on IPTV
• Guest Editor of the  Int. Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences (IJCNS)
• Reviewer for the Journal on Entertainment Computing
• Reviewer for the  International Journal of Electronics & Communications
• Reviewer for the  Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal
• Reviewer for the  IEEE Access Journal
• Reviewer for the  IEEE Wireless Communication Letters
• Reviewer for the  Journal of Network and Computer Applications
• Reviewer for the  ETRI Journal
• Reviewer for the  Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile 2014
• Reviewer for the  SIGGRAPH 2012
• Reviewer for the  Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
• Reviewer for the  IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
• Reviewer for the  Proceedings of the IEEE
• Member of the Board of Trustees of  Fraunhofer IAIS
• Project Reviewer in the  European Commission H2020 Program
• Evaluator for projects funded by the  BMWi
• Auditor for Research Institutes within the  FhG
• Member of the Jury for  NextGeneration Media

Awards #

• Busy Beaver WS12/13 (Student Award for the best lecture in CS)
• BITKOM e.V. Innovators’ Pitch 2009 Academic
• Intel EMEA Recognition Award 2009
• Intel Labs Recognition Award 2009
• Busy Beaver WS08/09 (Student Award for the best lecture in CS)
• Intel Corporate Technology Group Division Recognition Award 2005
• Rudolf-Urtel Award 1993

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