Prof. Dr.-Ing. Antonia Wachter-Zeh
Academic Career and Research Areas
Antonia Wachter-Zeh is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany in the School of Computation, Information and Technology. She received the M.Sc. degree in communications technology in 2009 from Ulm University, Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2013 from Ulm University and from Universite de Rennes 1, Rennes, France. From 2013 to 2016, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and from 2016 to 2020 a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at TUM.
She is a recipient of the DFG Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis and of an ERC Starting Grant. She is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Her research interests are coding theory, post-quantum cryptography and information theory and their application to storage, communications, privacy, security and machine learning.
Awards
- Top 40 Under 40, Capital Magazine (2023)
- Johann-Philipp-Reis Award (2023)
- Starting Grant, European Research Council (ERC) (2018)
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2018)
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Horizon 2020, European Commission (2015-2016)
Key Publications (all publications)
Xhemrishi M., Ostman J., Wachter-Zeh A., Graell i Amat, A. “FedGT: Identification of Malicious Clients in Federated Learning with Secure Aggregation”. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 2025; 20: 2577-2592.
AbstractAragon N., Dyseryn V., Gaborit P., Loidreau P., Renner J., Wachter-Zeh A. “LowMS: a New Rank Metric Code-based KEM without Ideal Structure”. Designs, Codes, and Crytopgraphy. 2023; 92:1075–1093.
AbstractLenz A., Siegel P., Wachter-Zeh A., Yaakobi E. “Coding over Sets for DNA Storage”. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 2020; 66(4):2331–2351.
AbstractHolzbaur L., Freij-Hollanti R., Wachter-Zeh A., Hollanti C. “Private Streaming with Convolutional Codes”. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 2020; 66(4): 2331–2351.
AbstractWachter-Zeh A: "Bounds on List Decoding of Rank-Metric Codes”. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 2013; 59(11): 7268-7277.
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