Rick Fritschek

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Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, 2018
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, 2012
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Hochschule Furtwangen, 2010

Work Experience

• Postdoctoral Researcher at Technische Universität Dresden, January 2023 - present
  • Working on the interplay between information theory, machine learning, and statistics
• Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität Siegen, February 2022 - December 2022
  • Worked on the interplay between classical codes and AI
• Postdoctoral Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, October 2019 - January 2022
  • Principal investigator of the DFG-funded project “Machine Learning for Physical Layer Security”
• Postdoctoral Researcher at Technische Universität Berlin, May 2019 - September 2019
  • Worked on deep learning-based channel coding techniques
• Postdoctoral Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, July 2018 - April 2019
  • Worked on deep learning-based channel coding techniques for security
• Ph.D. Student at Freie Universität Berlin, October 2015 - June 2018
  • Research topic: capacity approximations for physical layer security
• Ph.D. Student at Technische Universität Berlin, September 2012 - September 2015
  • Research topic: capacity approximations for multi-user networks
• Undergraduate Researcher at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, September 2009 - December 2009
  • Simulated radiation inside the interim storage facility for nuclear waste

Skills

• Languages:
  • German (native)
  • English (proficient)
• Technical:
  • Information theory
  • Physical layer security
  • Machine learning and deep learning
  • High-dimensional statistics
• Programming:
  • LaTeX
  • Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, pandas)
  • MATLAB
  • C/C++
  • MCNP5