The Award of Excellence is a prestigious honor bestowed by the Republic of Austria through the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science, and Research. Since 2008, this award has been presented annually to the top 40 graduates of Austrian doctoral programs from the previous academic year.
Dr. Stefan Baumgartner received this award for his groundbreaking dissertation, "Machine Learning Concepts for Physical Layer Receiver Processing in Wireless Communication Systems." In his work, he developed innovative hybrid model- and learning-based equalizer concepts for wireless communication systems, which significantly outperformed conventional methods. Additionally, he designed highly efficient neural network-based techniques to estimate and eliminate strong self-interference signals in full-duplex transceivers.
Dr. Baumgartner conducted research at the JKU SAL Embedded Systems and Machine Learning Lab, producing practical, high-impact results that bridge academic rigor and real-world application.
Awarded date
10 Dec 2025
Degree of recognition
National
Granting Organisations
Bundesministerium für Frauen, Wissenschaft und Forschung