"Low-power Embedded Networked Systems" Group

The Low-power Embedded Networked Systems (LENS) group is a team of researchers focusing on future connected wireless embedded systems, aiming to make them more dependable and sustainable. The team's activities can be broadly characterized as "systems and application-driven experimental research" at the intersection of wireless networking, embedded systems, and IoT applications. Among others, the group works on the design principles, optimization methods, and tools necessary to network resource-constrained wireless devices -- which are the basis for the Internet of Things -- in a reliable yet energy-efficient manner.

In the few years since its foundation (2016), the LENS group, led by Assoc.Prof. Dr. Carlo Alberto Boano, has distinguished itself internationally for the scientific excellence of its research on low-power wireless networks and IoT research. More than 25 papers have been published at leading/excellent conferences (i.e., rated CORE A/A*) and more than 20 awards have been received (including numerous best paper/demo/poster/artifact awards). The group has supervised 6 successful PhD theses and over 40 Master's and Bachelor's theses; in total, more than 100 scientific contributions have been published (full list), many of them in collaboration with academic and industrial partners. The research results of the LENS group led to patents as well as to the foundation of a company (DEWINE Labs GmbH) by former group members. Moreover, the group has been involved in several third-party funded national, European, and international projects, and is also internationally renowned for its open benchmarking infrastructures (such as D-Cube), which have been used to organize competitions quantitatively comparing the performance of state-of-the-art low-power wireless systems.


Group members

Fikret Bašić (Postdoc researcher)
Carlo Alberto Boano (group leader)
Dženita Džafić (PhD student)
Markus Gallacher (PhD student)
Theo Gasteiger (PhD student)
M. Hassaan Hydher (PhD student)
Kay Uwe Römer (deputy leader)
Maximilian P. Schuh (PhD student)
Markus Schuss (Postdoc researcher)
Michael Stocker (PhD student)

Alumni & Visitors

Hannah Brunner (PhD graduate, 2020-2024)
Enrico Soprana (visiting PhD student, 2024)
Rachida Saroui (visiting MSc student, 2024)
Vu Anh Minh Le (visiting PhD student, 2023-2024)
Elisabeth Salomon (PhD student, 2021-2024)
Pei Tian (visiting PhD graduate, 2021-2023)
Sonali Deo (PhD student, 2022-2023)
Mateusz Banaszek (visiting PhD student, 2022)
Rainer Hofmann (PhD student, 2017-2021)
Michael Spörk (PhD graduate, 2016-2021)
Bernhard Großwindhager (PhD graduate, 2016-2020)
Jiska Classen (visiting PhD student, 2019)
Jakob Link (visiting PhD student, 2019)
Antonio Langiu (visiting MSc student and group member, 2017-2018)
Marco Cattani (Postdoc researcher, 2016-2018)
Marco Steger (PhD graduate, 2015-2018)

Contacts
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Assoc.Prof. Dr. Carlo Alberto Boano
Institute of Technical Informatics
VCard - Personal Website

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Vacancies
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  • We are constantly looking for talented PhD students / Postdoc researchers with solid experience on our research topics that are interested in joining our group: if you want to shape the future of embedded wireless IoT systems, and make them more dependable, contact us!
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