Alex Jäger

M.Sc. Alex Jäger is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Communications Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), affiliated with the Chair of Communications Engineering (Prof. Kramer). His research focuses on mitigating nonlinear distortions in fiber-optic communication systems, particularly addressing cross-phase modulation and phase noise through advanced coding schemes and signal processing techniques.

Education:

• B.Eng. from University of Applied Sciences Konstanz (HTWG), 2020
• M.Sc. from Technical University of Munich (TUM), 2022

Research Interests: Development of coding schemes, receiver design, and digital signal processing methods for optical fiber channels. His work addresses challenges like nonlinear effects, capacity bounds, and interference cancellation in high-speed fiber-optic systems.

Teaching: Involved in teaching courses such as Machine Learning for Communications, Digital Signal Processing for Optical Communication Systems, and Scientific Seminars on Coding/Cryptography/Optical Communications.

Thesis Supervision:

• Completed Theses: Turbo Equalization for Optical Fiber/Phase Noise Channels, Balanced Information Rates for Successive Interference Cancellation, and others.
• Ongoing Theses: Perturbation-Based Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation.
• Available Topics: Focus on optical communications and receiver design at BA/MA/FP levels.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Institute for Communications Engineering, collaborating with Prof. Kramer and the Optical Networks Group (ONG) at UCL during his M.Sc. thesis.