Maximilian Egger is a Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Communications Engineering under Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His research focuses on distributed machine learning, privacy-preserving computing, and information theory. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (2022, TUM) and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering (2020). He has conducted research stays at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2024) and Imperial College London (2023). Egger has received several awards, including the DAAD Scholarship (2023) and the VDE Award Bavaria (2020). His work emphasizes secure federated learning, Byzantine-resilient systems, and efficient distributed algorithms. He is affiliated with the Chair of Coding and Cryptography and actively contributes to advancements in decentralized learning systems. Recent publications highlight breakthroughs in privacy preservation, channel capacity estimation, and scalable federated edge learning.










