Background

• PhD Student/Research Assistant in Martin Bossert's coding theory group
• In Cotutelle de Thèse (co-supervision) with Pierre Loidreau at the IRMAR, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
• Research Interests:
  • Rank-Metric Codes (Gabidulin Codes)
  • Network Coding
  • Reed-Solomon Codes
  • Convolutional Codes (Partial Unit Memory Codes)

Publications

Conferences

• Antonia Wachter, Vladimir Sidorenko, Martin Bossert, Victor Zyablov,
  "Partial Unit Memory Codes Based on Gabidulin Codes",
  in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2011 (ISIT 2011), August 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 2487 - 2491.
• Alexander Zeh, Antonia Wachter and Sergey Bezzateev,
  "Efficient Decoding of Some Classes of Binary Cyclic Codes Beyond the Hartmann-Tzeng Bound",
  in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2011 (ISIT 2011), August 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 1017 - 1021.
• Antonia Wachter, Valentin Afanassiev, Vladimir Sidorenko,
  "Fast Decoding of Gabidulin Codes",
  in The Seventh International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography 2011 (WCC 2011), April 2011, Paris, France.
• Antonia Wachter, Vladimir Sidorenko and Martin Bossert,
  "A Fast Linearized Euclidean Algorithm for Decoding Gabidulin Codes",
  in Twelfth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory (ACCT 2010), September 2010, Novosibirsk, Russia.
• Antonia Wachter, Vladimir Sidorenko and Martin Bossert,
  "A Basis for all Solutions of the Key Equation for Gabidulin Codes",
  in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2010 (ISIT 2010), June 2010, Austin, Texas, USA, pp. 1143 - 1147.
• Sabine Kampf, Antonia Wachter and Martin Bossert,
  "A Method for Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes Based on the Extended Euclidean Algorithm",
  in ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding 2010 (SCC 2010), January 2010, Siegen, Germany.

Journals

• Antonia Wachter, Vladimir Sidorenko, Martin Bossert, Victor Zyablov,
  "On (Partial) Unit Memory Codes Based on Gabidulin Codes",
  Problems of Information Transmission, Vol. 47, No. 2. (2011), pp. 38-51.
• Alexander Zeh and Antonia Wachter,
  "Fast Multi-sequence Shift-Register Synthesis with the Euclidean Algorithm",
  Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC), Vol. 5, No. 4 (2011), pp. 667 - 680.
• Alexander Zeh, Antonia Wachter and Sergey Bezzateev,
  "Decoding Cyclic Codes up to a New Bound on the Minimum Distance",
  accepted for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012.
• Antonia Wachter, Alexander Zeh and Martin Bossert,
  "Decoding Interleaved Reed-Solomon Codes Beyond their Joint Error-Correcting Capability",
  submitted for publication, 2011.

Master's Thesis

Supervised Theses

• Markus Stinner (Diploma Thesis): Construction and Decoding of Partial Unit Memory Codes Based on Gabidulin Codes, finished, July 2011.
• Markus Ulmschneider (Bachelor's Thesis): Decoding of Generalized Reed-Solomon Codes Beyond Half the minimum Distance (co-supervision with Alexander Zeh), finished, August 2011.
• Harris Hafeez (Master's Thesis): On Algorithms Decoding Reed-Solomon Codes Beyond Half the Minimum Distance (co-supervision with Alexander Zeh), finished, December 2011.
• Mostafa Mohammad (Master's Thesis): Decoding of Rank-Metric Based Multi-Memory Codes, running.
• Georg Fischer (Master's Thesis): Decoding of Interleaved and Folded Reed-Solomon Codes (co-supervision with Alexander Zeh), running.
• ??? (Bachelor's Thesis): Performance Analysis of Convolutional Network Codes , open.
• (Other) open Master's and Bachelor's theses upon request!

Teaching

• Channel Coding, Teaching assistance, WS 2011/2012
• Advanced Channel Coding, Teaching assistance, SS 2011
• Einführung in die Nachrichtentechnik, Teaching assistance, WS 2010/2011
• Theory of Digital Networks, Teaching assistance, SS 2010
• Lab Einführung in die Nachrichtentechnik, Teaching assistance, WS 2009/2010