The HafenCity Run is the biggest charity run in northern Germany. On 1st of June nearly half of the Institute of Communications took part in this 4.5 km long run. It led through the modern waterfront district showcasing the newest and most beautiful landmarks of this growing area. In temperatures of around 24 degrees and lots of sunshine, in total 181 TUHH members showed team spirit and ran for a good cause.

On January 9, 2024, Jan-Christoph Brumm successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Channel Modeling and Performance Analysis of Ultra Wideband In-Body Communication. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Dr. habil. Sybille Fröschle (Institute for Secure Cyber Physical Systems) and the reviewers Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Bauch and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter A. Höher (Kiel University).

Jannik Jacobsen received the Karl H. Ditze award for his master thesis "Optimization of Parity-Check-Matrices of LDPC-Codes". The award ceremony took place on July 19, 2023 in the Karl H. Ditze lecture hall at TUHH. The thesis was written as part of a cooperation between the Institute of Comunications (E-8) and the Institute of Mathematics (E-10).

Maximilian Stark received the Tesat-Spacecom Science Award for his Ph.D. thesis „Machine Learning for Reliable Communication Under Coarse Quantization.” The award ceremony as part of the GOSATCOM conference took place in Munich on March 28, 2023. The laudatory speech was given by Tesat-Spacecom CTO Siegbert Martin.

Gerhard Bauch, head of the Institute of Communications was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for the term 2023-2025 and as Executive Vice President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for the term 2023.

Maximilian Stark received the Sick award for his phd thesis „ Machine Learning for Reliable Communication Under Coarse Quantization.” The award ceremony with participation of the donator Renate Sick-Glaser as well as the SICK foundation board member Wolfgang Bay took place on June 29, 2022.

The paper “P. Mohr, M. Stark, G. Bauch: Information Bottleneck receivers for ISI Channels” received a best paper award of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, which took place May 16-20, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. ICC is a flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society with about 2500-3000 participants.

On October 26, 2021, Mustafa Muhamed Talat Ali Muhamed Emara successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Spatiotemporal Analysis of Wireless Internet of Things Networks. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf-Rainer Grigat (Institute of Vision Systems) and the reviewers Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Bauch, Prof. Marco di Renzo, Ph.D., (Université Paris-Saclay), and Prof. Hesham ElSawy, Ph.D., (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia).

Gerhard Bauch, head of the Institute of Communications was elected as Vice President Mobile Radio of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

On September 23, 2021, Maximilian Stark successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis Machine Learning for Reliable Communication Under Coarse Quantization. The Ph.D. examination committee was formed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kölpin (Institute of High-Frequency Technology) and the reviewers Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Bauch, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Kühn (University of Rostock), and Richard Wesel, Professor at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, LA.