Juan Alberto Cabrera obtained his PhD (summa cum laude) on June 16th, 2022. He is currently working at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks at TU Dresden. He leads the Chair’s research group on semantic and goal-oriented communications. He is also in charge of teaching the course “Practical Implementations of Network Coding.”
Juan Cabrera’s research interests are semantic and goal-oriented communications, functional compression, message identification, common randomness generation, network coding, and in-network distributed storage and computing.
He was born in Caracas, Venezuela and studied at Simon Bolivar University, where he received his bachelor’s degree with honours (cum laude) in electronics engineering in 2013. He studied for one year in Prague, Czech Republic, during the bachelor’s program at the Czech Technical University in Prague (2011 – 2012). After finishing his bachelor’s, he moved to Denmark, receiving his master’s degree (2015) in wireless communications systems at Aalborg University.
Zheng, Ruifeng; Zhou, Pengjie; Hofmann, Pit; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
DNA-Based Molecular Communication: A Markov Approach to Channel Modeling and Detection Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), 2025.
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Rosenberger, Johannes; Boche, Holger; Cabrera, Juan A.; Deppe, Christian
Towards a Compositional Theory of Channels that Preserve Functions Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), pp. 5.79, Sydney, Australia, 2025.
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Zhou, Pengjie; Zheng, Ruifeng; Hofmann, Pit; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
DMPPIC: An Improved CFD Solver for Microfluidic Molecular Communication Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), Nice, France, 2025.
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Kutsevol, Polina; Lengerke, Caspar; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Kellerer, Wolfgang
Distributed Platoon Control via Semantic-Aware Identification Codes Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 2025.
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Wietfeld, Alexander; Hofmann, Pit; Fuchtmann, Jonas; Zhou, Pengjie; Zheng, Ruifeng; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Kellerer, Wolfgang
Advanced Plaque Modeling for Atherosclerosis Detection Using Molecular Communication Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 2025.
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Zimmermann, Sandra; Schwenteck, Paul; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
COSMIC - Coding for Optimized Sending in Multimedia InterPlanetary Communication Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), pp. 6, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2025.
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Sheshagiri, Prashanth K. H.; Reisslein, Martin; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
CFO-CR: Carrier Frequency Offset Methodology for High-Rate Common Randomness Generation Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, 2025.
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Rosenberger, Johannes; Boche, Holger; Cabrera, Juan A.; Deppe, Christian; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Stochastic Consensus-Testing in Relay Networks Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2025), 2025.
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Lengerke, Caspar; Cabrera, Juan A.; Reisslein, Martin; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Codes for Identification via Channels: Tutorial for Communications Generalists Journal Article
In: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2025.
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Zheng, Ruifeng; Hofmann, Pit; Zhou, Pengjie; Cabrera, Juan A.; Seeling, Patrick; Reisslein, Martin; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
ANIS: Anti-Noise ISI-Suppression Filter for Molecular Communication via Diffusion Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, 2025.
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Hofmann, Pit; Cabrera, Juan A.; Schulte, Gunnar; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
A Biologically Inspired and Protein-Based Bio-Cyber Interface for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things Journal Article
In: Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, vol. 22, 2024.
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Sheshagiri, Prashanth K. H.; Reisslein, Martin; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Raw channel metrics from Ettus N210 USRP for common randomness generation Medium
IEEE Dataport, 2024, visited: 01.01.2024.
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Hofe, Nico; Hofmann, Pit; Benken, Frederic; Hofer, Johannes; Zhou, Pengjie; Zheng, Ruifeng; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Sniffing out the Path: Olfactory Localization based Low-Cost SLAM for Disaster Scenarios Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshops (GLOBECOM Workshops), Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.
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Kurt, Mehmet Akif; Sheshagiri, Prashanth K. H.; Gabriel, Jennifer; Cabrera, Juan A.; Xiao, Xun; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Unjammable: A Practical Approach to Jamming-Safe Wireless Channels Proceedings Article
In: Global Communications Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.
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Rosenberger, Johannes; Boche, Holger; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Consensus Testing via Relay Networks by Physical-Layer Network Coding Proceedings Article
In: Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.
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Tariq, Raazia; Gammoudi, Mégane; Khan, Omer Hanif; Dürrwald, Franz Alwin; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Using Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing Energy Consumed by Base Stations Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Communications, Information, Electronic and Energy Systems (CIEES), Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 2024.
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Wang, Shangqing; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Bidirectional Charging Use Cases: Innovations in E-Mobility and Power-Grid Flexibility Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), pp. 1-6, Pattaya, Thailand, 2024.
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Zhou, Pengjie; Zheng, Ruifeng; Hofmann, Pit; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
A Diffusive MPPIC Solver in OpenFOAM for Microfluidic Molecular Communication Proceedings Article
In: ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NANOCOM), pp. 126–127, New York, NY, USA, 2024.
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Rezwan, Sifat; Hofe, Nico; Hofer, Johannes; Cabrera, Juan A.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Testbed for Semantic Compression-based Networked Immersion Using Boston Dynamics Spot Proceedings Article
In: IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Dubai, UAE, 2024.
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Cabrera, Juan A.; Hofmann, Pit; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Boche, Holger
Calculation system and related procedure Patent
2024, (DE102023114253B3).
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