Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Festag
Research professorship in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems; Ombudsman for Good Scientific Practice; Business Start-Up Mentor of the Faculty
Vita
- 12/2018 – 04/2025: Deputy Head, Fraunhofer Application Centre for “Connected Mobility and Infrastructure”, Ingolstadt
- Since 2018 at THI
- 07/2016 – 02/2018: Research Group Leader, Fraunhofer Institute for Transport and Infrastructure Systems IVI, Dresden
- 03/2013 - 06/2016: Research Group Manager, Technische Universität Dresden, Vodafone Stiftungslehrstuhl für Mobile Nachrichtensysteme
- 09/2003 - 02/2013: Chief Researcher, NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg
- 12/1996 - 12/2001: Research Assistant, Technische Universität Berlin
- PhD, Technische Universität Berlin
- Study Electrical Engineering (Focus Communications engineering and Communication networks), Technische Universität Berlin
Research
- Car-2-X and Intelligent Transport Systems
- Communication-based vehicle safety and vehicle automation
- Protocol design and performance evaluation of communication systems
Publications
- „End-to-End Performance Measurements of Drone Communications in 5G Cellular Networks”, A. Festag et al., IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC2021-Fall), 2021
- „A Survey on Decentralized Cooperative Maneuver Coordination for Connected and Automated Vehicles”, D. Maksimovski, A. Festag, C. Facchi, International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS), 2021
- „Design and Performance of Congestion-Aware Collective Perception“, Q. Delooz, R. Riebl, A. Festag, A. Vinel, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), 2020
- „Mode Switching Performance in Cellular-V2X”, A. Hegde, A. Festag, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), 2020
- „Evaluation of Congestion-Enabled Forwarding With Mixed Data Traffic in Vehicular Communications”, S. Kühlmorgen, H. Lu, A. Festag, J. Kenney, S. Gemsheim, G. Fettweis, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 21 (1), 233-247
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Awards and memberships
- Rotary Research Award 2023 of the Rotary Club Ingolstadt
- Memebr of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publications
2026
JAGTAP, Abhishek Dinkar, Sanath Tiptur SADASHIVAIAH und Andreas FESTAG, 2026. Hyper-V2X: Hypernetworks for Estimating Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty in Cooperative Bird’s-Eye-View Semantic Segmentation [Preprint]. arXiv. Available at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.21309