{"id":19430,"date":"2026-01-08T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/pit-hofmann-copy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:40:40","slug":"juan-a-cabrera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/juan-a-cabrera\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan A. Cabrera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n

I obtained my PhD (summa cum laude) on June 16th, 2022. I am currently working at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks at TU Dresden. I lead the Chair\u2019s research group on semantic and goal-oriented communications. And I am also in charge of teaching the course \u201cPractical Implementations of Network Coding.\u201d<\/p>\n

My research interests are semantic and goal-oriented communications, functional compression, message identification, common randomness generation, network coding, and in-network distributed storage and computing.<\/p>\n

I was born in Caracas, Venezuela and studied at Simon Bolivar University, where I received his bachelor\u2019s degree with honours (cum laude) in electronics engineering in 2013. I studied for one year in Prague, Czech Republic, during the bachelor\u2019s program at the Czech Technical University in Prague (2011 \u2013 2012). After I finished my bachelor\u2019s, I moved to Denmark, receiving my master\u2019s degree (2015) in wireless communications systems at Aalborg University.<\/p>\n

Projekte\/Kooperationen innerhalb von CeTI, an denen Sie beteiligt sind:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Semantic and goal-oriented communication<\/li>\n
  • Novel computing platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    What are the main topics or questions that drive your research?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    Most communication systems are built to deliver messages as faithfully as possible. But in many applications, we don\u2019t communicate for its own sake. We communicate to make something happen: to control a system, coordinate agents, or compute a decision at the destination. <\/span>I want to understand, at its fundamental level, how to design communication around that objective. What must be transmitted to compute a function reliably? When is reconstructing the raw data wasteful (or even the wrong goal)? By treating the task as part of the communication problem, I want to build systems that trade unnecessary fidelity for lower latency and energy, without sacrificing the effect we care about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    What inspired you to pursue your current field of work?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    I\u2019ve always been fascinated by communication systems. Since I was a child, I have been attracted to radios, computers, and tinkering with electronic devices, and that\u2019s how I got into communication systems. When I did my PhD in Dresden, I realised that there is a whole new world of uncharted territory beyond Shannon\u2019s message transmission, and into goal-oriented communication. I would like to go there and help map this new field.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    What excites you most about being part of CeTI?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    Working within a large interdisciplinary team is quite inspiring. There is someone from a completely different field always at hand\u2019s reach!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Which challenge or question has recently sparked your curiosity?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    If we know the goal of our communication, and we know the channel we must use, then what exactly do we communicate to achieve this goal, and how do we trade fidelity, energy and latency?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    How do you like to recharge or spend your time outside of work?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    I like reading and hanging out with friends!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":19456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-junior-professors","category-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceti.one\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}