Congratulations to all ISTC 2025 Best Paper Award recipients!
Tim Janz, Simon Obermüller, Semira Galijasevic, Ramy Khabbaz
First Place
Soft-Output from Covered Space Decoding of Product Codes
Tim Janz, Simon Obermüller, Andreas Zunker and Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Second Place
Geometric and Probabilistic Shaping to Enable LDPC Encoding with Linear Complexity
Semira Galijasevic (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Gianluigi Liva (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Dariush Divsalar (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA); Richard Wesel (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Third Place
Marker Guess & Check Plus (MGC+): An Efficient Short Blocklength Code for Random Edit Errors
Ramy Khabbaz (CNRS & Côte d’Azur University France, France); Marc Antonini (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Serge Kas Hanna (CNRS & Côte d’Azur University, France)