In 2018, Martin Haardt has been named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to multi-user MIMO communications and tensor-based signal processing. He has received the 2009 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Vodafone (formerly Mannesmann Mobilfunk) Innovations-Award for outstanding research in mobile communications, the ITG best paper award from the Association of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Information Technology (VDE), and the Rohde & Schwarz Outstanding Dissertation Award. He has participated in the European research projects FRAMES, WSI, WINNER, SAPHYRE, and EMPhAtiC as well as in the European Network of Excellence NEWCOM.
His research interests include wireless communications, array signal processing, high-resolution parameter estimation, as well as numerical linear and multi-linear algebra.