On March 26th, imec-WAVES (Ghent University) organized the second PhD Forum featuring four inspiring talks from our researchers. Topics spanned neuromodulation (intended and unintended), spatial diversity and multiplexing in industrial Massive MIMO environments, magnetic shielding performance, and RF-EMF exposure assessment. Read more here. (March 2026)

Robin Wydaeghe won the third prize in the Sim4Life Student Competition 2025. Congratulations! Read more here. (Jan 2026)

On November 7th, imec-WAVES (Ghent University) organized a PhD Forum featuring four inspiring talks from our researchers, each presenting innovative work across wireless communication, sensing, and AI. Read more here. (Dec 2025)

Jeroen Van der Straeten et al. won best student poster award with his work titled: “A mmWave RF-EMF exposure sensor for 5G FR2: Concept and Design” 4th Annual Meeting of Bioelectromagnetics BioEM2025, Rennes, France, June 22-27 2025. (June 2025)

We are excited to announce the publication of a survey on Visible Light Sensing (VLS) by Morteza Alijani, Cedric De Cock, Wout Joseph, and David Plets in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IF: 34.4). This paper provides an in-depth exploration of the evolution and potential of device-free VLS (DF-VLS) systems, focusing on their role in 6G networks and the Internet of Things (IoT). It examines key techniques, applications, and challenges, offering a roadmap for the future development of this transformative technology. Access the open-access paper here. (March 2025)

INVITATION: Shaping the AI revolution. Keynotes by Prof. Luc Martens (IMEC) and others. More details can be found here. (dec 2024)

Congratulations to Dr. Yuanbo Hou, supervised by Prof. Dick Botteldooren, for being awarded the “2023 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad” (A Category).

Research

News

New vacancy: Researcher for assessment of realistic electromagnetic exposure of humans for 5G wireless systems in public and industry. Read more. (Nov. 2024)

On Saturday December 10th 2022, professor Sarah Verhulst received the award "Laureate of the Academy" in the class Technical Sciences. This is one of the most prestigious awards of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Young, promising researchers (up to 40 years old), whose main activity is situated in Flanders, are eligible for this. (Dec. 2022)

German Castellanos won the award for the best presentation of the day of the Annual Conference of Informatics, MUltimedia and Telecommunications Technologies, LACETEL, (ACIMUTT 2022) in CUBA with the presentation “60 GHZ NETWORK PLANNING FOR FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS.” (1-3 Nov 2022)

Conferences & Workshops (Upcoming and past)

BioEM 2025 June 22 - 27, 2025 Rennes, France
Inter-Noise 2024 August 25 - 29, 2024 Nantes, France La Cité des Congrès de Nantes
BioEM 2024 June 16 - 21, 2024 Crete, Greece Minoa Palace Conference Center, Chania