Tom Van de Steene won the IMEC 2022 Obstacle Challenge @ Imec Summer Festival 2022 in Leuven. Congratulations! (June 2022)

Robin Wydaeghe won the 2^nd place poster presentation award at the BioEM2022 conference in Nagoya, Japan. Congratulations! (June 2022)

Brecht De Beelde won the best student paper competition at URSI AT-AP RASC 2022. Congratulations! (June 2022)

Prof. Sarah Verhulst and her team receive European funding for innovative research that detects and treats hearing loss. Read more... (March 2022)

Research

Tools & Demonstrators

**Map Matching Tool**
Estimate likely route from raw
GPS and OpenStreetMap data

**IWEC Tool**
Indoor Wireless
Exposure Calculator

**WHIPP Tool**
Heuristic Indoor
Propagation Prediction

**Prevention Advisors**
EM-radiation exposure
compliance for workers

**Sugestio**
Recommendations
as a service

News

Waves team building day in Bruges, April 2022.

Chenglong Li is winner of two awards:
- Best paper award URSI Benelux Forum, 2^nd place, February 2022 C. Li, et al “DUDAR: Device-Free Pedestrian Tracking Using Commodity Ultra-Wideband Radios”
- URSI Young Scientists Award based on his RFID research and the academic performance in radio science research field

Luc Martens is elected as president of the new Bioelectromagnetics society, Wout Joseph as board member (Feb 2022).

WAVES obtained 3 (!) EU projects in the Horizon-Health call Exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health: ETAIN, GOLIAT and SEAWAVE, Feb-2022.

Sander Coene & Chenglong Li (imec-WAVES) were the (shared) winners of the UWB localisation competition at IPIN 2021, see also imec posts on Twitter and Linkedin.
Cedric De Cock & David Plets (imec-WAVES) finished 2nd in the smartphone-based localisation competition at IPIN 2021.
Sander Bastiaens et al. (imec-WAVES) were among the three nominees for the Best Paper Award at IPIN 2021 (out of 123 accepted papers). Read the work here!

Onderzoekers van WAVES hebben voor het eerst de elektromagnetische straling van een commercieel 5G-netwerk in kaart gebracht. Lees hier het artikel dat hierover verscheen in de EOS Bibliotheek (9 Nov 2021)

BioEM2021 local organizing team:

Conferences & Workshops (Upcoming and past)

BioEM 2021	26 Sep - 1 Oct, 2021	Ghent, Belgium	Het Pand + Online
Urban Sound Symposium 2021	19-21 April, 2021		Online
Coock open city: Smart towards a high-quality living environment	12 January, 2021		Online
Urban Sound Symposium 2019	3-5 April, 2019	Ghent, Belgium	Het Pand
11th Speech in Noise Workshop	10-11 January, 2019	Ghent, Belgium	Het Pand

Newest Vacancies

Researcher for indoor location tracking (published 17-01-2022)

Top researcher for physical layer radio channel modelling for 5G networks

Job offering for researcher investigating intelligent agents and recommendation systems