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)

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

New PostDoc and PhD positions within the framework of the ERC Starting Grant project URENIMOD (Ultrasound for Remote Neuroimaging and Modulation), awarded to Prof. Thomas Tarnaud. (Sept 2024)

Thomas Tarnaud has obtained a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant from the European Research Council. With this grant he can develop his own research project an build his own research team. Congratulations!! Read more about his project URENIMOD. (Sept 2024)

Jorn Schampheleer won the Fingerprinting-Based Localisation Machine Learning Challenge at the COST INTERACT 5th Training School: AI/ML for 6G Communication Networks (and Beyond) held from July 1st to July 4th, 2024, at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) in Castelldefels, Barcelona. (July 2024)

 

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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)

David Toribio won the award for interdisciplinary research at FEARS 2022 with his poster entitled “Radio-Frequency Absorption of a Western Honey Bee in the Near Field of Antennas”. (28 Oct 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