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).

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News

Waves team building day in Bruges, April 2022.

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

Chenglong Li is winner of two awards:
- Best paper award URSI Benelux Forum, 2nd 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

Conferences & Workshops (Upcoming and past)

BioEM 2027 June 13 -18, 2027 Gdansk, Poland
EuCAP 2027 April 18 -23, 2027 Düssledorf, Germany
Biennal Castle Meeting: New trends on Rock, Paleo and Environmental magnetism June 26 - July 4, 2026 Collognes-La-Rouge, France