Mikael Gidlund earned his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Mid Sweden University in 2000, his Licentiate of Engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, in 2004, and his Ph.D. from Mid Sweden University in 2005. After a research stay at the University of Bergen, he held engineering and specialist roles at Acreo AB and Nera Networks, working with wireless broadband and next-generation IP-based radio solutions. From 2008 to 2014, he served as Senior Principal Scientist and global coordinator for wireless technologies at ABB Corporate Research. In this role, he led research strategy, innovation initiatives, and major standardization efforts in industrial wireless systems. He was a key contributor to the development and standardization of WirelessHART, the world’s leading wireless communication standard for process automation. Since 2014, Dr. Gidlund has been Professor of Computer Engineering at Mid Sweden University. He also served as a Guest Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, China, from 2020 to 2024.

He has published more than 200 scientific papers and holds over 20 patents in wireless communications. His research focuses on wireless networks, industrial IoT, medium access protocols, and communication security.

Dr. Gidlund has received several distinctions, including the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Industrial IT (2014) and the 2022 IEEE Sweden VT-COM-IT Best Student Journal Paper Award (co-author). He has chaired the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Cloud and Wireless Systems for Industrial Applications and serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. He is frequently invited to speak at international conferences, sharing insights on advanced wireless communication technologies across industrial and other critical application domains.