IEEE VTS YP Seminar: LoS and beyond localization assisted by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Title: LoS and beyond LoS localization Assisted by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Presented by Henk Wymeersch
Professor in Communication Systems
Department of Electrical Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Speaker's Bio: Henk Wymeersch is a Professor in Communication Systems with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is also a Distinguished Research Associate with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven). Prior to joining Chalmers, he was a Postdoctoral Associate during 2006-2009 with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Applied Sciences in 2005 from Ghent University, Belgium. He has served as Associate Editor for several IEEE journals and also as General Chair of the 2015 International Conference on Localization and GNSS. Awards include an ERC Starting Grant and a Chalmers supervision award. He currently leads the CROSSNET team at Chalmers.