Henk Wymeersch, Full Professor at Communication Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering has been elevated to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, Fellow. This award is very prestigious in the scientific community.
The election of Fellows is based on contributions to scientific development, and that its applications are significant to society. Through his work focusing on radio localization and sensing, Henk Wymeersch has been elevated to IEEE Fellow.
Henk, congratulations! How does it feel and what does it mean for you to be elevated to IEEE Fellow?
“I am of course delighted to be elevated to IEEE Fellow. My research career has been an amazing and serendipitous journey, thanks to many excellent collaborators, postdocs, and students, but I never imagined receiving such an honour. I see it as a recognition by the scientific community of the quality and impact of the research we have contributed with at Chalmers and with my collaborators. Moreover, I hope that this elevation will provide additional visibility to our work at Chalmers and will lead to new opportunities,” says Henk Wymeersch.
Henk Wymeersch’s research on "radio localization and sensing" deals with positioning of devices such as phones or radios on vehicles and tracking of passive objects like pedestrians or the body of vehicles using wireless communication signals, in particular 5G and future 6G communication systems. Henk also conducts research in FORCE on fibre-optical communication.
Other Full Professors in the Communication Systems group who have previously been elected to IEEE Fellow, and still active, are Erik Agrell and Erik Ström.
IEEE was established 1884 when electricity began to become a major influence in society. There was one major established electrical industry, the telegraph, which since the 1840s had come to connect the world with a data communications system faster than the speed of transportation.
- Full Professor, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks, Electrical Engineering