Doctoral advisor Thomas Kailath | Academic advisor Thomas Kailath | |
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Fields Array Signal Processing, Wireless Communication Institutions University of Luxembourg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Notable awards 2014 Cedergren Medal, H.T. Cedergren Foundation for outstanding contributions to electrical engineering;
2013 Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Letters;
2011 Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society for contributions in array signal processing and wireless communication;
2010 Meritorious Service Award, EURASIP;
2009 A first recipient of the European Research Council Advanced Research Grant;
2004 IEEE Fellow for contributions to antenna signal processing and wireless communications;
2001 Co-author of paper awarded IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Award;
1993 IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Award Alma maters Stanford University, Linköping University Known for Space-division multiple access, MIMO | ||
Björn Ottersten (born 1961) is a Swedish educator, researcher, and electrical engineer who is the co-inventor of Space/Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) technology. He has made contributions in array signal processing and wireless communications and has received many notable awards in these areas. Currently, he is a Professor of Signal Processing at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, and the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and EURASIP.
From 2012, he has been an advisor to the European Commission, serving as the European Digital Champion of Luxembourg. He also serves as a Board Member of the Swedish Research Council, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Signal Processing journal.
Biography
He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, in 1986. In 1989 he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. His advisor at Stanford was Thomas Kailath.