Henk Wymeersch is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Signals and Systems at Chalmers University, Sweden. 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). Henk Wymeersch obtained the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering/applied sciences in 2005 from Ghent University, Belgium. In 2005-2006, Henk Wymeersch was a postdoctoral fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation at MIT, In 2006, he won the Alcatel Bell Scientific Award for his Ph.D. thesis. He is a member of the IEEE, associate editor for IEEE Communication Letters, for the Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications, and author of Iterative Receiver Design (Cambridge University Press, August 2007). His research interests include algorithm design for wireless transmission, statistical inference and iterative processing. In 2009, he was part of a team that won the L3 Communications Prize at the 2009 Soldier Design Competition, for the practical demonstration of cooperative ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) localization.


Potential students: I am always interested in supervising strong students at the Master and PhD level. If you are interested, please apply to Chalmers University through the appropriate channels. Once you have been accepted at Chalmers, please feel free contact me.

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