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RWTH Aachen University
Chair of Distributed Signal Processing

Short biography: Haris Gačanin (IEEE F’20) received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical engineering from the University of Sarajevo in 2000. In 2005 and 2008, respectively, he received MSc and Ph.D. from Tohoku University in Japan. He was with Tohoku University from 2008 until 2010, first as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow and later as an Assistant Professor. He joined Alcatel-Lucent Bell (now Nokia Bell) in 2010 as a Physical-layer Expert and later moved to Nokia Bell Labs as Department Head. Since April 2020, he has joined RWTH Aachen University. He is the head of the Chair for Distributed Signal Processing and co-director of the Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems.

Research interests: Prof. Gačanin’s professional interests are related to broad areas of digital signal processing and artificial intelligence with applications in wireless communications.

Honors and awards: Prof. Gačanin is a fellow of IEEE and a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society with numerous scientific publications (journals, conferences, and patents) and invited/tutorial talks. He is a recipient of several Nokia innovation awards, IEICE Communications Society Best Paper Award in 2021, IEICE Communication System Study Group Best Paper Award (joint 2014, 2015, 2017), The 2013 Alcatel-Lucent Award of Excellence, the 2012 KDDI Foundation Research Award, the 2009 KDDI Foundation Research Grant Award, the 2008 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers, the 2005 Active Research Award in Radio Communications, 2005 Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2005-Fall) Student Paper Award from IEEE VTS Japan Chapter and the
2004 Institute of IEICE Society Young Researcher Award. Furthermore, he served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, associate editor of IEICE Transactions on Communications and IET Communications.

Anke Schmeink

Tobias Gemmeke

Lutz Eckstein

RWTH Aachen University
Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge, Lehrstuhlinhaber und Institutsleiter

Research Interests: Automated and connected vehicles, Safety assurance of AD, ADAS and HMI

Martin Henze

Tobias Recker

Christian Wietfeld

Communication Networks, TU Dortmund

https://cni.etit.tu-dortmund.de/

Research Interests:

Design and Performance Evaluation of Mobile and Wireless Networks (5G & 6G)
Cyber-Physical Networking (for Smart Grids, Rescue Robotics, Industry 4.0)
Vehicular Networking (Road traffic, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Electric Vehicles)

Key Achievements:

Principal Investigator (PI) in 50+ research projects, thereof in 11 projects with management
responsibility as Project Coordinator, Project Speaker, Scientific Manager or Member of Board
450+ publications, 7500+ Citations, H-Index 42 (according to Google Scholar, May 2023)
18 International Best-Paper Awards
3 spin-offs