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Educational and Professional
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Education
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1996-2000: Ph.D. in
Applied Sciences
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, May 2000
"Signal Processing Algorithms for CDMA-Based Wireless
Communications"
promotor: Prof. Marc Moonen
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1991-1996: M.Sc. in
Electrical Engineering
"Option Electronics - Automation and Computer Systems"
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, July 1996
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1985-1991:
Mathematics III - Sciences I
Koninklijk Atheneum I Hasselt, Belgium, July 1991
Long Visits
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Visiting Researcher, SPinCOM (Prof. G.
Giannakis), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN, January 2011–February 2011.
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Visiting Researcher, SPinCOM (Prof. G.
Giannakis), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN, January 2010–February 2010.
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Visiting Researcher
and Instructor, SPinCOM (Prof. G. Giannakis), University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, March - June 2001 / September
2001 - June 2002.
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Visiting Researcher,
SARG (Prof. A. Paulraj), Stanford University, Stanford, CA,
August - September 1998.
Employment
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2007-present:
Associate Professor
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer
Science
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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2003-2007: Assistant
Professor
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer
Science
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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2000-2003:
Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research -
Flanders
Department of Electrical Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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1996-2000: Research
Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders
Department of Electrical Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Selected Awards and Grants |
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Selected Awards
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Co-author of paper awarded a Best Student Paper Award at the
InternationalWorkshop on Cognitive Information Processing
(CIP 2010).
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Best
Paper Award paper at the International Conference on Sensor
Device Technologies and Applications (SENSORDEVICES 2010).
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IEEE Senior Member
grade, 2005.
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IEEE Signal
Processing Society Best Paper Award 2005 for “Blind and
Semi-Blind Equalization for Generalized Space-Time Block
Codes,” TSP, October 2002.
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IEEE Signal
Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award 2002 for
“Deterministic
Blind Modulation-Induced Source Separation for Digital
Wireless Communications,” TSP, January 2001.
Grants
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FP7
Project Grant, “Autonomous, Self-Learning, Optimal and
Complete Underwater Systems (NOPTILUS),” co-principal
investigator, 2011-2014 (4M euro).
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STW Autonomous Sensor
Systems Grant, “Dependable Distributed Sensor Systems,”
coprincipal investigator, 2010-2015 (1M euro).
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NWO VICI Grant,
“Signal Processing for Self-Organizing Wireless Networks,”
principal
investigator, 2009-2014 (1.25M euro).
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STW Green and Smart
Process Technology Grant, “Product Quality Control Using
Smart
PEAS-Based UWB-Technology,” co-principal investigator,
2007-2011 (600K euro).
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NWO VIDI Grant,
“ReliableWireless Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels,” principal investigator, 2004-2009 (600K euro).
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FWO Research Project
Grant, “Design of Efficient Communication Techniques for Wireless Time-DispersiveMulti-UserMIMO Systems,”
co-investigator, 2002-2005 (250K euro).
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FWO Study Leave
Grant, SPinCOM (Prof. G. Giannakis), University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, March–June 2001.
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FWO Study Leave
Grant, SARG (Prof. A. Paulraj), Stanford University,
Stanford, CA,
August–September 1998.
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FWO Postdoctoral
Scholarship, 2000–2003.
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FWO Doctoral
Scholarship, 1996–2000.
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Teaching |
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Signal Processing for
Communications, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 2003–2004 (with A.-J. van der Veen), 2004–2005,
2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2007 – 2008, 2008–2009, 2009–2010,
2010–2011.
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Digital Signal
Processing, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The
Netherlands, 2004 – 2005 (with P. Dewilde and B. Jeffs),
2005–2006 (with P. Dewilde), 2006–2007 (with P.
Dewilde), 2007–2008 (with P. Dewilde), 2008–2009 (with A.-J.
van der Veen), 2009-2010. (with A.-J. van der Veen),
2010-2011. (with A.-J. van der Veen).
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Signal Processing,
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands,
2005–2006
(with A.-J. van der Veen).
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Signals and Systems,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2001–2002.
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BEST Summer Course on
Digital Signal Processing, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Summer 2002.
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Professional Activities and
Positions |
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Committee Assignments
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Past Chair of the IEEE Signal
Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (January 2011 -
Dec. 2011).
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Chair of the IEEE Signal
Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (January 2009 -
Dec. 2010).
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Vice Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and
Networking Technical Committee (January 2007 - December 2008).
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Member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications
Technical Committee (January 2002 - December 2006).
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Advisory Board Member Campus do Mar (October
2010-present).
TU Committees
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Member of the
Examencommissie ET (October 2008 - present)
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Member of the MSc
Aanstellingscommissie ME (October 2008 - present)
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Member of the
Commissie Facultaire Leerstoelenstrategie EWI (2006 –
2012)
Editorships
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Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal
Processing (July 2004 present).
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Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (April 2006 - March
2010).
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Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications (April 2002 -June 2006).
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Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (July
2001 - June 2005).
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Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in
Signal Processing, Object Tracking and Monitoring Using
Advanced Signal Processing Techniques, 2011.
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Guest Editor, Elsevier Physical
Communications, Compressive Sensing in Communications, 2011.
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Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics
in Signal Processing, Soft Detection for
Wireless Transmission, 2011.
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Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and
Networking, Interference Management in Wireless Communication
Systems: Theory and Applications, 2010.
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Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
Reliable Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels, 2006.
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Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing,
Improved CDMA Detection Techniques for Future Wireless Systems, 2005.
Conference Organization
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General Co-Chair, IEEE
Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications
(SPAWC 2009).
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Technical Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing
Advances in Wireless Communications
(SPAWC 2009).
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Area Chair, Signal Processing for Communications, EURASIP
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008).
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Track Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor
and Mobile Radio Communications
(PIMRC 2010).
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Vice Track Chair, Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar
2011).
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Special Session Organizer, Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar
2010, Asilomar
2011).
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Special Session Organizer, IEEE Workshop on Computational
Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2009, CAMSAP 2011).
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Special Session Organizer, International Workshop on
Cognitive Information Processing (CIP 2010).
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Special Session Organizer, IEEE International Conference on
Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2008).
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Special Session Organizer, IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing (ICASSP 2004).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2003, ICASSP 2004, ICASSP
2005, ICASSP 2006,
ICASSP 2007, ICASSP 2008, ICASSP 2009, ICASSP 2010).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on
Signal Processing Advances
in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2003, SPAWC 2004, SPAWC 2005, SPAWC 2006, SPAWC 2007, SPAWC 2008, SPAWC 2009, SPAWC 2010).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, ITG/IEEE Workshop on
Smart Antennas (WSA 2007, WSA 2008, WSA 2009, WSA 2010).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, International
Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom 2010).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, International
Workshop on Cognitive Information
Processing (CIP 2010).
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Member of Technical ProgramCommittee, IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference (VTC Fall
2004, VTC-Spring 2006, VTC-Spring 2009).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, ACM Cognitive Radio
Networks Workshop (ACM CoRoNet 2009).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International
Conference on Communications
(ICC 2008).
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Member of Technical ProgramCommittee, IEEE International
Conference on Ultra Wideband
(ICUWB 2008, ICUWB 2010).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, International
Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA 2007).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global
Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2004, GLOBECOM 2006).
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Member of Technical Program Committee, EURASIP European
Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO 2006).
Collaborations
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Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: cognitive radio, spectrum sensing,
radar.
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Holst Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands: UWB ranging and
localization.
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TNO Defence Security and Safety, The Hague, The Netherlands:
underwater communications.
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SOWNet Technologies, Delft, The Netherlands: ad-hoc networks
for UWB.
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University of Minnesota (Prof. G. B. Giannakis): spread
spectrum communications.
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Michigan Technological University (Prof. Z. Tian): cognitive
radio and compressive sampling.
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University of Pisa (Prof. V. Lottici): cognitive radio and
UWB communications.
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University of Perugia (Prof. P. Banelli): communications over
rapidly time-varying channels.
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Eurecom Institute (Prof. D. Slock): multi-user MIMO
communications with quantized channel feedback.
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Graz University of Technology (Prof. K. Witrisal):
noncoherent receivers for UWB.
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Prof. W. Dehaene): digital
transceiver design for UWB.
Invited Lectures
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Smart Mobile Process Environment Actuators
and Sensors - Smart PEAS, The Sense of Contact, Zeist,
The Netherlands, April 7, 2011.
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Multi-Carrier Acoustic Underwater
Communications, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, March
29, 2011
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Localization Using Multi-Dimensional
Scaling, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, January 20, 2011.
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Sparsity-Cognizant Total Least-Squares for
Perturbed Compressive Sampling, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, California, November 4, 2010.
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Ultra Wideband Technology for Communications
and Localization, Septentrio Satellite Navigation, Leuven,
Belgium, September 3, 2010.
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Direction Estimation Using Compressive
Sampling, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
January 26, 2010.
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Energy Efficient Distributed Spectrum
Sensing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
January 7, 2010.
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Trends in Signal Processing for Wireless Communications,
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, October 19, 2009.
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Distributed Compressive Wide-Band Spectrum Sensing,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February
18, 2009.
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Joint
Dynamic Resource Allocation and Waveform Adaptation in
Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE Signal Processing Chapter
Benelux Symposium on Sofware Defined and Cognitive Radios,
Brussels, Belgium, December 12, 2008.
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Ultra
Wideband Localization: The Road to Accuracy and Robustness, ICT Kring Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, December 1, 2008.
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Low-Complexity Channel Equalization and Estimation for
Mobile OFDM, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey,
November 7, 2007.
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Trends in Wireless Communications, Boğaziçi University,
Istanbul, Turkey, November 7,
2007.
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Trends in Wireless Communications, TNO, The Hague, The
Netherlands, June 27, 2007.
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Low-Complexity Channel Equalization and Estimation for
Mobile OFDM, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain,
June 27, 2006.
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Low-Complexity Channel Equalization and Estimation for
Mobile OFDM, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki,
Finland, April 5, 2006.
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Low-Complexity Channel Equalization and Estimation for
Mobile OFDM, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven,
Belgium, March 24, 2006.
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Low-Complexity Channel Equalization and Estimation for
Mobile OFDM, Université
Catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, February 23, 2006.
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Reliable Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels,
Stanford University, Stanford, California, November 12,
2005.
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Reliable Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels,
Philips Natlab, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 22,
2005.
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Equalization of Doubly-Selective Channels, Philips Natlab,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, January 30, 2004.
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Signal Processing Techniques for Communications over
Doubly-Selective Channels, International Workshop on
Advanced Algorithms for Structured Problems in Signal
Processing, Cadzand, The Netherlands, June 22–28, 2003.
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Signal Processing Techniques for Communications over
Doubly-Selective Channels, University of Perugia, Perugia,
Italy, June 11, 2003.
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Orthogonal Multiple Access over Time- and
Frequency-Selective Channels, Eurecom Institute,
Sophia-Antipolis, France, May 26, 2003.
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Orthogonal Multiple Access over Time- and
Frequency-Selective Channels, Delft University of
Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, March 14, 2003.
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Orthogonal Multiple Access over Time- and
Frequency-Selective Channels, Ghent University, Ghent,
Belgium, October 7, 2002.
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Chip-Interleaving and Block-Spreading for Multiple Access
over Time-and Frequency -Selective Channels, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 6–7, 2002.
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Multiple Access Regardless of Time- and Frequency-Selective
Channels, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 19,
2002.
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Multiple Access Regardless of Time-and Frequency-Selective
Channels, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
October 3, 2001.
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MUI-Free
Receiver for a Shift-Orthogonal Quasi-Synchronous DS-CDMA
System Based on Block Spreading in Frequency-Selective
Fading, University ofMinnesota,Minneapolis, Minnesota,
March 24, 2001.
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Adaptive Multi-User Algorithms, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium,
January 20, 1999. 25.
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Deterministic Blind Modulation-Induced
Source Separation, DIMES Mini-Symposium: Statistical Array
And Signal Processing, Delft University of Technology,
Delft, Netherlands, January 11, 1999.
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Multi-User Detection in Frequency-Selective Fading Channels.
One-Day Seminar: Digital Signal Processing and Wireless
Communications, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven,
Belgium, May 28, 1999.
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Echo
Cancellation for DMT-Based Systems, Alcatel Bell, Antwerp,
Belgium, February 12, 1999.
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Adaptive Blind Direct Symbol Estimation for Multi-User
Communication, Stanford University, Stanford, California,
September 11, 1998.
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Equalization Techniques for DMT-Based Systems, Alcatel Bell,
Antwerp, Belgium, July 2, 1998.
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Outside the Academia
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