VUB / ELEC Department - Team A

Physical communication, estimation of parameters in distributed systems and laboratory of marine acoustics

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. ir. Leo Van BiesenProf. Lea Van Biesen (picture)

  • Identification of distributed systems.
  • Incorporation of knowledge engineering in complex measurement problems.
  • Application of information theory in data telecommunication by wire problems (xDSL).
  • Modelling and Identification of transmission lines and wireless channels (LOS and NLOS).
  • Wireless local loop.
  • Signal processing techniques related to measurement in Earth Science problems.
  • Development of PC and PXI based instrumentation.
  • Underwater acoustic studies.
  • Environmental G.I.S. development.
  • 4G communication.
  • Navigation techniques, including but not limited by, applications for Location Based Services

 

Introduction to Team A

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The activities of team A directly related to fundamental electricity, deal with the set-up of computer controlled measurement systems, the design of new intelligent instruments, the processing of the measured data (DSP and algorithmic treatment) and the implementation of A.I.- techniques in instruments for the automatic interpretation of the acquired measurements.

The technical applications areas are quite diverse and cover areas in the field of electrical and electronic systems, but a lot of special care is also given to earth science applications.

This team is also active in telecommunication projects and studies, which deal with voice coded transmissions (telephony) and with robust coded digital transmission (ADSL, HDSL, VDSL). Communication channels are modelled, both for their electrical properties and noise behaviour and with respect to the carried information (Information Theory).

Moreover, in the field of underwater acoustics important research projects are developed since 1985. Fundamental as well as applied research is carried out in the field of the modelling of marine systems, marine acoustics, sub bottom profiling and sediment classification.
Marine environmental studies based on GIS-techniques are of prime importance in this group as well.

Prof. Dr. ir. L. Van Biesen is the Belgian delegate in the board of IMEKO since 1993 and chairman of the Technical Committee TC-7 on Measurement Science since 1994, up to 2000. He has been vice-chairman of the Technical Committee TC-19 on Environmental Measurements since 1999, President-Elect of IMEKO (2000-2003) and President of IMEKO (2003-2006). His laboratory is, of course, member of BEMEKO.

Phone: +32 (0)2 629 29 43

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Team A - Members

Hernan Cordova (Picture)Hernan Cordova was born in Guayaquil, December 19, 1977. In October 1999 he obtained graduated as a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil. In august 2004, he finished at the same university a master degree program in  Tele-communications Management. Since september 2004, he is going towards the PhD at the ELEC department being supervised by Prof. Van Biesen.

His main interests are: Digital Signal processing and Fixed and Mobile Wireless Communications.

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Carine Neus (Picture)Carine Neus was born in Anderlecht, Belgium, on March 16, 1983. She graduated as an Electrical Engineer (Burgerlijk Elektrotechnisch Ingenieur), option
Telecommunication in July 2004 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Carine joined the department ELEC as a research assistant in October 2004 and obtained her PhD in March 2011. She is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at ELEC.

Her main research interest is on the modelling of telephone lines and the estimation of the channel capacity of xDSL lines (ADSL, VDSL,…).

Phone: +32 (0)2 629 29 79

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Taka Yoshizawa (Picture)Taka Yoshizawa was born in Nagoya, Japan, on 22nd April, 1961. He has total of 24 years of industry experience, much of it in 2G/3G cellular infrastructure product design and development at Motorola in the US, where he gained experience in most of the engineering work involved with the lifecycle of mobile
infrastructure system. After moving to Belgium in 2006, he joined Technicolor (former Thomson) in Edegem as a System Architect for the femtocell project. Since 2011, he is a Senior System and Standard Engineer at Ubiquisys Ltd in the UK. Since 2007, he has been actively contributing to 3GPP, Broadband Forum, and Femto Forum for femtocell related standardization activities. In 2009, he won the inaugural Femto Forum Award for the recognition for his contribution to femtocell standardization. He has filed ~10 patents (most of them still pending) in both US and Belgium for telecom related technologies.
He has a BS degree of Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MS Telecommunication from Southern Methodist Univ. in 1992 and 2002, respectively. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. under the guidance of Prof. Van Biesen. His research interest is next generation mobile technology, such as Relay Node, Heterogeneous Network, and Femtocell.

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