Keynote Speakers
Martin Klepal
I have been a post-doctoral researcher in the Centre for Adaptive Wireless Systems at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland since September 2003. I received Bachelor, Master's and Doctoral degrees in Radioelectronics from the Department of Electromagnetic Field Theory, School of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. From 1998 until August 2003 I was a member of the anechoic and EMC antenna chamber research group at Czech Technical University, working toward my Ph.D. degree. I took up a research fellowship at Alcatel Bell in Belgium in 1999 and at the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland in 2002. My research interests are in radio propagation modelling and self-managed sensor networks. I am the author or co-author of over 30 journal and conference publications and co-founder of I-Prop Ltd, a radio propagation modelling Campus Company, bought by StrixSystems in 2003. I received the URSI Young Scientist Award in Maastricht in 2002, and an award from the Czech Republic Branch of IEE in 2002. My recent work is on radio propagation modelling for a ubiquitous computing simulator and game-theoretic approach to self-management of sensor network.
Georges Gielen
Georges G.E. GIELEN received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1986 to 1990, he was appointed as a research assistant by the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research for carrying out his Ph.D. research in the ESAT-MICAS laboratory of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1990, he was appointed as a postdoctoral research assistant and visiting lecturer at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley. From 1991 to 1993, he was a postdoctoral research assistant of the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research at the ESAT-MICAS laboratory of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1993, he was appointed as a tenure research associate of the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research and at the same time as an assistant professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1995 he promoted to associate professor at the same university.
Karel Renckens
In Perth (Australia) and Munich (Germany) he helped building the first Metropolitan Area Networks for Alcatel. In co-operation with several telecom operators he was a keyplayer in setting up a European-wide ATM-network. In 1997 he moved to Philips / NXP Semconductors where he managed several projects in settopboxes for digital TV in Latin America, eink-based digital reader devices and finaly NFC, the contactless chip technology becoming the payment method of the future.
Driven by endless inspirations, he started his own company around mid 2008, co-operating closely with research centres.
