Emil Björnson

Emil Björnson is a Full Professor of Wireless Communication at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He received an M.S. degree in engineering mathematics from Lund University, Sweden, in 2007, and a Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from KTH in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he was a post-doc at the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPELEC, France. From 2014 to 2021, he held different professor positions at Linköping University, Sweden. He was a Visiting Full Professor at KTH in 2020-2021, before obtaining a tenured position in 2022.

He has authored the textbooks Optimal Resource Allocation in Coordinated Multi-Cell Systems (2013), Massive MIMO Networks: Spectral, Energy, and Hardware Efficiency (2017), Foundations of User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO (2021), and Introduction to Multiple Antenna Communications and Reconfigurable Surfaces (2024). He is dedicated to reproducible research and has made a large amount of simulation code publicly available. He performs research on MIMO communications, radio resource allocation, machine learning for communications, and energy efficiency. He has been an associate editor for multiple IEEE transactions and magazines.

He has performed MIMO research for 18 years, his papers have received more than 28000 citations, and he has filed more than 20 patent applications. He is a host of the podcast Wireless Future and has a popular YouTube channel with the same name. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, a Digital Futures Fellow, and an SSF Future Research Leader. He has received the 2014 Outstanding Young Researcher Award from IEEE ComSoc EMEA, the 2015 Ingvar Carlsson Award, the 2016 Best Ph.D. Award from EURASIP, the 2018 and 2022 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Awards in Wireless Communications, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Paper Award, the 2019 EURASIP Early Career Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award, the 2020 Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award, the 2020 CTTC Early Achievement Award, and the 2021 IEEE ComSoc RCC Early Achievement Award. He also co-authored papers that received Best Paper Awards at the conferences, including WCSP 2009, the IEEE CAMSAP 2011, the IEEE SAM 2014, the IEEE WCNC 2014, the IEEE ICC 2015, and WCSP 2017.

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