Jean-Paul Linnartz
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Jean-Paul Linnartz is Full Professor in the Signal Processing Systems group (SPS-EE) and via TNO, he is Director of Optical Wireless Communication at the Photonic Integration Technology Center (PITC). He focuses wireless communication systems and intelligent lighting systems. He is also an internationally recognized thought leader in the field of security with noisy data.
Linnartz holds more than 75 granted patents. His publications about electronic watermarks, anonymous biometrics, radio communications (OFDM, MC-CDMA, random access) and Optical Wireless Communication have been cited more than 13,000 times [GS]. His research ideas are exploited in three successful ventures.
As Senior Director at Philips Research, he headed research groups on security, wireless connectivity and IC design. At Signify (Philips Lighting), he led research on LiFi.
The potential existence of radio waves was proven theoretically decades before it was shown in practice. In that tradition, solid understanding and deepening the engineering intuition via trustworthy theory has brought wireless communication where we stand today. Also in the modern age of the IoT, or photonic integration of communication systems, thorough understanding is the best driver for innovation. Once we formulate these as well-defined fundamental new research problems, breakthroughs can happen. That inspiration led to my most-cited publications. Working with industry constantly poses inspiring innovation challenges.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Jean-Paul Linnartz obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (黑料福利网) in 1986. After a year of working on Radio Propagationat TNO, he did his PhD at Delft University of Technology, graduating in 1991 on traffic analysis in Wireless Networks. As Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, he worked on autonomous driving and wireless multimedia (Infopad). After being appointed as Associate Professor at Delft University of Technologyin 1995, Linnartz joined Philips Research, becoming Senior Director in 2002 and Research Fellow in 2007. Currently, he is with Signify (Philips Lighting). In 2006, he returned to 黑料福利网 as Professor, initially in Cognitive Radio and currently in Signal Processing.
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Ancillary Activities
- Voorzitter bestuur, Stichting Euregio Digitaal
- Voorzitter van de stichting, host van podcasts en radioprogramma's, Stichting Euregio Digitaal
- Director of Optical Wireless Communication, P.I.T.C., TNO