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The Department of Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology in the Faculty of Applied Engineering is looking for a full-time (100%) Doctoral Scholarship Holder in the field of Near-Field Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) for Future 6G Wireless Networks.
The offered position contributes to the Horizon Europe QUEST-6G project, which introduces a framework combining reconfigurable intelligent systems, XL antenna arrays, new transmission modes, and quantum technologies to realize a multi-band, multi-functional 6G vision.
Position
You will:
- Conduct high-quality research under the supervision of Prof. Raf Berkvens and Prof. Jeroen Famaey as a member of the IDLab research group at imec and the University of Antwerp.
- Collaborate closely with other researchers at IDLab.
- Develop novel theoretical frameworks and signal processing techniques (traditional and/or AI-based) for Near-Field ISAC in distributed cell-free 6G networks.
- Investigate the fundamental principles of hybrid Near-Field/Far-Field wave propagation and beamforming, exploiting the spatial degrees of freedom provided by spherical wavefronts to jointly optimize communication and sensing performance.
- Design and analyse new algorithms for: Beamforming, Beam focusing, Localization, Sensing using XL and distributed reconfigurable antenna arrays
- Enable simultaneous: User communication, Target detection, Localization, Tracking, Environmental sensing
- Utilize IDLab's world-class research infrastructure, including the 6G Perceptive Radio Lab, to conduct ISAC experiments with Software Defined Radios and programmable beamformers across multiple frequency bands.
- Write detailed technical evaluation reports on developed solutions, implementations, and experiments.
- Publish research in leading conferences and journals in wireless communications and/or embedded computing.
- Carry out a limited number of teaching and research support tasks for the Department of Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology (maximum 20% of working time).
