Rate My Professor Jeroen Famaey

Jeroen Famaey is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Antwerp, affiliated with imec and a member of the IDLab research group, where he leads the Perceptive Radio Systems lab. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Ghent University in 2007 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Engineering from Ghent University in 2012. During his Ph.D. research, he focused on computer networks, specifically multimedia networks and video streaming protocols. His research is situated in the broad area of wireless communications and networks, studying the performance of and developing protocols for emerging wireless technologies including IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi (millimeter wave and Terahertz), 3GPP mobile networks (LTE, 5G, NB-IoT), and wireless sensor networks (IEEE 802.15.4 Zigbee, LoRa, Sigfox).

Famaey emphasizes energy efficiency in wireless networks for applications such as virtual reality, drones, Internet of Things, and e-health, with key interests in battery-less IoT devices using energy harvesting, integrated sensing and communications, non-terrestrial networks for ambient IoT, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in 6G, and collaborative intelligence for IoT edge devices. He leads projects including LUNA for low-power ubiquitous non-terrestrial networks, 6GBRAINS for a 6G roadmap, AmbientSwarms for ambient energy-powered robot swarms, and OpenSwarm for energy-aware collaborative swarms with AI. In teaching, he delivers courses such as Computer Networks, Computer and Network Security, Advanced Networking Lab, and Wireless and Mobile Networks in Bachelor and Master programs in Computer Science. With over 6,000 citations on Google Scholar, his influence includes best paper awards at IEEE HONET 2024, WPMC 2022, CIoT 2018, and recognition among the top 2% scientists worldwide by Stanford University in 2022-2023. Key publications feature 'Comparison of LoRaWAN classes and their power consumption' (2017, 218 citations), 'Survey on terahertz nanocommunication and networking: A top-down perspective' (2021, 172 citations), 'Survey on wireless technology trade-offs for the Industrial Internet of Things' (2020, 152 citations), and 'Implementation and validation of an IEEE 802.11ah module for ns-3' (2016, 158 citations). He holds roles such as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks and TPC member for IEEE WCNC.