Geert Heijenk

I am a full professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, leading the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems chair, of the University of Twente (UT). I received my M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Twente, the Netherlands in 1988, worked as a research staff member at the same university and received my Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 1995. I have also held a part-time position as researcher at KPN research, the Netherlands, from 1989 until 1991. From 1995 until 2003, I was with Ericsson EuroLab Netherlands, first as a senior strategic engineer, and from 1999 as a research department manager. From 1998 until 2003 I was also a part-time senior researcher at the University of Twente. From 2015 until 2018 I have been program director of the Computer Science and Internet Science & Technology bachelor and master programs of University of Twente. In 2011, I was a visiting professor at INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris. In 2002, I was a visiting associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. In 1992, I have performed part of my Ph.D. research at the University of Pennsylvania. My area of research is Wireless Networks & Mobility. I am particularly interested in architectures, algorithms, and protocols for Cellular, Ad-hoc, and Vehicular Networks.

Recent Highlights

• Co-initiator of the Centre for Networked Systems and Intelligence (EDGE)
• General co-chair IFIP IoT 2021
  
• Best paper award (with Aashik Chandromohan) for the paper "Modelling activation of congestion control for estimating channel load in vehicular networks", at Wireless Days 2021.
• Appointed chair holder of the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems group.
• Keynote presentation at the 17th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (IFIP WWIC), June 17 & 18, 2019.
  
• Keynote presentation at IEEE Wireless Days, Manchester, April 24 - 26, 2019.
• Appointed full professor in Wireless Networks & Mobility as of July 1, 2017.
• Invited presentation at IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Communications, Halmstad, November 2, 2016
• Best paper award (with Bernd Meijerink and Mitra Baratchi) for the paper "An efficient geographical addressing scheme for the Internet", at IFIP WWIC 2016.
• Best paper award (with Mozhdeh Gholibeigi) for the paper “Analysis of Multi-Hop Broadcast in Vehicular
  Ad Hoc Networks: a Reliability Perspective”, at Wireless Days 2016.

Courses

• Network Systems (a full quarter, 15 credits course on networking)
  
• Cyber-Physical Systems (15 credits minor module)
  
• Mobile & Wireless Networking
• Ad Hoc Networks
• Advanced Networking
  

Ph.D. students

• Fatemeh Marzani (with Maarten van Steen)
  Privacy-preserving mobility monitoring
  
• Khalil Ben Fredj (with Yanqiu Huang and Paul Havinga)
  V2X communications for smart bikes
  
• Syllas Rangel (with Suzan Bayhan)
  Energy efficient resource allocation for 5G radio access networks and beyond
• Aashik Chandramohan
  Modelling communications for cooperative automated driving
  
• Francesco Acciani (with Anton Stoorvogel and Paolo Frasca)
  Control and communication for automated driving (Phd.D.-Thesis finished)
  
• Bernd Meijerink
  Internet-wide geocasting (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)
  
• Mozhdeh Gholibeigi
  Reliable broadcasting in vehicular networks (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)
  
• Sarwar Morshed
  MAC layer for energy-harvesting sensor systems (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)
  
• Stefan Dietzel (with Frank Kargl)
  Resilient in-network aggregation for Vehicular Networks (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)
  
• Martijn van Eenennaam
  Scalable beaconing for cooperative adaptive cruise control (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)
  
• Wouter Klein Wolterink
  Location-based forwarding in vehicular networks (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)
  
• Fei Liu
  Context discovery in ad-hoc networks (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)
• Desi Dimitrova
  Analysing uplink scheduling in mobile networks - A flow-level perspective (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)
• Rachid Ait Yaiz
  QoS-enabled scheduling in Bluetooth (Ph.D.-Thesis finished)

Professional Activities

• Steering Committee member of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference
• Steering Committee member of the International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
• Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (until 2015)
• Vice-chair of COST action IC0906 "Wireless Networks for Moving Objects", WiNeMO (until 2014)
  
• Guest editor of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Vehicular Communications and Networking
• General co-chair IFIP IoT 2021
• TPC chair of the 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2014)
• TPC chair of  Med-Hoc-Net 2012
• General chair of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2012
• General chair of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2011
  
• Advisory Board member of the 11th International Conference on Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems, ITST-2011
• General chair of the Joint ERCIM eMobility and MobiSense Workshop 2013
• General chair of the Joint ERCIM eMobility and MobiSense Workshop 2012
  
• Program chair of the 5th ERCIM workshop on eMobility, 2011
• Program chair of the 4th ERCIM workshop on eMobility, 2010
• General chair of the 7th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2009
• Program chair of the 3rd ERCIM workshop on eMobility, 2009
• TPC chair of the 2nd ERCIM workshop on eMobility, 2008
• TPC chair of the 6th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, WWIC 2008
• TPC member of numerous conferences

Edited Conference Proceedings

Recent Publications

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Contact

prof. dr. ir. Geert Heijenk
University of Twente
Design and Analysis of Communication Systems
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands

Phone: +31 53 4895693
Email: geert.heijenk [at] utwente.nl
Room: Zi-5063

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