Biography

Emil Björnson is a Professor of Wireless Communication at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is an IEEE Fellow, Digital Futures Fellow, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He has a podcast and YouTube channel called Wireless Future. His research focuses on multi-antenna communications, sensing, and radio resource management, using methods from communication theory, signal processing, and machine learning. He has authored four textbooks and published 70 simulation code packages.

Prof. Björnson has received Early Achievement Awards from EURASIP, the IEEE Communications Society, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. His papers have received the 2018 and 2022 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Awards, the 2019 IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2024 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize.

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Emil Björnson (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in engineering mathematics from Lund University, Sweden, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2011.

From 2012 to 2014, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPELEC, France. From 2014 to 2021, he was a faculty member at Linköping University, Sweden. He has been a Full Professor of Wireless Communication at KTH since 2020 and currently leads the Department of Communication Systems. 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). His research is focused on multi-antenna communications, sensing, and radio resource management, using methods from communication theory, signal processing, and machine learning. He has performed MIMO research since 2006. His papers have received more than 45 000 citations. He has filed more than 30 patent applications. He is recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He co-hosts the podcast Wireless Future and has a popular YouTube channel with the same name.

Prof. Björnson is a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, a Digital Futures Fellow, and an SSF Future Research Leader. He has received the 2018 and 2022 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Awards in Wireless Communications, the 2019 EURASIP Early Career Award, the 2019 IEEE ComSoc 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, the 2021 IEEE ComSoc RCC Early Achievement Award, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Paper Award, the 2024 IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize, and the 2026 EURASIP Athanasios Papoulis Award.