AARHUS UNIVERSITY, DENMARK
Ramjee Prasad
Dr. Ramjee Prasad, Fellow IEEE, IET, IETE, and WWRF, is a Professor of Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation (FT4BI) in the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark. He is the Founder President of the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC). He is also the Founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India, established in 2009. GISFI has the purpose of increasing of the collaboration between European, Indian, Japanese, North-American and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas.
He has been honored by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016. He is Honorary Professor of University of Cape Town, South Africa, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
He has received Ridderkorset af Dannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and education.
He has published more than 50 books, 1000 plus journal and conference publications, more than 15 patents, over 130 PhD Graduates and larger number of Masters (over 250). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves.
Albena Mihovska
She is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Department of Business Development and Technologies, where she is with the CTIF Global Capsule and MBIT research group. Her main activities relate to research in the area of smart dense connectivity and related applications; 5G ultradense access networks, Internet of Things technologies for healthcare and smart grid, and most recently, holographic communications. In addition, she focuses on aspects of digital innovations and their impact on business. She was the leader of the local research team within the FP6 EU project WINNER that had a total funding for Aalborg University of 535.000,00 EUR and brought together the most powerful industrial and academic international players at the time in a joint effort to design a new wireless generation air interface, which laid the foundations for the LTE and LTE-A standards. During 1999-2001, she was appointed to the EU-funded project under FP4 ACTS, as part of the technical team. During 2001-2005, she was the Technical Manager of the EU-funded under FP5 project PRODEMIS, which defined a roadmap for the wireless future up to 2010. During 2004-2009, she was the project coordinator of the EU-funded under FP6 project SIDEMIRROR. All three projects were of the special support type of instrument and had as the main objective to concentrate the European research effort by structuring and integrating the results/achievements of the IST FP4-FP6 projects and disseminating these results through four high quality, thematic book publications, published by Artech House.
She has strong collaboration skills and has established a large international research network that supports PhD academic research. She has been performing teaching and supervision at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate level. This has resulted in more than 30 successfully completed graduate projects and 2 PhD thesis. She has been an active contributor to the ITU-T standardization activities in the area of (1) Internet of Things, E-health, and Next Generation Networks (in the period 2010-2016), (2) Standards education and most recently, SG13 (Future Networks and (cloud)) and SG20 (IoT, Smart cities, & Communities)
Ambuj Kumar
Ambuj Kumar received Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi, India in the year 2000. As a part of the Bachelor programme, he carried through Internship Training in 1999 at the Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, Technical University, (RWTH), Aachen (Germany). After graduation, Ambuj Kumar worked at Lucent Technologies Hindustan Private Limited, a vendor company, during the period 200-2004. His major responsibilities were the Mobile Radio Network Design, Macro and Microcell planning, and Optimization for the GSM and the CDMA-based Mobile Communication Networks. There, he was involved in pan-India planning and optimizing the MCNs of various service providers for both the green field and the incumbent deployments. During the period 2004 to 2007, he worked with Hutchison Mobile Services Limited (now Vodafone), a service provider company, where he was involved in planning, deployment, and optimization of the Hutch’s rapidly expanding GSM and Edge networks across India. Afterwards, he joined Alcatel- Lucent, New Delhi in 2007 and continued until 2009. Here, he worked in Network Pre-sales Department and contributed in network rollouts for various pan-India service providers. He worked for three months in the year 2009 as Research Associate at the Centre for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, and his research area was on ‘Identification of Optimization parameters for Routing in Cognitive Radio’. Ambuj Kumar was awarded research scholarship under European Commission -Erasmus Mundus “Mobility for Life” programme for doing PhD and joined CTIF, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, (Denmark), in the year 2010. Ambuj Kumar has also worked as a Collaborative Researcher at the Vihaan Networks Limited (VNL), India. The work of PhD research was conceptualized at VNL; there he developed test-bed facilities for experimental studies on ‘Advanced Alternative Networks’. He had worked as Research Assistant in the eWall Project, funded by the European Commission, at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (Department of Electronic Systems) during 2015-2016. He was awarded Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 2016 by the Aalborg University (Denmark) on his thesis titled “Active Probing Feedback Based Self Configurable Intelligent Distributed Antenna System for Relative and Intuitive Coverage and Capacity Predictions for Proactive Spectrum Sensing and Management”. Currently, Dr. Ambuj Kumar is working as PostDoc in the Department of Business Development and Technology, School of Business & Social Sciences, Aarhus University (Denmark) since February, 2017. His research interests are radio wave propagation, cognitive radio, visible light communications, radio resource management and distribute antenna systems, etc. He has more than 10 several research publications including a book chapter in these thematic areas.
Sadia Anwar
Sadia Anwar received her degree in Doctor of Pharmacy in 2011 form Government College University, Pakistan. She had worked for three years as a community pharmacist. She also served as a Hospital Pharmacist and Drug information consultant. She arrived in Denmark, December 2015 and started working as a Guest Researcher at CTiF in the department of electronic systems, Aalborg University under the supervision of Professor Ramjee Prasad. She served for Interdisciplinary area specifically more focused in 4 sections: Medicine, Telecommunication, Big data and economics. She joined Aarhus University in December 2016 in Department of Business Development and Technology as Research Scientist for seven months. Now, she is working as a Research Assistant in the same department from October 2017. Her research interests are based on the interdisciplinary area of Medicine, eHealth, ICT, and Business Development. She is also Working with an EU project vCare (Virtual Coaching Activities for Rehabilitation in Elderly) – EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation funding programme. She is also involved in administrative and managerial tasks. She has produced many research articles for the conferences and Journals as an Author and co-Author.
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