PhD Candidates / Spontaneous Applications

at  Universit du Luxembourg

SnT is a leading international research and innovation centre in secure, reliable and trustworthy ICT systems and services. We play an instrumental role in Luxembourg by fueling innovation through research partnerships with industry, boosting R&D investments leading to economic growth, and attracting highly qualified talent.
The University of Luxembourg is continuously seeking to hire highly motivated and outstanding doctoral researchers to work on different enabling technologies for the next generation (Beyond 5G/6G) wireless communications networks for its Interdisciplinary Centre of Security and Trust (SnT), within the Signal Processing and Communications (SigCom) research group, led by Prof. Björn Ottersten and Prof. Symeon Chatzinotas.
The SigCom research group at the SnT carries out research activities in the areas of signal processing for wireless communication systems including satellite communications and radar systems, and is rapidly expanding its research areas to various enabling technologies for beyond 5G/6G wireless networks. For details, you may refer to the following: https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/research/sigcom
We’re looking for people driven by excellence, excited about innovation, and looking to make a difference. If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place!

The successful candidate is expected to perform the following tasks:

• Carrying out novel research works in one of the following predefined areas
• Novel communications technologies for Beyond 5G/6G networks and services
• Cellular, UAV, IoT, Tactile Internet, MEC, V2X, D2D, M2M, eMBB, mMTC and URLLC
• Machine learning/deep learning techniques and Artificial Intelligence for wireless communications
• Reinforcement learning, active learning, transfer learning, federated learning and interpretable/explainable AI
• Software defined networking, network virtualization and network slicing for wireless networks
• Energy-efficient communication technologies
• Energy harvesting, SWIPT, backscatter communications and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
• Advanced multi-antenna technologies for B5G/6G wireless networks
• Massive MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO, beamspace massive MIMO, active antennas, smart antennas, precoding, hybrid analog-digital beamforming and 3D beamforming
• Communications technologies at the higher frequencies
• mmWave, TeraHertz and optical
• Communication technologies for Tactile Internet applications including wireless augmented/virtual reality and teleoperation systems
• Quantum-assisted communication technologies for 6G wireless networks
• Disseminating results through scientific publications
• Presenting results in the well-known international conferences and workshops