Are Hjørungnes

News: The project entitled "Lattices Applications in Wireless Communications - Damen" started October 2010, and it is mainly financed by the Research Council of Norway under the BILATGRUNN program. On 30.07.2010 the book entitled "Complex-Valued Matrix Derivatives: With Applications in Signal Processing and Communications" was delivered to Cambridge University Press, and it will be published early 2011. From 15.07.2010, I will spend a one year sabbatical at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA. Guest editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, in the special issue on "Cooperative Networking - Challenges and Applications", submission deadline 01.02.2011. The project entitled "Theoretical Foundations of Mobile Flexible Networks - THEFONE" started June 2010, and it is mainly financed by the Research Council of Norway under the FRITEK program.

Academic Positions

• Since September 2007, Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at University of Oslo with office located at UNIK - University Graduate Center, in Kjeller, Norway.
• From September 2004 to September 2007, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, at University of Oslo, with office located at UNIK - University Graduate Center in Kjeller, Norway.
• From September 2003 to August 2004, Postdoctoral Research fellow in the Digital Signal Processing and Image Analysis Group at the Department of Informatics at University of Oslo, in Oslo, Norway.
• From September 2002 to August 2003, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Signal Processing Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology in Helsinki, Finland.
• From March 2001 to July 2002, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Signal Processing Laboratory at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• From August 2000 to December 2000, researcher at Tampere International Center for Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology, in Tampere, Finland.

Visiting Positions

• Visiting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA from mid July 2010 until mid July 2011.
• Visiting professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Califonia, San Diego, USA for one week in December 2009.
• Visiting professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Houston, USA for one week in December 2008.
• Visiting professor at the Alcatel-Lucent Chair at SUPÉLEC, France:
  • One week in November 2008.
  • 10 days in September 2009.
• Visiting professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada for two weeks in November 2006.
• Visiting researcher in the Mobile Communications Department at Eurécom, in Sofia Antipolis, France:
  • One week stay in October 2006.
  • One week stay in August 2006.
  • One week stay in September 2005.
  • One week stay in June 2005.
  • One month stay from mid June 2004 until mid July 2004.
• Visiting researcher in the Signal Processing Laboratory at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
  • Two and a half weeks during December 2008 and January 2009.
  • One week in November 2007.
  • Two and a half weeks in the end of December 2005 and the beginning of January 2006.
  • Three months stay from June 2005 until August 2005.
  • One month stay from mid February until mid March 2003.
• Visiting scientist in the Image and Signal Processing Laboratory at University of California, Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara USA:
  • Six weeks stay in November and December 1998.
  • One year stay from September 1997 to August 1998.

Education

• Doktor ingeniør (Ph.D.) degree 2000 from the Signal Processing Group at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, Norway.
• Sivilingeniør (M.Sc.) degree 1995 from the Department of Telecommunications at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, in Trondheim, Norway.