Biography

Lars Kildehøj Rasmussen got his M. Eng. in 1989 from the Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Denmark) and his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) in 1993. He is now a Professor in the Department of Communication Theory at the School of Electrical Engineering, and the ACCESS Linnaeus Center, at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden).

He has prior experience from the Institute for Telecommunications Research at the University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia), the Center for Wireless Communications at National University of Singapore (Singapore), Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden), and University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa).

He is a co-founder of Cohda Wireless Pty Ltd (http://www.cohdawireless.com/); a leading developer of Safe Vehicle and Connected Vehicle design solutions. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Information Theory Society, Communications Society, and Vehicular Technology Society. He served as Chairman for the Australian Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society 2004-2005, and has been a board member of the IEEE Sweden Section Vehicular Technology, Communications, and Information Theory Joint Societies Chapter since 2010. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Elsevier Physical Communications, as well as a former associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications 2002-2013.

His research interests include transmission strategies and coding schemes for wireless communications, communications and control, and vehicular communication systems.