Research Grants (Funded projects)

I serve(d) as a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator in the following research grants:

International & EU projects

• 6G-XCEL

  2024 - 2026. 6G Trans-Continental Edge Learning (6G-XCEL) seeks to address these challenges through research on high edge network use cases that employ multi-party AI controls running over compute accelerators to coordinate control across radio and optical networks. It will develop a reference framework for AI in 6G that will pave the way towards global validation, adoption and standardisation of AI approaches. This framework will enable decentralised AI-based network controls across network domains and physical layers, while promoting security and sustainable implementations. Funding body: Horizon Europe - Joint Undertaking Smart Networks and Services - European Commission. 2 994 474.25 EUR - 299 858.75 EUR (IMEC). Members: 11 EU + 13 USA institutions (Research and Industry).
• iSEE-6G

  2024 - 2026. Integrated SEnsing, Energy and communication for 6G networks (iSEE-6G). The idea of Joint communication and sensing (JCS) capabilities is a revolutionary and innovative solution. A single system has the potential to offer significant advances in various fields, such as smart transportation, smart cities, smart homes, healthcare, security, and environmental monitoring. iSEE-6G extends beyond JCS and propose a Joint Communication, Computation, Sensing, and Power transfer (JCCSP) unified radio platform, which includes all support elements of the proposed solutions in future 6G networks. Funding body: Horizon Europe - Joint Undertaking Smart Networks and Services - European Commission. 4 340 962.00 EUR - 499 836.00 (BE). Members: 12 European Institutions (Research and Industry).
• Hexa-X-II

  2023 - 2025. A holistic flagship towards the 6G network platform and system, to inspire digital transformation, for the world to act together in meeting needs in society and ecosystems with novel 6G services (Hexa-X-II) Funding body: Horizon Europe - Joint Undertaking Smart Networks and Services - European Commission. 25,654,444.00 EUR - 1,021,313.00 (IMEC). Members: 44 Consortium Members (Industry and Academia).
• 6GSTART

  2022 - 2024. Starting the Sustainable 6G SNS Initiative for Europe (6GSTART). Funding body: Horizon Europe - European Commission. 2,986,748.00 EUR - 132,788.00 (IMEC). Members: 17 Consortium Members (Industry and Academia).
• TrialsNet

  2023 - 2025. Trials supported by Smart Networks beyond 5G (TrailsNet). Funding body: Horizon Europe - Joint Undertaking Smart Networks and Services - European Commission. 16,789,132.50 EUR - 596,250.00 (IMEC). Members: 26 Consortium Members (Industry and Academia).
• FOR-FREIGHT

  2022 - 2025. Flexible, multi-mOdal and Robust FREIGHt Transport (FOR-FREIGHT) Funding body: Horizon Europe - European Commission. 7,151,679.00 EUR - 417,375.00 (IMEC). Members: 18 Consortium Members (Industry and Academia).
• DEDICAT 6G

  2021 - 2023. Dynamic coverage Extension and Distributed Intelligence for human Centric applications with assured security, privacy and trust: from 5G to 6G (DEDICAT 6G). Funding body: H2020 European Commission. 6,461,391.25 EUR Members: 14 Consortium Members (Industry and Academia).
• VITAL-5G

  2021 - 2023. Vertical Innovations in Transport And Logistics over 5G experimentation facilities (VITAL-5G). Funding body: H2020 European Commission. 6,494,425.00 EUR Members: 16 Consortium Members (Industry and Academia).
• DAEMON

  2021 - 2023. Network intelligence for aDAptive and sElf-Learning MObile Networks (DAEMON). Funding body: H2020 European Commission. 4,997,025.00 EUR Members: 11 Consortium Members (Industry and Academia).
• 5G-Blueprint

  2020-2023. Next generation connectivity for enhanced, safe & efficient transport & logistics (5G-Blueprint). Funding body: H2020 European Commission. 13,913,735.00 EUR. Members: 28 Research and Industry partners from European countries.
• InterConnect

  2019-2022. Interoperable Solutions Connecting Smart Homes, Buildings and Grids (InterConnect). Funding body: H2020 European Commission. 35,877,928.98 EUR. Members: 56 Partners - Industry and Academia.
• Safeguards of the cultural heritage.

  2019-2022. Safeguards of the cultural heritage: Tools and practices for its intergrated management in Santiago de Cuba and the Eastern Region of Cuba. Funding body: VLIR Belgium. 600,000.00 EUR. Members: UAntwerp, KULeuven, UGhent, VUB (Belgium) - Universidad de Oriente (Cuba).
• 5GMobix

  2018-2022. 5G for cooperative & connected automated MOBIility on X-border corridors (5GMobix). Funding body: H2020 European Commission. 26,948,801.75 EUR. Members: 46 Consortium Members (Industry and Academia).
• 5G-CARMEN

  2019-2021. 5G for Connected and Automated Road Mobility in the European unioN (5G-CARMEN). Funding body: H2020 European Commission. 18,566,123.75 EUR. Members: 25 Research and Industry partners from European countries.
• Fed4FIRE+

  2017-2021. Fed4FIREplus: Federation for FIRE Plus Funding body: H2020, European Commission. 9,999,375.00 EUR. Members: 22 members (Academia and Industry) within Europe.
• FUTEBOL

  2016-2019. Federated Union of Telecommunications Research Facilities for an EU-Brazil Open Laboratory (FUTEBOL) Funding body: H2020, European Commission - EU Brazil Call. 3,000,000.00 EUR. Members: Trinity College Dublin (IE) Coordinator EU, imec (BE), UNIVBRIS (UK), VTT (FI), IT (PT), Intel (DE) - UFRGS (BR) Coordinator BR, UFES, UFC, UFMG, UNICAMP, INTEL, DIGITEL.
• eWINE

  2016-2018. elastic WIreless Networking Experimentation (eWINE). Funding body: H2020, European Commission. 2,352,546.00 EUR. Members: iMinds (BE), Trinity College Dublin (IE), TU Brelin (DE), TU Dresden (DE), Institut Jozef Stefan (SI), Thales Communications (FR), Martel (CH), SigFox Wireless (FR), Innovative Solutions Slawomir Pietrzyk (PL), Spacetime Networks Oy (FI).
• FAVORITE

  2014-2016. Federation And Virtualization Of a RadIoTEstbed (FAVORITE) / OC Federation for FIRE (Fed4FIRE). Funding body: FP7, European Commission. 104,667.00. EUR / 12,244,569.00 EUR. Members: 42 members (Academia and Industry) within Europe.
• Future WWW Prefetching and Caching Architectures

  2005-2008. Future WWW Prefetching and Caching Architectures Funding body: EU - Alban Programme (Excellence program). 7,458.00 EUR. Members: Personal Grant.

National projects

• IOF Consortium IDLab

  2021-2026. IOF Consortium IDLab. Funding body: IOF University of Antwerp. 1 IOF Manager FTE equivalent for 6 years. Members: IDLab UAntwerp. Antwerp, Belgium.
• MOZAIK: Scalable and Secure Data Sharing

  2021-2025. Funding body: FWO Belgium - SBO/E Strategic Basic Research-Economic. 1,905,609.00 EUR. Members: University of Antwerp, Gent University, KU Leuven. Belgium.
• FIVE G'D

  2020-2023. Funding body: Vlaamse Ministry. 1,746,517.00 EUR. Members: imec, Verhaert, Crescent, DroneMatrix. Belgium.
• Internet of Water

  2019-2023. Funding body: Vlaamse Ministry. 9,000,000.00 EUR. Members: imec, Aquafin, De Watergroep, VITO, Vlakwa, VMM, Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Antwerp, Belgium.
• WTSN - Wireless Time Sensitive Networks

  2020-2021. Funding body: imec. Confidential EUR (imec-Uantwerpen). Members: IDLab UAntwerp, IDLab UGhent. Belgium.
• SmartWaterway

  2019-2021. Funding body: Vlaamse ICON. 2,464,257.00 EUR. Members: Blue Line Logistics, Citymesh, De Vlaamse Waterweg, Flir Systems Trading, imec-UAntwerp, imec-UGent, Pozyx, Seafar, Stad Gent (Belgium). Belgium.
• HAI-SCS

  2019-2021. Helicus Aero Initiative & Scheduling, Connectivity & Security (HAI-SCS) Funding body: VIL ICON, Vlaamse Ministry. 3,614,990.00 EUR. Members: Skeyes, SABCA, Baloise, NSX, Orange, Helicus, IDlab-imec-UAntwerp, COSIC-KULeuven. Belgium.
• IMEC-UA A

  2020. Funding body: imec. Confidential EUR. Members: IDLab UAntwerp. Belgium.
• AI & Slicing 5G RAN

  2020. AI & Slicing 5G RAN. Funding body: Private. Confidential EUR. Members: Accelleran - imec-UAntwerp. Antwerp, Belgium.
• Better than Wired

  2020.Funding body: imec. Confidential EUR. Members: IDLab UAntwerp, IDLab UGhent. Belgium .
• 5G vehicular communications

  2020. Funding body: Private. Confidential EUR. Members: Toyota Belgium - imec-UAntwerp - imec UGent. Brussels, Belgium.
• IMEC-UA A

  2019. Funding body: imec. Confidential EUR. Members: IDLab UAntwerp. Belgium.
• Virtualized 5G RAN

  2019-2020. Funding body: Private. Confidential EUR. Members: Accelleran - imec-UAntwerp. Antwerp, Belgium.
• IMEC-UA A

  2018. Funding body: imec. Confidential EUR. Members: IDLab UAntwerp. Belgium.
• Virtual and Remote Laboratories

  2016-2017. Virtual and Remote Laboratories: analysis and research on new methodologies to improve the in-class and remote education. Funding body: University of Zaragoza - Academic Unit - Teaching and Learning Enhancement Program. 500.00 EU. Members: University of Zaragoza - iNiT Research Group. Teruel, Spain.

Participation on other projects

I participate(d) in the research related to the following research projects:

International & EU projects

• CONCORDA

  2017-2021. Connected Corridor for Driving Automation Funding body: CEF and INEA - European Commission. 48,000,000.00 EUR. Members: 26 European consortium partners.
• Protego

  2018-2021. Data-protection toolkit reducing risks in hospitals and care centers (Protego). Funding body: H2020 European Commission. 4,457,722.00 EUR. Members: GFI (SP), Southampton (UK), IBM (Israel), OSP (IT), Marina Salud (SP), UAlcala (SP), imec (BE), KUL (BE), ICatalyst (UK).
• FLEXNET

  2018-2021. Flexible IoT Networks for Value Creators (FLEXNET) Funding body: EU Celtic-Plus. 7,810,223.00 EUR. Members: 14 Research and Industry partners from 6 countries (Spain, imec Belgium, Canada, South Korea, Poland).
• ORCA

  2017-2020. Orchestration and Reconfiguration Control Architecture (ORCA). Funding body: H2020, European Commission. 4.936.475.00 EUR. Members: imec (BE), Trinity College Dublin (IR), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE), Technische Universitet Dresden (DE), National Instruments Dresden GMBH (DE), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US), Martel GMBH (CH).
• WiSHFUL

  2015-2017. Wireless Software and Hardware platforms for Flexible and Unified radio and network controL (WiSHFUL) Funding body: H2020, European Commission. 5,171,001.00 EUR. Members: iMinds (BE), Trinity College Dublin (IE), CNIT (IT), TU Berlin (DE), nCENTRIC (BE), Rutjers (US), UFJR (BR), SNU (KR).
• CREW

  2010-2015. Cognitive Radio Experimentation World (CREW). Funding body: FP7, European Commission. 4,884,529.00 EUR. Members: iMinds (BE), imec (BE), Trinity College Dublin (IR), TU Dresden (DE), TCS, EADS, IJS (SI).

National projects

• SmartHighway

  2017-2020. Funding body: MOW and imec - Belgium. 1.500.000.00 EUR. Members: IMEC COT, IMEC-IDLAB, IMEC PERSYS, IMEC BAN, IMEC-WAVES-UGent, MOW, KU Leuven. Antwerpen, Belgium.
• CONNECT

  2015-2020. CONNECT. Funding body: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). 24,251,878.00 EUR. Members: 10 Irish universities, 38 Industry partners. Dublin, Ireland.
• CTVR

  2010-2015. CTVR. Funding body: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). 15,022,734.00 EUR. Members: 6 Universities, 68 Industry partners. Dublin, Ireland.
• Walkie-Talkie

  2012-2014. Walkie-Talkie: Vehicular Communication Systems to Enable Safer, Smarter, and Greener Transportation (TIN2011-27543-C03-01). Funding body: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain. 100,000.00 EUR. Members: Polytechnic University of Valencia, University of Murcia, University of Zaragoza, Miguel Hernendez University of Elche. Valencia, Spain.
• SEISCIENTO

  2009-2011. SEISCIENTO: providing adapting ubiquitous services in vehicular contexts (TIN2008-06441-C02-01) Funding body: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain. 157,000.00 EUR. Members: Polytechnic University of Valencia, University of Murcia. Valencia, Spain.
• SECURA-II

  2009-2010. SECURA-II: Support for QoS in Ubiquitous Computing Environments based on Wireless Ad hoc Networks. Funding body: Generalitat Valencia. 12,000.00 EUR. Members: Polytechnic University of Valencia. Valencia, Spain.