Erik G. Larsson

Erik G. Larsson received the Ph.D. degree from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, in 2002. He is currently Professor of Communication Systems at Linkoping University ¨ (LiU) in Linkoping, Sweden. He was with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology ¨ in Stockholm, Sweden, the George Washington University, USA, the University of Florida, USA, and Ericsson Research, Sweden. His main professional interests are within the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. He co-authored Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Fundamentals of Massive MIMO (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

He served as chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM technical committee (2015–2016), chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters steering committee (2014–2015), member of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications steering committee (2019-2022), General and Technical Chair of the Asilomar SSC conference (2015, 2012), technical co-chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (2019), and member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Board (2017– 2019). He was Associate Editor for, among others, the IEEE Transactions on Communications (2010-2014), the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2006-2010), and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2018-2022).

He received the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award twice, in 2012 and 2014, the IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize in Communications Theory in 2015, the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2017, the IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2018, the IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2019, and the IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award in 2023.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA), and Highly Cited according to ISI Web of Science.