Location: Aalborg, DENMARK

Company: Aalborg University

Short bio:
Frank H. P. Fitzek is an Associate Professor in the department of Electronic Systems, University of Aalborg, Denmark heading the Mobile Device group. He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) - Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He co-founded the start-up company acticom GmbH in Berlin in 1999. He has visited various research institutes including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), VTT, and Arizona State University. In 2005 he won the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC and received the Young Elite Researcher Award of Denmark. He was selected to receive the NOKIA Champion Award four times in a row in 2007 to 2010. In 2008 he was awarded the Nokia Achievement Award for his work on cooperative networks. His current research interests are in the areas of wireless and mobile communication networks, mobile phone programming, cross layer as well as energy efficient protocol design and cooperative networking. www.fitzek.net

Expert in:
Games, Java, Location Based Services, Symbian, Symbian C++, MeeGo, Series 40, Qt, UI Design

Applications
www.gedda-headz.com www.smszipper.com www.phonedeck.com www.steinwurf.com

Books and other publications
[1] F.H.P. Fitzek, T. Mikkonen, and T. Torp, Eds., QT for Symbian, ISBN 978-0-470-69. Wiley, Mar. 2010. [2] F.H.P. Fitzek and H. Charaf, Eds., Mobile Peer to Peer: A Tutorial Giude, ISBN 978-0-470-69992-8. Wiley / Symbian Press, May 2009. [3] M. Katz and F.H.P. Fitzek, Eds., WiMAX Evolution: Emerging Technologies and Applications, ISBN 978-0-470-69680-4. Wiley, Dec. 2008. [4] F.H.P. Fitzek and M. Katz, Eds., Cognitive Wireless Networks: Concepts, Methodologies and Visions Inspiring the Age of Enlightenment of Wireless Communications, ISBN 978-1-4020-5978-0. Springer, July 2007. [5] F.H.P. Fitzek and F. Reichert, Eds., Mobile Phone Programming and its Application to Wireless Networking, Number 10.1007/978-1- 4020-5969-8 in ISBN 978-1-4020-5968-1. Springer, June 2007. [6] F.H.P. Fitzek and M. Katz, Eds., Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications – Real Egoistic Behavior is to Cooperate!, ISBN 1-4020-4710-X. Springer, Apr. 2006. [7] P. Seeling, F.H.P. Fitzek, and M. Reisslein, Eds., Video Traces For Network Performance Evaluation – A Comprehensive Overview and Guide on Video Traces and Their Utilization in Networking Research, ISBN 978-1-4020-5565-2. Springer, Dec. 2006.

Speaking engagements
[1] F.H.P. Fitzek, “Social-mobile networks,” in Key Note Speech at IEEE/ICME 2008 - International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Hannover, Germany, June 2008. [2] F.H.P. Fitzek, “Cooperative mobile networks,” in Forum Nokia Innovation Seminar, Barcelona, Spain, May 2008. [3] F.H.P. Fitzek, “Introduction to cooperative wireless networks,” in Keynote at CoCoNet Workshop / ICC 08, Beijing, China, May 2008. [4] F.H.P. Fitzek, “Cooperation of mobile devices,” in Key Note Speech at IEEE/IFIP WONS 2008 - The Fifth Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Jan. 2008. [5] F.H.P. Fitzek, “Cooperative wireless networks and the application of network coding,” in Invited Talk MIT, Boston, USA, Dec. 2007.

Honors and Awards
2005: Young Elite Researcher, YRP award