Telecommunications

Our teams’ research covers many aspects of telecommunication infrastructures. Our researchers are working on the design and production of new components and system architectures using both millimetre waves and terahertz (THz).

They are helping to build tomorrow’s smart grid and innovative human-focused applications. Thanks to a revolutionary approach, our teams can control the shape of the optical pulses used in fibre-optic and wireless technologies.

Their work also focuses on new ways that humans interact with their environment, in order to blur the line between the real and virtual worlds. With the emergence of new sensor and signal processing technologies, humans will be integrating more and more with machines.

Consequently, our research teams are reinventing traditional network infrastructures, all while improving (cyber)security, robustness, and latency capabilities. They are also developing communication technologies to improve speech, image, telepresence, and quality of life.

Faculty are working to improve the perceptual and experiential quality of communication in areas such as automatic speech recognition, computer vision, teleconferencing systems, and anthropomorphic multimedia technology. They are studying cognitive models and models for the emotional states in question.