Thierry Sartenaer

Short biography

Thierry Sartenaer was born in Namur (Belgium) in 1974. He received the Electrical Engineering degree and the Ph. D. degree from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1997 and 2004, respectively.

In 1997-98, he was a communications engineer at Alcatel ETCA (Charleroi, Belgium). From September 1998 until September 2004, he was teaching assistant in the Electrical Engineering Department of the UCL. At the same time, he was pursuing a Ph.D. degree within the Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory (TELE).

The topic of his Ph.D. thesis was "Multiuser Communications over Frequency-Selective Wired Channels and Applications to the Powerline Access Network".

In 2005, he was recipient of the Alcatel-Bell Scientific Award , from the Belgian NSF, for his contribution in the field of powerline communications.

In October 2005, he joined the DSL expert team of Alcatel Alenia Space ETCA (Charleroi, Belgium), where he works in collaboration with Alcatel Bell (Antwerp, Belgium). Alcatel is one of the world leading equipment manufacturers in the field of xDSL applications.

Research

My research interests are in the fields of communication theory, joint detection, timing synchronization, wired channel modeling, and multiuser information theory.

The target applications are powerline communications and DSL technology (ADSL/VDSL).

Ph. D. Thesis

"Multiuser Communications over Frequency Selective Wired Channels and Applications to the Powerline Access Network"

September 14, 2004.

More information is available here .

Publications

My complete list of publications, including links to the PDF files, is available here .

Teaching activities

As teaching assistant, I spent a lot of time with undergraduate students during my PhD thesis. Here is the list of UCL courses in which I used to be involved:

• Graduate courses (3rd, 4th and 5th years):
  • ELEC 2360 - Telecommunications 1: channels and signals
  • ELEC 2795 - Telecommunications 2: digital transmission and radiocommunications
  • ELEC 2880 - Modem design
  • INMA 2731 - Stochastic processes: estimation and prediction
• Undergraduate courses (1st and 2nd years):
  • FSAC 1430 - Physics: electricity and magnetism
  • FSAC 1610 - Integrated Project: GSM network planning
  • FSA 1340 - Mathematical physics: differential equations
  • FSA 1361 - Numerical methods
  • FSA 1016 - Project in electricity and magnetism

Contact Information

Phone :

+32-71-87.41.35

Mobile :

+32-473-54.22.33

E-Mail :

thierry@sartenaer-florins.be

Web :

www.tele.ucl.ac.be/digicom/sartenaer/

Address :

Rue de Boignée, 6
5140 Tongrinne
Belgium

Photos

You can find here photos of my 3 sons: Louis (23-01-2001), Noël (07-07-2002) and Henri (04-08-2004).