Joerg Widmer
Research Professor (tenured) & Research Director
at IMDEA Networks
Research interests
My research interests are primarily in the area of wireless networking and communication, with research topics ranging from millimeter-wave communication, MAC layer design, and interference management to wireless transport protocols and anticipatory networks. I am particularly interested in putting theoretical results into practice and extensively work with wireless testbeds and software defined radios.
Short biography
Joerg Widmer is Research Professor at IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid, Spain. He received his M.S. and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Mannheim, Germany in 2000 and 2003, respectively. From 2005 to 2010, he was manager of the Ubiquitous Networking Research Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, Germany, leading several projects in the area of mobile and cellular networks. Before, he worked as post-doctoral researcher at EPFL, Switzerland on ultra-wide band communication and network coding. He was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA, USA and University College London, UK. Joerg Widmer authored more than 100 conference and journal papers and three IETF RFCs, holds 13 patents, serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Communications, and regularly participates in program committees of several major conferences. Recently he was awarded an ERC consolidator grant, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as well as a Spanish Ramón y Cajal grant. He is senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Team
- Dr. Claudio Fiandrino
- Hany Assasa
- Amanda García
- Jesús Omar Lacruz
- Francisco Javier Hervás
- Guillermo Bielsa
- Joan Palacio
- Pablo Jiménez Mateo
- Alejandro Blanco
- Dolores García
- Diego Juara
Former team members
- Aditya Amah.
- Danilo de Donno
- Adrian Loch
- Gek Hong Sim
- Thomas Nitsche
- Nicola Bui
- Foivos Michelinakis
- Carlos Cuadrado
- Irene Tejado
- Guido Fioravanti
- Alba de Juanas
- Magnuss Offermanns
- Roberto Santos
- Swetank Kumar Saha
- Maria Scalabrin
- Maria Peral
- Alejandro Ranchal
- Boram Jin
- Bana Shehadeh
- Carlos Mendoza
- Enrique Llorente
- Norbert Ludant
- Matteo Marugan
- Carlos Andrés
- Guillermo Bertolomé

Latest News
- Joerg Widmer did a Research Stay at TU Darmstadt as part of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Learn more
- Journal Articles:
- Data-driven Evaluation of Anticipatory Networking in LTE Networks. Mar.2018
- Millimeter-Wave Beam Training Acceleration through Low-Complexity Hybrid Transceivers. Jun.2017
- Conference contributions:
- The Cloud that Runs the Mobile Internet: A Measurement Study of Mobile Cloud Services. IEEE INFOCOM 2018
- Communication-Driven Localization and Mapping for Millimeter Wave Networks. IEEE INFOCOM 2018
- Compressive Millimeter-Wave Sector Selection in Off-the-Shelf IEEE 802.11ad Devices. ACM CoNEXT 2017
- Zero Overhead Device Tracking in 60 GHz Wireless Networks using Multi-Lobe Beam Patterns. ACM CoNEXT 2017
- New projects financed by EU H2020: MONROE.
- ERC Consolidator Grant 2014
- TIGRE5-CM: New project cofinanced by Comunidad de Madrid and EU