Organisers

EN-IoT 2025 (MON 22-Sep-2025; KU Leuven)
2^nd Workshop on Energy Neutral and Sustainable IoT Devices and Infrastructure

There are four organisers of the workshop, all of whom work on one or more of the collaborating projects.

He has a specific interest in mmWave and sub-THz communications and sensing, wireless Extended Reality and optimisation of low-power IoT systems. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, and 8 granted patents. He was listed as one of the top 2 % most cited scientists worldwide in a study by Stanford University and Elsevier, both in 2022 and 2023. Prof. Famaey has a leading role in various national and European 6G projects and initiatives, with a specific focus on low-power and energy neutral 6G devices. He leads the technology road-mapping in the Belgian 6G flagship project BEL6GICA, leads the work package on future devices and infrastructure of the Horizon Europe SNS Hexa-X-II 6G flagship project, and acts as project lead of the SNS AMBIENT-6G project.

Following his educational pursuits, he ventured into research roles, dedicating four years as a researcher at the Verimag lab in France, LG Research Lab in Seoul, South Korea (2012-2016), and another two years at the TCS Innovations Lab in India (2016-2018). He has chaired the IEEE COMSNETS conference for the past three years and actively served as TPC member in several conferences. He is a point of contact for university collaboration within the DASH7 alliance and holds a design patent along with several other (co)authored research papers. Currently, Ritesh holds the position of Principal Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at IDLab, University of Antwerp-imec, Belgium, where he leads the Sustainable Intelligent System team, focusing on AI-driven sustainable IoT, energy harvesting, low-power and energy aware solutions. He is involved in co-managing WP5 within the Hexa-X-II project, acts as project manager of the SNS AMBIENT-6G project and task lead for Belgian 6G flagship project BEL6GICA.

Onel is the recipient of both the 2020 best doctoral thesis award granted by Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK and Tekniska Föreningen i Finland TFiF in 2021 and the 2022 Young Researcher Award in technology in Finland.He is co-author of the books entitled “Wireless RF Energy Transfer in the massive IoT era: towards sustainable zero-energy networks”, Wiley, 2021, and “Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications: Foundations, Enablers, System Design, and Evolution Towards 6G”, Now Publishers, 2023. He is currently an Associate Professor (tenure track) in sustainable wireless communications engineering at the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), Oulu, Finland. His research interests include sustainable IoT, wireless connectivity, machine-type communications, and cellular-enabled positioning systems. He is the task leader of T5.4 in Hexa-X-II, and task leader of T2.1 and WP3 leader in AMBIENT-6G.

In the last five years, he has held temporary and visiting positions with the University of Bologna, Italy, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, Yokohama National University, Japan and King’s College London, UK. Konstantin’s research interests include IoT and machine-to-machine wireless communication, IoT devices and systems design, and applications. He has authored and co-authored over one hundred research papers on the different aspects of IoT and MTC connectivity. He was a co-editor of the “Integration of MTC and Satellites for IoT toward 6G era” book published by Wiley-IEEE collaboration. Dr. Mikhaylov is also a Senior Member of IEEE, the Networking Architecture work-package leader of the SUPERIOT project and Network Architectures and Protocols working group co-chair of CA20120 INTERACT.