Neuro-Rehabilitation with Brain Interface 

 L. Ligthart was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on September 15, 1946. He received an Engineer’s degree (cum laude) and a Doctor of Technology degree from Delft University of Technology. He is Fellow of IET and IEEE and academician of the Russian Academy of Transport.

He received Honorary Doctorates at MSTUCA in Moscow, Tomsk State University and MTA Romania. Since 1988, he held a chair at Delft University of Technology. He supervised over 50 PhD’s.

He founded IRCTR at Delft University. He is founding member of the EuMA, chaired the first EuMW and initiated EuRAD conference.

Currently he is emeritus professor of Delft University, guest professor at Universities in Indonesia and China, Chairman of CONASENSE, Member BoG IEEE-AESS. His areas of specialization include antennas and propaga- tion, radar and remote sensing, satellite, mobile and radio communications. He has published over 650 papers, various book chapters and 4 books.

R. Prasad is currently the Director of the Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF) at Aalborg University, Denmark and Professor, Wireless Information Multimedia Communication Chair. Ramjee Prasad is the Founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India (GISFI: www.gisfi.org) established in 2009.

GISFI has the purpose of increasing of the collaboration between Euro- pean, Indian, Japanese, North-American and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas. He was the Founder Chairman of the HERMES Partnership – a network of leading independent European research centres established in 1997, of which he is now the Honorary Chair. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), USA, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and a member of the Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG), and the Danish Engineering Society (IDA).

He is also a Knight (“Ridder”) of the Order of Dannebrog (2010), a distinguished award by the Queen of Denmark. He has received several international award, the latest being 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Orga- nizational Leadership Award for: “Organizational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network”.

He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications. He is a member of the editorial board of other renowned international journals including those of River Publishers. Ramjee Prasad is a member of the Steering committees of many renowned annual international conferences, e.g., Wireless Personal Multimedia Com- munications Symposium (WPMC); Wireless VITAE and Global Wireless Summit (GWS). He has published more than 30 books, 900 plus journals and conferences publications, more than 15 patents, a sizeable amount of graduated PhD students (over 90) and an even larger number of graduated M.Sc. students (over 200). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves.

S. Pupolin, graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1970. Since then he joined the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, where currently is Professor of Elec- trical Communications. He was Chairman of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering (1990–1994), Chairman of the PhD Course in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (1991–1997), (2003–2004) and Director of the PhD School in Information Engineering (2004–2007). Chairman of the board of PhD School Directors (2005–2007), Member of the programming and development committee (1997–2002), Member of Scientific Committee (1996–2001), Member of the budget Committee of the Faculty of Engineer- ing (2003–2009) Chairman of the budget committee of the Department of Information Engineering (2014–2017), of the University of Padua. Member of the Board of Governor of CNIT “Italian National Interuniversity Consor- tium for Telecommunications” (1996–1999), (2004–2007), Director of CNIT (2008–2010). General Chair of the 9-th, 10-th and 18-th Tyrrhenian Interna- tional Workshop on Digital Communications devoted to “Broadband Wireless Communications”, “Multimedia Communications” and “Wireless Communi- cations”, respectively, General Chair of the 7th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC’04).

He spent the summer of 1985 at AT&T Bell Laboratories on leave from the University of Padua, doing research on Digital Radio Systems.

He was Principal investigator for national research projects entitled “Variable bit rate mobile radio communication systems for multimedia applications” (1997–1998), “OFDM Systems with Applications to WLAN Networks” (2000–2002), and “MC-CDMA: an air interface for the 4th gen- eration of wireless systems” (2002–2003). Also, he Task leader in the FIRB PRIMO Research Project “Reconfigurable platforms for broadband mobile communications” (2003–2006).

He is actively engaged in research on Digital Communication Systems and Brain Communication Interface for motor neuro-rehabilitation.