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NextG2Com organizes an annual workshop for all center partners, and this year, the second workshop in the series took place on April 29. The agenda included sustainability at all levels, insights from long-standing collaboration between industry and academia, and short partner presentations. NextG2Com brings together all partners annually for an internal workshop. This year’s invited speakers were

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-collaboration-and-theme-workshops - 2026-05-15

LTH honorary doctor 2025 Margaret-Anne Storey presented her research on social aspects of software development on different occasions during the conferment week in May. You can watch two recordings of her presentations here.

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/social-aspects-software-development - 2026-05-15

Theme leaders and researchers in NextG2Com have received best application paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation during the previous year. Xuesong Cai, Erik L. Bengtsson, Ove Edfors and Fredrik Tufvesson have been awarded The IEEE Antennas and Propagation 2025 Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award, presented to the authors of the best application paper publ

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/best-paper-2024 - 2026-05-15

Dr Marja Matinmikko-Blue from University of Oulu, Finland, will be giving an inspirational talk on the first NextG2Com program day on September 25, titled: Multi-disciplinary approach to future communication system development. Marja Matinmikko-Blue is Research Director of Infotech Oulu Institute and Director of Sustainability and Regulation at 6G Flagship. She is also member of the International

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/keynote-nextg2com-program-day - 2026-05-15

The competence center NextG2Com gathered for a program day focusing on ongoing research, doctoral students, and demonstrations. NextG2Com is a Vinnova Competence Center that brings together research and expertise in future advanced communication systems. On September 25, sixty members and interested participants met for the center’s first program day at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering (LT

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/research-doctoral-students-and-demos-nextg2coms-first-program-day - 2026-05-15

Vinnova has granted funding for the planning of clusters of excellence for groundbreaking technology. Of the 45 projects approved, five are at The Faculty of Engineering, and two are led by NextG2Com researchers. The projects granted by Vinnova bring together actors in all six strategic technology areas: AI and autonomous systems, materials and production technology, energy technology, biotechnolo

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/lth-projects-receive-funding-vinnova-plan-future-technology-clusters - 2026-05-15

Researchers from NextG2Com participated in PROFES 2025, a recognized conference in software and process development. Rushali Gupta presented the results of an initial interview study with companies involved in NextG2Com. The interviews were conducted in autumn 2024 and involved six companies, focusing on how organizations adapt AI for ethical compliance and risk mitigation in industrial applicatio

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/nextg2com-profes-2025 - 2026-05-15

Theme 5, Software Platforms and Continuous Engineering, organized a workshop together with industry partner TetraPak concerning data driven DevOps. 12 participants strong, theme 5 visited TetraPak. After a tour and seeing the product discovery room at the facilities in Lund, participants took part in a workshop regarding DevOps. DevOps stands for software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops),

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/data-driven-devops - 2026-05-15

Within NextG2Com, Theme 6 consists of the knowledge centre’s demonstrators. Work within this theme aims to make the research and results of NextG2Com visible. How can the results best be showcased, and how can demos be used to integrate the different technology layers? During three workshops on Theme 6 and demonstrators, participants discussed various aspects of the use of demos. What types of dem

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/demonstrators-nextg2com - 2026-05-15

What do we know about AI's decision making? NextG2Com researcher Sule Tekkesinoglu presented her research and state of current knowledge at a AI Lund lunch seminar. AI Lund is an open network for research, education and innovation in the area of AI at Lund University. AI Lund organizes different types of events, and Sule Tekkesinoglu presented her research on explainable AI at a lunch seminar. Fin

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/explainable-ai-xai-concepts-tools-and-applications - 2026-05-15

NextG2Com PhD student Jialong Li and co-authors received the award for best short technical contribution at the Human-Robot Interaction conference 2026. NextG2Com congratulates Jialong Li and co-authors Zhenguo Wang, Tianci Wang, Maj Stenmark and Volker Krüger who received the Award for the Best Short (technical) Contribution at ACM/IEEE Conference in Human-Robot Interaction 2026. The conference t

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/best-paper-award - 2026-05-15

One of the annual events that NextG2Com organizes is a partner workshop. The third partner workshop gathered over 60 NextG2Com members at LTH. On April 16, 2026, it was time for NextG2Com's recurring event "Partner Workshop". The workshop is organized in the spring semester and welcomes center members, whereas the fall semester's "Program Day" is an open event, for all interested parties. The two

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/over-60-participated-nextg2com-partner-workshop - 2026-05-15

Hi Hedieh, doctoral student in communications engineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Technology! What is your research topic?My field is millimeter-wave based positioning and sensing. There are two tracks for my research where one has been characterizing the radio channel for multipath propagation of millimeter-waves, and the other is proof of concept applications for intellig

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-phd-students-hedieh-khosravi - 2026-05-15

NextG2Com theme leader Emma Söderberg was one of the hosts of a thought-provoking workshop on perceptual engineering. Perceptual engineering explores how technology can be designed to investigate and alter our perception, how we experience and interpret the world. The keynote speaker at the fika-to-fika event was researcher Jas Brooks from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), who presented

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/insight-perceptual-engineering - 2026-05-15

Hi Linus Ghatnekar Nilsson, industrial PhD student with Acconeer, in communications engineering! What is your research topic?I’m working on signal processing in mono-, bi-, and multistatic radar, with small, energy efficient sensors. What are you working on within NextG2Com? Recently, we have finished a project together with Sandvik Group, where Acconeer’s small radar sensors have been evaluated f

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-phd-students-linus-ghatnekar-nilsson - 2026-05-15

What is your research topic? I work with mid-band channel characterization for joint communication and sensing. Whats is your project within NextG2Com? I’m working on the analysis of repeater-assisted cellular massive MIMO channels. It will be a signal-processing task in terms that I'll investigate the gains achieved by beamforming and spatial multiplexing in repeater assisted MIMO networks. On th

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-phd-students-aleksandar-birmancevic - 2026-05-15

In a time marked by rapid technological change and growing societal challenges, universities play a key role in shaping responsible and impactful innovation. Against this backdrop, CIRCLE invites researchers to come together to reflect, exchange perspectives, and co create knowledge on how innovation research can contribute to sustainable and systemic change. CIRCLE is hosting its third Innovation

https://www.circle.lu.se/article/upcoming-innovation-research-day-2026 - 2026-05-15

CIRCLE recently hosted an insightful seminar titled “Industry – University Cooperation – a Key Factor for Innovation”, featuring Philipp Janello, Head of Academic Relations and Innovation Politics at BMW Group. Philipp Janello shared BMW’s perspective on how collaboration between universities and large corporations can shape the future of innovation. Some areas of cooperation highlighted included:

https://www.circle.lu.se/article/industry-university-cooperation-key-driver-innovation - 2026-05-15

As we struggle with environmental and societal crises, there's a growing need to rethink the foundational ideas of industrial modernity according to Laur Kanger, Professor of Sustainability Transitions, who was the invited guest speaker at a policy seminar hosted by CIRCLE and SIRI. In his talk, Laur Kanger pointed out that industrial modernity has had a great impact on our society as the driver o

https://www.circle.lu.se/article/fixing-21st-century-problems-19th-century-ideas-call-new-thinking - 2026-05-15

Markus Grillitsch has been appointed Professor in Economic Geography at Lund University in a solemn ceremony upholding tradition with robes, speeches and music. His research focuses on regional development and people's living conditions, with a particular interest in factors that affect quality of life and well-being. The ceremony was held in the grand hall of the Main University Building where th

https://www.circle.lu.se/article/markus-grillitsch-appointed-professor-lund-university - 2026-05-15