2013 Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Letters; 2011 Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society for contributions in array signal processing and wireless communication; 2010 Meritorious Service Award, EURASIP; 2009 A first recipient of the European Research Council Advanced Research Grant; 2004 IEEE Fellow for contributions to antenna signal processing and wireless communications; 2001 Co-author of paper awarded IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Award; Björn Ottersten (born 1961) is a Swedish educator, researcher,[1][2] and electrical engineer who is the co-inventor of Space/Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) technology.
[3] He has made contributions in array signal processing and wireless communications and has received many notable awards in these areas.
Currently, he is a Professor of Signal Processing at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),[4] Stockholm, Sweden, and the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Centre[5] for Security, Reliability and Trust, at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
His advisor at Stanford was Thomas Kailath.
[6] Ottersten is a Fellow of the IEEE[7] and EURASIP.