Gerald Ostermayer received Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in communications engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 1992 and 1998, respectively. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Applied Electronics Laboratory, where he worked in the field of wireless sensing using code division multiple-access methods. In 1997, he joined Siemens, where he was responsible for several projects in the field of radio resource management (RRM) algorithms and network simulation issues for UMTS. Since 2005, he has been with the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria, where he heads the Degree Program "Automotive Computing" and the Research Group "Networks and Mobility". He has authored or coauthored around 80 technical papers in the fields of wireless sensing, mobile communications, and mobile and automotive computing in international conferences and journals. He holds seven patents in the field of mobile communications and wireless sensing.
