Author Biographies

Dr. Ivo Müürsepp received his B.Sc. (cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication from the Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) from 1998 to 2002, from 2002 to 2004, and from 2004 to 2013, respectively. From 2002 to 2015, he was a Teaching Assistant with the Institute of Radio and Communication Technology, TUT, where he was an Associate Professor from 2015 to 2018. From 2015 to 2020, he was a specialist of IT systems in cyber command with the Estonian Defence Forces. Since 2018, he has been a Senior Lecturer with the Thomas Johann Seebeck Institute of Electronics, TUT. His main research areas include mobile communications, mobile positioning, and indoor positioning.
Muhammad Mahtab Alam (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunication from the University of Rennes1 France (INRIA Research Center), in 2013. He did his postdoctoral research (2014–2016) at the Qatar Mobility Innovation Center, Qatar. In 2016, he joined as the European Research Area Chair and as an Associate Professor with the Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics, Tallinn University of Technology, where he was elected as a Professor in 2018 and Tenured Full Professor in 2021. Since 2019, he has been the Communication Systems Research Group Leader. His research focuses on the fields of wireless communications–connectivity, mobile positioning, 5G/6G services and applications. He has over 15 years of combined academic and industrial multinational experiences while working in Denmark, Belgium, France, Qatar, and Estonia. He has several leading roles as PI in multimillion Euros international projects funded by European Commission (Horizon Europe LATEST-5GS, 5G-TIMBER, H2020 5G-ROUTES, NATOSPS (G5482), Estonian Research Council (PRG424), Telia Industrial Grant etc. He is an author and co-author of more than 150 research publications. He is actively supervising a number of Ph.D. and Postdoc Researchers. He is also a contributor in two standardization bodies (ETSI SmartBAN, IEEE-GeeenICT-EECH), including “Rapporteur” of work item: DTR/ Smar
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