About 

Ilangko Balasingham received the Siv.Ing.(MSc) and Dr.Ing.(PhD) degrees both in signal processing from the Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronic Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He did his Master thesis at the University of California in Santa Barbara, USA under the supervision of Prof. Sanjit K. Mitra. His PhD supervisor was Prof. Tor A. Ramstad at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.

From 1998 to 2002, he was employed as a Research Engineer developing video streaming solutions to mobile handheld devices at Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Oslo, Norway. Fast, which was a startup company in 1998, was acquired by Microsoft Inc. in 2008. Since 2002, he has been with the Intervention Centre, Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway as a Senior Research Scientist and Founder and Head of the Biomedical Sensor Network Research Group. He was appointed as a Professor of Medical Signal Processing and Communications at NTNU in 2006. In 2017, he was promoted Head of Section for Medical ICT R&D at the Intervention Center. 

He was Professor by courtesy at the Frontier Institute, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan during the academic year 2016-2017.

Research Profile

His research interests include medical signal and image processing, wireless biomedical sensor networks for short range sensing, imaging, localization and communication, and multimedia patient record systems. Lately, he has been involved in nano-scale communication networks - molecular communications using biology and nanotechnology for intra-body applications like minimally invasive diagnosis, monitoring, and drug delivery.

Google Scholar profile

Personal home page: http://www.balasingham.com/