Focus Period Linköping University 2026
Assistant Professor
Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Erik Leitinger received his MSc and PhD degrees (with highest honors) in electrical engineering from Graz University of Technology, Austria in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He was postdoctoral researcher at the department of Electrical and Information Technology at Lund University from 2016 to 2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Graz University of Technology. His research interests include inference on graphs, statistical signal processing, high-dimensional and nonlinear estimation, localization and navigation, machine learning, stochastic modeling and estimation of radio channels, and estimation/detection theory.
Dr. Leitinger is an Associate Editor with the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion. He served as co-chair of a special session “Positioning Energy Constraint Devices” at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2020 and of the special session “Synergistic Radar Signal Processing and Tracking” at the IEEE Radar Conference in 2021. He is an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow.