Rickard Nilsson
Associate Professor
Luleå, Sweden
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Top SchoolRickard Nilsson is an Associate Professor and signal processing expert with 19 years of experience translating broadband and wireless research into real-world systems, from co-inventing VDSL technologies to spearheading flexible radio and software-defined radio research. He founded and leads a research group at Luleå University of Technology focused on waveform and algorithm development for wireless communications, localization, sensing and space systems, while teaching and supervising multiple Ph.D. students. His career spans industry-standard impact (contributions to VDSL1/VDSL2 standardization) and deep academic collaborations across Sweden, Austria and the US, including a research stint at Stanford. Rickard blends theoretical rigor with practical implementation, often moving concepts from low-complexity algorithm design to SDR prototypes and industry partnerships in telecom, mining and space. Less obvious: his work introduced flexible communication waveforms into ultrasonic research at LTU, shifting the lab’s experimental paradigm. He is based in Luleå, Sweden, and remains active in both research and applied engineering.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Signal Processing & Telecommunications, Ph.D., Signal Processing & Telecommunications at Luleå University of TechnologyGymnasieingenjör, [GPA 4.4/5.0] [STEM:5.0/5.0], Gymnasieingenjör, [GPA 4.4/5.0] [STEM:5.0/5.0] at Björknässkolan Boden
Swedish, English, German
Stackoverflow
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16answers
0questions
scala
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Github Skills (12)
test-automation10
property-based-testing10
scalacheck10
scala10
generator9
spec6
unit-testing6
nginx6
scalatest6
automated-tests6
linux6
recursive-data-structures6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/scalacheck
May 2007 - Nov 2021
Property-based testing for Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:941 commits, 152 PRs, 293 pushes in 14 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rickard focused on property-based testing, enhancing the functionality and robustness of the ScalaCheck library. Their contributions included implementing repeated testing, improving test output formatting for better readability, and adding new generator combinators to expand the test data generation capabilities. They also worked on refactoring the test structure to divide test logic, making the testing process more modular.
property-based-testingscalascalacheckproperty-testing
nixbuild/nix-quick-install-action
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 179 commits in 2 years 3 months
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