Curriculum Vitae for Dr Erik Gudmundson

(13th Nov. 2012)

Personalia

Last name: Gudmundson

First name: Ulf Erik

Sex: Male

Date of birth: 12th June 1976

Experience

May 2012 – present Scientist at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).

July 2010 – present Post-doc in Prof. Jakobsson’s group at Mathematical Statistics, Lund University.

Aug 2010 – Aug 2012 Post-doc in Prof. Händel’s group at School of Electrical Engineering, KTH.

Apr 2005 – June 2010 PhD Student in Signal Processing, supervisor Prof. Petre Stoica, at Systems and Control, Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University.

Sep 2004 – Mar 2005 Software development, Ericsson AB.

May 2004 – Aug 2004 Treatment of young criminals at Bärby Ungdomshem, Uppsala.

Mar 2003 & Mar 2004 Teaching assistant in computers in the Sida project Global Nutrition.

Jun 2001 – Jan 2002, Summer 2002 Expansion and construction of the 3G mobile phone network for Alyata Telecom AB.

Summer 2000 Night watch at Camping Le Petit Nice, France.

Summer 1999 Summer internship at Stora Enso Norrsundet AB.

Apr 1998 – Aug 1998 Non-combatant service, fireman in the fire brigade in Gävle.

Sep 1997 – Dec 1997 Fulltime teacher substitute in different schools in Gävle.

Oct 1996 – May 1997 Selling, hiring out and repairing skis at Intersport Chamonix, France.

Education

Apr 2005 – Apr 2010 PhD Student in Signal Processing, supervisor Prof. Petre Stoica, at Systems and Control, Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University.

Aug 1998 – Jun 2001, Aug 2002 – Mar 2004 M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, with emphasis on Signals and Systems, Uppsala University.

Feb 2002 – May 2002 Studies in Spanish and Spanish culture, Granada, Spain.

Aug 2001 – Jan 2002 National economics, Uppsala University.

Aug 1992 – Jun 1993, Aug 1994 – Jun 1996 Natural Sciences programme, Vasaskolan, Gävle.

Aug 1993 – Jun 1994 Natural Sciences programme, Le Lycée Maine de Biran (high school), Bergerac, France.

Visiting Positions

• The Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Lab (MRSRL), Stanford University, Ca, USA.
• The Spectral Analysis Lab, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, USA.
• The NQR Group, King’s College London, London, UK.

Publications

Theses and book chapters:

t1. J. Barras, A. Jakobsson, E. Gudmundson, M. D. Rowe, I. J. F. Poplett, J. Luznik, V. Jazbinsek, J. Pirnat, J. Seliger, Z. Trontelj, J. A. S. Smith, and K. Althoefer, “The Emerging Field of Medicines Authentication by Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy”, Counterfeit Medicines Volume II: Detection, Identification and Analysis, Eds. P. Wang and A. I. Wertheimer, ILM Publications, 2012.

t2. E. Gudmundson. “Signal Processing for Spectroscopic Applications”, PhD Thesis, Uppsala University, April 2010. Advisor: Prof. Petre Stoica. (urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-120194)

Journal papers:

j1. A. Jakobsson, G. O. Glentis and E. Gudmundson, “Computationally Efficient Time-Recursive IAA-Based Blood Velocity Estimation”. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, July 2012. (doi:10.1109/TSP.2012.2192926).

j2. E. Gudmundson, A. Jakobsson, J. A. Jensen, and P. Stoica. "Blood Velocity Estimation Using Ultrasound and Spectral Iterative Adaptive Approaches."Signal Processing, vol. 91, pp 1275-1283, May 2011. (doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2010.12.014)

j3. J. K. Barral, E. Gudmundson, N. Stikov, M. Etezadi-Amoli, P. Stoica, and D. G. Nishimura. ”A Robust Methodology For In Vivo T1 Mapping.” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 64, pp. 1057-1067, October 2010. (doi:10.1002/mrm.22497)

j4. E. Gudmundson, P. Stoica, J. Li, A. Jakobsson, M. D. Rowe, J. A. S. Smith, and J. Ling. "Spectral Estimation of Irregularly Sampled Exponentially Decaying Sinusoids with Applications to RF Spectroscopy." Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 203, pp. 167-176, March 2010. (doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2009.12.015)

j5. S. Somasundaram, A. Jakobsson, & E. Gudmundson. "Robust NQR Signal Detection Allowing for Amplitude Uncertainties." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, pp. 887-894, March 2008. (doi:10.1109/TSP.2007.909041)

Patents and patent applications:

p1. S. D. Somasundaram, A. Jakobsson, M. Rowe, J. A. S. Smith, N. Butt, E. Gudmundson, and K. Althoefer, “Enhancing Signals”, European Patent Office Publication No. WO2009118530. Publication date: Oct. 1, 2009.

Conference papers:

c1. E. Gudmundson, A. Jakobsson, and F. Gran. “Overcoming the Nyquist Limit in Blood Flow Velocity Estimation.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonic Symposium (IUS’12), Dresden, Germany, Oct. 7-10, 2012.

c2. E. Gudmundson, P. Wirfält, A. Jakobsson, and M. Jansson. “An ESPRIT-Based Parameter Estimator for Spectroscopic Data.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP’12), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Aug. 5-8, 2012.

c3. R. R. Ingle, J. K. Barral, M. Björk, E. Gudmundson, P. Stoica, and D. G. Nishimura. “SNR Requirements for T1 and T2 Estimation using bSSFP.” In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Melbourne, Australia, May 5-11, 2012.

c4. M. Björk, R. R. Ingle, J. K. Barral, E. Gudmundson, D. G. Nishimura, and P. Stoica. “Optimality of Equally-Spaced Phase Increments for Banding Removal in bSSFP.” In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Melbourne, Australia, May 5-11, 2012.

c5. M. Björk, E. Gudmundson, J. K. Barral, and P. Stoica. “Signal processing algorithms for removing banding artifacts in MRI”, in Proceedings of the 19^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2011), Barcelona, Spain, August 29 – September 2, 2011. (Received Best Student Paper Award.)

c6. E. Gudmundson, A. Jakobsson, J. A. Jensen, and P. Stoica. "An Iterative Adaptive Approach for Blood Velocity Estimation Using Ultrasound", in Proceedings of the 18^th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2010), Aalborg, Denmark, August 23-27, 2010.

c7. E. Gudmundson, A. Jakobsson, and P. Stoica. “NQR-Based Explosives Detection - An Overview”, in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, Iasi, Romania, July 9-10, 2009.

c8. E. Gudmundson, J. Ling, P. Stoica, J. Li, and A. Jakobsson. “Spectral Estimation of Damped Sinusoids in the Case of Irregularly Sampled Data”, in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, Iasi, Romania, July 9-10, 2009.

c9. J. K. Barral, N. Stikov, E. Gudmundson, P. Stoica & D. G. Nishimura. ”Skin T1 Mapping at 1.5T, 3T, and 7T.” In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 18-24, 2009.

c10. E. Gudmundson, A. Jakobsson, I. J. F. Poplett & J. A. S. Smith. “Detection and Classification of Liquid Explosives Using NMR.” In Proceedings of the 34^th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19 - 24, 2009.

c11. P. Babu, E. Gudmundson & P. Stoica. “Optimal Preconditioning for the Interpolation of Missing Data in a Band-Limited Sequence.” In Proceedings of the 42^nd International Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, October 26-29, 2008.

c12. P. Babu, E. Gudmundson & P. Stoica. “Automatic Cepstrum-Based Smoothing of the Periodogram via Cross-Validation.” In Proceedings of the 16^th European Signal Processing Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 25-29, 2008.

c13. E. Gudmundson & P. Stoica. "On Denoising via Penalized Least-Squares Rules." In Proceedings of the 33^rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 30 - April 5, 2008.

c14. E. Gudmundson, A. Jakobsson, & S. Somasundaram. "On the Reconstruction of Gapped Sinusoidal Data." In Proceedings of the 33^rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 30 - April 5, 2008.

c15. E. Gudmundson & A. Jakobsson. “Efficient Algorithms for Computing the Capon and APES Filters.” In Proceedings of the 41^st International Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, Nov 4-7, 2007.

c16. S. Somasundaram, A. Jakobsson, & E. Gudmundson. "Robust NQR Signal Detection." In Proceedings of the 32^nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 15-20, 2007.

c17. E. Gudmundson, N. Sandgren, & P. Stoica. ”Automatic Smoothing of Periodograms.” In Proceedings of the 31^st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.

c18. Y. Selén, E. Gudmundson, & P. Stoica. “An Approach to Sparse Model Selection and Averaging.” In Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Sorrento, Italy, April 24-27, 2006.

Submitted papers:

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Awards & Honours

• Co-author of the contribution that has received the Best Student Paper Award at the 19th European Signal Processing Conference, Eusipco 2011, Barcelona, Spain, 2011.
• “Best Student in the Natural Science Program” at Vasaskolan, Gävle, 1996.

Language Proficiencies

Swedish: native, English: fluent, French: fluent, Spanish: good, German: average, Russian: basic.

Teaching

I have been responsible for the project part of the course in Transform Methods given by the Department of Mathematics at Uppsala University. I have also taught in the courses named Spectral Processing of Signals, and Automatic Control given at the Department of IT at Uppsala University, where I have been responsible for computer and process laboratory work, homework assignments, and examination. The feedback from the students has been very positive.

Extracurricular Activities

• Member of the board of directors of the Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University, fall 2006 – fall 2008, deputy member spring 2009 – spring 2010.
• Coach for Uppsala Volleyboll Sällskap, a volleyball team in div. 1 and Allsvenskan 2009/2010.
• Volleyball player for Tierp VBK in the top division (Elitserien) in Sweden 1997/1998, 1998/1999 and 2000/2001.
• Playing coach in VK Plazir, volleyball team in div. 1 2005/2006, 2004/2005 and 2003/2004, div. 2 2002/2003.
• Member of the committee of Uppsala Volleyboll 2003/2004.
• Exchange student 1993/1994 in Dordogne, southwestern France, lived with a French family and attended a French high school.

References

Referees available on request.

Contact Details

Full address: Erik Gudmundson

Mathematical Statistics

Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Lund University

P. O. Box 118

SE - 221 00 Lund

SWEDEN

Email address: erikg@maths.lth.se

Web page: http://www.maths.lth.se/matstat/staff/erikg

Phone: +46 46 22 24736

Fax: +46 46 22 24623