KU Leuven is currently by far the largest university in Belgium in terms of research funding and expenditure (€740 million in 2023) and is a charter member of LERU. KU Leuven conducts fundamental and applied research in all academic disciplines with a clear international orientation. In the Times Higher Education ranking KU Leuven is ranked as the 14h European university, while in the Reuters Top 100 of the World’s most innovative institutions, KU Leuven was listed as the first European university, for four years in a row. In Horizon 2020, KU Leuven has been granted 669 projects (€ 378,5 million), ranking fourth HES institution with regard to number of signed grants. KU Leuven takes up the 14th place of European HES institutions hosting ERC grants). The over 100 ERC grants since 2007 involving KU Leuven researchers, (including affiliates with VIB and IMEC) confirm that KU Leuven is a breeding ground and attractive destination for the world’s best researchers.
ESAT-WaveCoRe at KU Leuven has large 5G and IoT test facilities. Specifically, it has a massive MIMO SDR testbed consisting of 45 NI USRP-RIOs and has ample expertise in data-driven and deep learning. The group has a GPU server facility (NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti cores). The group also has several IoT testbeds, such as a 70 node BLE mesh testbed and a 36-node dense VLC testbed. M-group at KU Leuven has 30 years+ of experience in Electromagnetic Compatibility. The research facilities consist of a full pre-compliance laboratory for EMC testing with unique double coupled reverberation chamber and an anechoic chamber for EMC pre-compliance measurements and research, etc.