I'm a Professor of Computer Engineering at HEIG-VD. I received my PhD degree in Communication Systems from EPFL.

Stephan Robert was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He graduated as an engineer (BSc) in microengineering from the Ecole d'ingenieurs du Locle, Switzerland , with first honors. He received the ing. dipl. degree (MSc) in electrical engineering (MSc thesis with Prof. Gardiol, Mallefer Award ) and the "Docteur ès Sciences'' degree (PhD) with Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec , both from EPFL , Lausanne (Switzerland). From 1996 to 1998, he has been a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at UC Berkeley with Prof. Jean Walrand. He worked as a researcher, consultant, engineer and projects manager for many companies during 8 years: Swisscom (Bern), Huber & Suhner (Herisau), ABB (Turgi), GDA (Bern) and Cisco Systems (San Jose, California). Since 2001, he has been at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences (UAS), Yverdon (HEIG-Vd), where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He spent his summer 2001 at Berkeley and in 2002 he did take a course in entrepreneurship at CREATE. His interests are on classical networking, quality of service, wireless networks (WSNs, UWB), security and stochastic modelling, still... During his Master's thesis he developed the first prototype of an SSFIP antenna which is manufactured by Huber+Suhner and which are now wide spread all over our country for the 900 MHz-Band. During his PhD, he discovered new models of Markov chains exhibiting self-similarities over a finite timescale. At Swisscom , he was the project leader of "Mobile Unlimited"(which won the highest application distinction, the GSM award in Cannes, March 2005) during the initiation phase (from the idea to the first prototype). He received the Rotary Club Award in 1986 and the Nokia-Maillefer Award in 1991. In 2004, he received the ITG best paper Award of the year 2003. He also served as an editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, as a member of the International Program Committee for IASTED-CIIT and as a TPC member for IEEE-ICC. He was also much involved in the definition of the new "Master of Science in Engineering (MSE)" degree for UAS students where he is responsible for the "Stochastic Modelling" module. On the political side he has been a "député" (deputy) at the "Grand Conseil Neuchâtelois"(2005-2009).