Cable-Tec Expo 2019

Henk Heijnen
Project Leader
Technicolor


Henk Heijnen has more than 30 years of expertise in building and leading innovation projects. He has worked in several high-tech companies / labs such as Ascom (CH), Lucent Bell Labs (US), Sextant Avionics (FR/EU) etc … His technical background mostly covers telecommunications, networks, hardware architecture and low-level software. In Technicolor, Henk started as a Technical Expert (telecommunications) and evolved toward the role of Site Manager in Bangalore, managing a team of 50+ sub-contractors working on SoC design for both our US and EU design centers. After this multicultural experience, Henk has been representing Technicolor in various EU-funded bodies such as MEDEA, CARTENE or ITEA and has successfully managed Technicolor participation in more than 15 cooperative projects. He has also represented Technicolor in various EU professional organizations. Henk co-led three PhD thesis and is the recipient of 9 patents. Research subjects: Henk is mainly interested in innovation and in applying advanced technologies to new products: 4/5G mobile phones networks, gateways, audio recognition, machine learning … Projects: After having led a research project devoted to understanding the possible usages of 4G+ / 5G technologies in the home environment, Henk is now leading a project devoted to sound recognition and self-learning IoT abnormal event detection on small footprint machines.

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