Kun Yang

Founder & CEO at Super Radio AS

Kun Yang has more than 10 years’ project experience on land-based maritime communications. He is the founder of a Norwegian high-tech telecommunication startup, Super Radio AS, which is maritime 5G pioneer for ocean digitalization and autonomous ship. Since 2016, he is leading the world’s first maritime 5G project, “LTE, WIFI and 5G Massive MIMO Communications in Maritime Propagation Environments (MAMIME)”, funded by Norwegian Research council. His team invented a dedicated maritime 5G solution promoted in a top 5G blog, and provided 5G test solution for small-version yara-birkeland autonomous boat, which is regarded as the world’s first electric autonomous container ship. Their solutions can cover up to 50-70 km from coastline stably with up to 200 Mbps.

He received his Ph.D from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway in 2013. He was with IFSTTAR as PostDoc and worked in an EU Rail2shift lighthouse project in 2015.