Fredrik Rusek received the Ph.D. degree in communication theory in 2007 from Lund University, Sweden. Since then he has remained at Lund University, currently as associate Professor. In 2011-2014 he was 50% with Huawei in Lund, and from 2017 and onwards, he splits his time between Lund University and Sony Corporation.

His research interests include communication theory and applied information theory.