Joerg Widmer
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Joerg Widmer is Research Professor and Research Director of IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain. Before, he held positions at DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, Germany and EPFL, Switzerland. He was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, USA, University College London, UK, and TU Darmstadt, Germany. His research focuses on wireless networks, ranging from extremely high frequency millimeter-wave communication and MAC layer design to mobile network architectures. Joerg Widmer authored more than 200 conference and journal papers and three IETF RFCs, and holds 14 patents. He was awarded an ERC consolidator grant, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, a Spanish Ramon y Cajal grant, as well as nine best paper awards. He is an IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Member of the ACM.
Sundeep Rangan
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Sundeep Rangan received the B.A.Sc. at the University of Waterloo, Canada and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. He has held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Bell Labs.
In 2000, he co-founded (with four others) Flarion Technologies, a spin off of Bell Labs, that developed Flash OFDM, one of the first cellular OFDM data systems and pre-cursor to 4G systems including LTE and WiMAX. In 2006, Flarion was acquired by Qualcomm Technologies where Dr. Rangan was a Director of Engineering involved in OFDM infrastructure products. He joined the ECE department at NYU Tandon (formerly NYU Polytechnic) in 2010. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Director of NYU WIRELESS, an academic-industry research center researching next-generation wireless systems. His research interests are in wireless communications, signal processing, information theory and control theory.
Michele Zorzi
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Michele Zorzi was born in 1966, and has been a Professor of Telecommunications at the School of Engineering of the University of Padova since 2003. He received the Laurea Degree and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Prior to his current appointment, he was a faculty member at the Politecnico di Milano (1993-1996), a Research Scientist at the Center for Wireless Communications, University of California at San Diego (1995-1998), and an Associate Professor (1998-2000) and then Professor (2000-2003) at the University of Ferrara. He has many international contacts and collaborations, and has been PI or co-PI of numerous research projects, both in Europe and in the US, as well as more than 20 other projects funded by different funding agencies and industrial companies.
Xinyu Zhang
speaker
Research Interest:
- Wireless systems and networking: next-generation millimeter-wave network architectures and physical-layer informed mobile applications.
- Mobile and ubiquitous computing: ubiquitous and wireless sensing systems for healthcare, mobile interaction, etc.
Research Methodology:
- System implementation: on software radios (WARP/USRP), Android, Linux network drivers, and customized hardware platforms.
- Theoretical modeling: Signal processing, computational imaging, machine learning, convex optimization, probability models.
Antonio de la Oliva
organizer
Antonio de la Oliva received his telecommunications engineering degree in 2004 and his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Universidad Carlos III Madrid (UC3M), Spain, where he has been an associate professor since then. He is an active contributor to IEEE 802 where he has served as Vice-Chair of IEEE 802.21b and Technical Editor of IEEE 802.21d. He has also served as an Editor of several journals and magazines, including Elsevier Computer Communications and IEEE Communications Magazine. He has published more than 50 papers on different networking areas. He has participated in several EU funded research projects and he is currently coordinating the H2020 EC/TW joint project 5G-DIVE.
Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain
organizer
Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain is a Senior Technical Program Director for PAWR and Director of Industry Engagement for Institute of Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University. In this role, he is in charge of setting strategic goals and the research agenda for a $100M public-private partnership for the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program and $25M DARPA Colosseum program. He serves as a Board Member for the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, Founding member for Magma Core Foundation, university representative for O-RAN Alliance, Telecom Infra Project and co-chair on organizing committee and program committees for 6GSymposium, EuCNC,IEEE InfoCom and ACM WinTech. His numerous professional publications and experience exemplify use-inspired basic research in the field of networking technologies such as LTE, 5G, AI/ML, edge computing and Internet of Things. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He received his M.S. degree from Tufts University and M.B.A. from Boston University with High Honors.