Coming up: The IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) invites you to the “2+1” online event

Title: The State of MIMO: Anno 2024

Date/Time: October 8, 2024 8.00am – 9:00am PT / 3.00pm – 4:00pm UTC / 5.00pm – 6:00pm CEST

Recording of the event: link

Motivation: Since its inception, MIMO became a must-have technology in wireless systems. During the past three decades it came a long way and its evolutionary branches include extremely large arrays, near-field communication, joint communication and sensing, and several others. The Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) is pleased to organize an online event that will have a critical look at the state of MIMO technology. We have invited two pioneers and stalwarts of MIMO technology, Angel Lozano and Robert W. Heath Jr., who will share their views on various MIMO aspects, such as the role it will play in 6G, energy consumption, which are the relevant research topics, and many more.

Detailed Agenda (time in CEST)

Angel Lozanois a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999, following which he joined Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, now Nokia) in Holmdel, NJ, where he remained until 2008. Prof. Lozano is a Fellow of the IEEE. He served as area editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2017-2022) and as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2011-2014) and the IEEE Transactions on Communications (1999-2009). He has guest-edited various journal special issues related to MIMO and participated in MIMO standardization activities at 3GPP. He was the Chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee (2013-2014) and elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society (2012-2014). Prof. Lozano is the coauthor of the textbook “Foundations of MIMO Communication,” released by Cambridge University Press in 2019. His papers have received several awards, including the 2009 Stephen O. Rice prize, the 2016 Fred W. Ellersick prize, and the 2016 Communications Society & Information Theory Society joint paper award.

Robert W. Heath Jr. is the Charles Lee Powell Chair in Wireless Communications at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, he was the Lampe Distinguished Professor at the North Carolina State University, and the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He authored  “Introduction to Wireless Digital Communication” (Prentice Hall in 2017) and “Digital Wireless Communication: Physical Layer Exploration Lab Using the NI USRP” (National Technology and Science Press in 2012). He co-authored “Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications” (Prentice Hall in 2014) and “Foundations of MIMO Communications” (Cambridge 2019). He was a member-at-large of the IEEE Communications Society Board-of-Governors (2020-2022) and a member-at-large on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board-of-Governors (2016-2018).  He was EIC of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine from 2018-2020. He is a licensed Amateur Radio Operator, a registered Professional Engineer in Texas, a Private Pilot, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the AAAS and the IEEE.

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