Technical Panel Sessions

Tengjiao Wang is a principal research engineer and assistant chief scientist with Wireless Network RAN Research Department, Huawei Technologies CO., Ltd, China. He received his B.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and was a visiting scholar with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. His research interests lie in the fields of 5G-Advanced wireless communications, electromagnetic information theory, visible light communications, and machine learning for wireless communications. He has organized many international activities on electromagnetic information theory, including the workshops at IEEE VTC2022-Spring and IEEE VTC2023-Spring, and the industry panel at IEEE GLOBECOM 2022.

Andreas F. Molisch is Professor and Solomon Golomb – Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair at the University of Southern California. He has been working on wireless propagation channels for more than 25 years, leading, or contributing to, a variety of standardization groups, and authoring a number of academic papers in this field. Among his contributions is the double-directional channel model for MIMO systems that is now used in essentially all modern channel models. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Author (his h-index is > 100), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Fellow of NAI, IEEE, AAAS, IET, Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and recipient of numerous awards.

Dajana Cassioli is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at the DISIM - University of L'Aquila, Italy. She is the Chair of the WIE AG of the IEEE Italy Section. Her research interests span over wireless communications, 5G/B5G Networks and Cybersecurity. She is the Coordinator of L'Aquila’s Node of the CINI National Laboratory on Cybersecurity. In 2010 and 2016 she has been awarded the ERC-StG VISION and the ERC-PoC iCARE. She is author and co-author of tens of publications on prestigious International Journals and Conferences. She served as the Industry Co-Chair of PIMRC 2018, WIE Chair for RTSI 2018, RTSI 2019, RTSI 2020, MELECON 2020 and 2020 IEEE Int. Workshop for Industry 4.0 and IoT, and as TPC member of several International Conferences (ICC, PIMRC, VTC, GLOBECOM). She is an Editor of the IET Elec. Lett. and IEEE Comm. Lett., and ITL and ETT John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Leyre Azpilicueta is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow (Researcher & Professor) at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), in Spain. From 2015 to 2022, she was an Associate Professor and Researcher at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico. She is actively involved in several professional and editorial activities, acting as reviewer, advisory board member, associate/guest editor of top-rank journals and TPC member of international conferences. Her research interests are on radio propagation, mobile radio systems, ray tracing, channel modeling, wireless sensor networks, electromagnetic dosimetry, IoT networks and devices, 5G communication systems and vehicular communications. She has received numerous awards and recognitions over the past few years, including the IEEE Mojgan Daneshmand, IEEE Raj Mittra, IEEE Rising Stars, IEEE APS PhD Award, Best PhD thesis by COIT, Santander Young Professors, Distinguished Professor, and best Paper Award at 4 international conferences.

Leszek Raschkowski received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering in 2012 from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Currently, he is employed as a research associate and project manager at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin, Germany. Leszek is working on several research projects in the field of wireless communication. From 2013 to 2022, he actively contributed to 3GPP standardization work related to the radio access network as a regular delegate. Recently, he has taken over the leadership of the Prototype Development and System Integration group in the Wireless Communications and Networks department. He is currently working on a GPU-accelerated ray-tracing-based radio propagation simulator and is responsible for the 5G testbed activities at HHI. His research interests include measurement, modeling and simulation of radio propagation channels and performance analysis of wireless communication systems. This encompasses 3D MIMO, industrial factory floor deployments, aerial vehicles (drones) and satellites.

Prof. Chong Han is a John Wu and Jane Sun Endowed Associate Professor with the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University (UM-SJTU) Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and the Director of the Terahertz Wireless Communications (TWC) Laboratory. Since 2021, he has been affiliated with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 2016. His research interests include Terahertz and Millimeter-wave communications. He was a recipient of 2018 Elsevier NanoComNet (Nano Communication Networks Journal) Young Investigator Award, 2017 Shanghai Sailing Program 2017, and 2018 Shanghai Chen-guang Program. He is the TPC Chair to organize multiple IEEE and ACM conferences and workshops. He is a Co-Founder and the Vice-Chair of IEEE ComSoc Special Interest Group (SIG) on Terahertz Communications since 2021. He is a Guest Editor with IEEE JSAC, JSTSP, and IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology, an Editor with IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology since 2020.

Dr. Chris R. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the United States Naval Academy (USNA).  He is the Founder and Director of the USNA Wireless Measurements Group (WMG), a focused research group that specializes in spectrum, propagation, and field strength measurements in diverse environments and at frequencies ranging from 300 MHz to 28 GHz. From 2016-2018 he served as a Visiting Researcher at the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences in Boulder, CO where he concentrated on developing propagation models for cluttered environments.  His current research focuses on improving spectrum coexistence between active and passive technologies.  Dr. Anderson is a former Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Taro Eichler is Technology Manager for Wireless Communications and Photonics at Rohde & Schwarz in Munich with a Focus On 5G/6G Technologies. With 15 years of experience in wireless communication, he is currently working on 6G industry research projects covering THz communication, photonics and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Prior to joining Rohde & Schwarz, Taro worked for Intel Corporation as specialist for photonic communication solutions and for NTT Basic Research Laboratories. He also worked on research projects at The University of Tokyo in the field of quantum optics with a scholarship by the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation. He holds a diploma in physics from the Technical University of Munich with thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Bonn, Germany.

Tarun Chawla (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, in 2008. He joined Remcom, in 2009, and he is currently the Director of Business Development. His research interest includes millimeter-wave channel modeling.

Christos Masouros (SMIEEE, MIET) received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2004, and MSc by research and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently Full Professor in the Information and Communications.

Engineering research group, Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College London. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Awards in the IEEE GlobeCom 2015 and IEEE WCNC 2019 conferences, and has been recognized as an Exemplary Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, and as an Exemplary Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, and a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing issues “Exploiting Interference towards Energy Efficient and Secure Wireless Communications” and “Hybrid Analog / Digital Signal Processing for Hardware-Efficient Large Scale Antenna Arrays”. He is currently an elected member of the EURASIP SAT Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking.

Web site: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=CMASO14

Constantinos B. Papadias (Fellow, IEEE) is the founding Executive Director of the Research, Technology and Innovation Network (RTIN) of The American College of Greece (ACG), where he is also Professor, Head of the Smart Wireless Future Technologies (SWIFT) Lab and Scientific Director of the ACG Research Center (ACG-RC). He has published over 220 papers and 4 books and has received over 10000 citations for his work, with an h-index of 46. He has also made standards contributions and holds 12 patents. He was the Research Coordinator of the EU project PAINLESS on the topic of energy autonomous infrastructure-less wireless networks (2018-2022) and is currently the Technical Coordinator of the EU CHIST-ERA project FIREMAN on IoT networks. His distinctions include the Bell Labs President’s Award (2002), the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Young Author Best Paper Award (2003), and a Bell Labs Teamwork Award (2004) and a recent Best Paper Award at Globecom 2022. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society for 2012 -2013. He is a Fellow of IEEE since 2013 and Fellow of the European Alliance of Innovation (EAI) since 2019. He was recently elected Director-at-Large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Web site: https://acg150.acg.edu/persons/constantinos-b-papadias/