6G @ Universities Panel : Academic view of 6G

Professor and Dean

Albert P. Pisano is Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego and Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives.

Truchard Family Endowed Chair in Engineering and Director of 6G

Jeffrey Andrews received the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.  He is the Truchard Family Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where is Director of 6G@UT and conducts research on advanced wireless communication systems.   

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Monisha Ghosh is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the Policy Outreach Director for SpectrumX, the first NSF Center for Spectrum Innovation and the co-chair of the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council (TAC) Working Group on Advanced Spectrum Sharing.

6G ESS program Vice-Director & Professor

Prof. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in various domains of ICT development. The projects under his command have resulted in waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications.

Scientific Director & CEO at Barkhausen Institute & Vodafone Chair Professor

Gerhard is member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (Acatech), the US National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of IEEE, NAI, EURASIP, ITG, WWRF, and DATE. He is active in organizing IEEE conferences. 

Professor

Professor Heath works in wireless communications, especially the area known as MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) wireless communication for more than two decades.

Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things

Tommaso Melodia is the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the Director of Research for the PAWR Project Office.

David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport founded the NYU WIRELESS research center in 2012 and the wireless research centers at the University of Texas Austin (WNCG) and Virginia Tech (MPRG) earlier in his career.