Doru Calin, Mediatek USA
AVP, Head of U.S. 6G Wireless Research Center and the Lead Research Scientist, 6G
Dr. Calin is AVP, Head of the U.S. 6G Wireless Research Center and the Lead Research Scientist, 6G at MediaTek USA. In this role, he leads MediaTek’s advanced research for next generation cellular technologies. Prior to that, after starting his career with Motorola Research Labs, Paris, France, he joined Bell Labs in New Jersey, where he led the creation and incubation of novel technologies from inception stage to field trials in customer networks and market adoption and became a Bell Labs Fellow. He was a Sr. Director and the Edge Cloud Innovation Domain Leader at Nokia Mobile Networks’ CTO. He also spearheaded one of the fastest growing businesses with Nokia Enterprise, as the Head of private wireless networks for digital industries in North America.
Doru holds 37 independent patents awarded in multiple countries and over 100 peer-reviewed publications/tutorials/keynotes. Dr. Calin is an Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Wireless Communications and served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters and as an Editorial Board Member of Springer’s Wireless Personal Communications Journal. For the past fifteen years, he has been also serving as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City. Doru received a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, and a PhD (High Hons.) in computer systems networking and telecommunications from the Universitė de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.