Gerhard Fettweis, TU-Dresden
Scientific Director & CEO at Barkhausen Institute & Vodafone Chair Professor
Gerhard P. Fettweis, earned a Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTH Aachen (Germany) in 1990. After a postdoc at IBM Research, San Jose, he joined TCSI, Berkeley, USA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany. Since 2018 he is also founding Scientific Director & CEO of the Barkhausen Institute.
He researches wireless communications and chip design, coordinates 5G++Lab Germany and the German Cluster-for-Future SEMECO. His team spun-out 19 tech startups and he initiated 6 platform entities. 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.