Team members

Bio:

Onel L. A. López (S'17-M'20-SM'24) received the B.Sc. (1st class honors, 2013), M.Sc. (2017), and D.Sc. (with distinction, 2020) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Central University of Las Villas (Cuba), the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil), and the University of Oulu (Finland), respectively. From 2013 to 2015, he served as a specialist in telematics at the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA). He was on a six-month research visit to Rice University and the University of Houston, Texas, US in 2024. He is a collaborator to the 2016 Research Award given by the Cuban Academy of Sciences, a co-recipient of the 2019 and 2023 IEEE European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Best Student Paper Award, the recipient of both the 2020 Best Doctoral Thesis Award granted by Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK and Tekniska Föreningen i Finland TFiF in 2021 and the 2022 Young Researcher Award in the field of technology in Finland. He is co-author of the books entitled "Wireless RF Energy Transfer in the Massive IoT Era: Towards Sustainable Zero-Energy Networks'', Wiley, 2021, and "Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications: Foundations, Enablers, System Design, and Evolution Towards 6G'', Now Publishers, 2023. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and IEEE Communications Letters, and an Associate Professor (tenure track) in sustainable wireless communications engineering at the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), Oulu, Finland. His research interests include sustainable IoT, energy harvesting, wireless RF energy transfer, wireless connectivity, TinyML, machine-type communications, and cellular-enabled positioning systems.