Short Bio

Hirley Alves is Associate Professor and Head of the Machine-type Wireless Communications Group at the 6G Flagship, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu. He is actively working on massive connectivity and ultra-reliable low latency communications for future wireless networks, 5GB and 6G, full-duplex communications, and physical-layer security. He leads the URLLC activities for the 6G Flagship Program. He has received several awards and has been the organizer, chair, TPC and tutorial lecturer for several renowned international conferences. He is the General Chair of the ISWCS’2019 and the General Co-Chair of the 1st 6G Summit, Levi 2019, and ISWCS 2021.

Research interests

• Machine-type communications (MTC)

• Ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC)

• Massive machine type communications (mMTC)

• Communications networks for IoT

• Wireless Energy Transfer

• Full-duplex wireless communications

• PHY-security

• Cooperative diversity and HARQ mechanisms