Hirley Alves

Short Bio

Hirley Alves is an Associate Professor and the Machine-type Wireless Communications Group leader at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu.  

He is the Thematic Area Leader of Strategic Research Area 1 - Theme C: Massive Wireless Automation under the 6G Flagship Program. 

Hirley is working on massive connectivity and ultra-reliable low-latency communications for future 6G wireless networks, 6G resilience, semantic and goal-oriented communications, distributed processing and learning, and reinforcement learning. 

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 ISWCS 2019, the General Co-Chair of the 1st 6G Summit, Levi 2019, and ISWCS 2021, as well as the Chair of PIRMC 2021 Track 1 and the 6G Resilience Summit 2025. 

Research interests

• Machine-type communications (MTC)

• Massive and critical MTC. 

• 6G and 6G Resilience 

• Distributed learning and reinforcement learning

• Satellite IoT, Direct-to-Satellite connectivity

• Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communications 

• LPWANs, Energy Efficiency, and Wireless Energy Transfer