Short Bio

Hirley Alves is Associate Professor and 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 5GB and 6G wireless networks. 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, and PIRMC 2021 Track 1 Chair. 

Research interests

• Machine-type communications (MTC)

• Ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC)

• Massive machine-type communications (mMTC)

• LPWANs, Energy Efficiency and Wireless Energy Transfer 

• Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communications 

• Satellite IoT, Direct-to-Satellite connectivity

• Machine learning, 6G