Officers

Founding Chair

Prof. Bruno Clerckx

Affiliation: Imperial College London, London, U.K. and Silicon Austria Labs (SAL), Graz, Austria

Email: b.clerckx [at] imperial.ac.uk

Bruno Clerckx

Bio of Prof. Bruno Clerckx

Bruno Clerckx (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor, the Head of the Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Lab, and the Deputy Head of the Communications and Signal Processing Group, within the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, London, U.K. He is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) where he is responsible for all research areas of Austria's top research center for electronic-based systems. He received the MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and the Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from Imperial College London, U.K. He worked for many years for Samsung Electronics, Korea, on 4G standardization (3GPP RAN1 and IEEE standards), and held various short- and long-term appointments at various institutions around the world, including Stanford University, Korea University, and Seoul National University. He has authored two books on “MIMO Wireless Communications” and “MIMO Wireless Networks”, 250 peer-reviewed international research papers, and 150 standards contributions, and is the inventor of 80 issued or pending patents. His research spans the general area of wireless communications and signal processing for wireless networks. He was an Elected Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society “Signal Processing for Communications and Networking” (SPCOM) Technical Committee. He served as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. He has also been a (lead) guest editor for special issues of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, IEEE ACCESS, the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING, and the PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE. He was an Editor for the 3GPP LTE-Advanced Standard Technical Report on CoMP. He received the prestigious Blondel Medal 2021 from France for exceptional work contributing to the progress of Science and Electrical and Electronic Industries, the 2021 Adolphe Wetrems Prize in mathematical and physical sciences from Royal Academy of Belgium, multiple awards from Samsung, IEEE best student paper award, and the EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) best paper award 2022. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IET, and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Vice Chair

Prof. Ross Murch

Affiliation: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Email: eermurch [at] ust.hk

Ross Murch

Bio of Prof. Ross Murch

Ross Murch (Fellow, IEEE) received the bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He was the Department Head of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, for two three-year terms, from 2009 to 2015. He is currently a Chair Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and an IAS Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Study, HKUST. His unique expertise lies in his intradisciplinary knowledge of both wireless communication systems and electromagnetics. He publishes in both disciplines and research highlights from this intradisciplinary approach including being one of the first to propose multiuser multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) (MU-MIMO) systems and pioneering compact MIMO antenna designs. In total, his research contributions include nearly 200 journal publications and 20 patents. He has successfully supervised over 50 research students. His research focuses on creating new RF wave technology for making a better world; this includes areas such as the Internet of Things, RF imaging, RF sensing, RF navigation, ambient RF systems, energy harvesting, electromagnetic information theory, 6G, multiport antenna systems, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Prof. Murch is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). He has been involved in IEEE activities including being an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the Chair of the IEEE Technology Committee on Wireless Communications. He has won several prizes including three teaching awards.

Vice Chair

Dr. Arman Shojaeifard

Affiliation: InterDigital, U.K.

Email: arman.shojaeifard [at] interdigital.com

Arman Shojaeifard

Bio of Dr. Arman Shojaeifard

Arman Shojaeifard (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in information systems engineering from the Imperial College London, in 2008, and the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in signal processing and the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from the King’s College London, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. He has extensive experience in project management, research, development, standardization of radio transmission technologies, protocols, and architectures. He is currently a R&I Senior Manager at InterDigital, where he is responsible for Radio Interface Research and Development at the Future Wireless Europe Laboratory. He also serves as the Chair of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (ISG RIS) and the Technical Manager of the CELTIC-NEXT European Collaborative Research and Development Project on AI-enabled Massive MIMO (AIMM). Prior to InterDigital, he was a Principal Researcher and the 3GPP RAN1 WG Delegate at British Telecommunications plc. Prior, he held postdoctoral research positions at University College London, University of Manchester, and King’s College London.

Vice Chair

Prof. Marco Di Renzo

Affiliation: CentraleSupélec, France

Email: marco.direnzo [at] l2s.centralesupelec.fr

Marco Di Renzo

Bio of Prof. Marco Di Renzo

Marco Di Renzo (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. He works as the Coordinator of the Communications and Networks Research Area of the Laboratory of Excellence DigiCosme, Paris-Saclay University, where he is a member of the Admission and Evaluation Committee of the Ph.D. School on Information and Communication Technologies and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications Group, Laboratory of Signals and Systems, CentraleSupelec. Currently, he is a CNRS Research Director (a Professor) with the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S), Paris-Saclay University—CNRS and CentraleSupelec, Paris, France. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. He is a Founding Member and the Vice Chair of the Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), where he serves as the Rapporteur for the work item on communication models, channel models, and evaluation methodologies. He is a fellow of the IET, AAIA, and Vebleo; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academia Europaea; and a Highly Cited Researcher. Also, he is a Fulbright Fellow, a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor, and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow. His recent research awards include the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE COMSOC Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2022 Michel Monpetit Prize from the French Academy of Sciences.

Vice Chair

Prof. Eduard A. Jorswieck

Affiliation: Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Email: e.jorswieck [at] tu-braunschweig.de

Eduard A. Jorswieck

Bio of Prof. Eduard A. Jorswieck

Eduard A. Jorswieck (Fellow, IEEE) was the Head of the Chair of Communications Theory and a Full Professor at Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Germany, from 2008 to 2019. He is currently the Managing Director of the Institute of Communications Technology and the Head of the Chair of Information Theory and Communications Systems and a Full Professor with Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany. He has coauthored some 160 journal articles, 15 book chapters, four monographs, and more than 300 conference papers. His research interests include communications. In 2006, he received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Since 2017, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer). He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Secretary

Mr. Matteo Nerini

Affiliation: Imperial College London, London, U.K.

Email: m.nerini20 [at] imperial.ac.uk

Matteo Nerini

Bio of Mr. Matteo Nerini

Matteo Nerini (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) is a Ph.D. student in the Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Lab at Imperial College London, London, UK. He received the B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2018, the M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2020, and the M.Sc. in Communication Technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, in 2020. His research interests include wireless channel feedback, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and deep learning for wireless communications.

Founding Members