Onel López
D.Sc. (Tech), Associate Professor
University of Oulu, Finland
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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, machine-type communications, and cellular-enabled positioning systems.
machine-type communications
low-power IoT protocols
RF wireless power transfer
energy harvesting
ultra-reliable communications
stochastic geometry
detection and estimation
network coding
wireless green communications
News
02/2025 - NEWS: The 2nd International Workshop on Energy Neutral and Sustainable IoT Devices and Infrastructure is to be held in Leuven, Belgium, as part of EWCN 2025.
01/2025 - New PhD student: Shahab Jahanbazi. Welcome!
01/2025 - New Post-doctoral researcher: Mateen Ashraf. Welcome!
01/2025 - Starting as Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters.
11/2024 - Welcome to the Semantic Communications enabled Intelligent Wireless Networks ANTS workshop (Dec. 15, Assam, India)
10/2024 - Welcome to the 2024 1st International Workshop on Energy Neutral and Sustainable IoT Devices and Infrastructure (Oct. 21, Paris)
09/2024 - Starting as Associate Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
08/2024 - Starting as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. Area: Wireless Communications II. Topics: RF-WPT, MTC, Cellular networks.
07/2024 - European SNS project AMBIENT-6G, where my group is a participant, received funding from Horizon Europe. Keep tuned for a call for jobs by Autumn.
07/2024 - Promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Oulu.
06/2024 - Call for Workshop Papers: "2024 1st International Workshop on Energy Neutral and Sustainable IoT Devices and Infrastructure". Submission deadline: August 13, 2024. Submission link here. Welcome to submit!
06/2024 - Project ECO-LITE received funding from the Research Council of Finland (former Academy of Finland) as part of my RCF Fellowship. Keep tuned for a call for jobs by the end of August.
05/2024 - Elevation to IEEE Senior Member!
05/2024 - Tutorial at DySPAN (Washington, US): "Interference Management and Medium Access Techniques for Dependable Communications in the 6G Era"
04/2024 - Started a 6-month research visit to Rice University and the University of Houston, Texas, USA. Concluded in 10/2024.
03/2024 - New visitor: PhD student Polyana Camargo de Lacerda from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. Topic: RF EH Circuit Modeling. Welcome!
02/2024 - Leatile Marata defended his Doctoral Thesis. Here is the thesis link. Congratulations!
08/2023 - New visitor: MSc student Ophelia Giannini from Università di Bologna, Italy. Topic: Energy and AoI-aware MAC protocols. Welcome!
06/2023 - Gabriel Martins de Jesus won the "Best Paper on Signal Processing" award at EuCNC 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with our work "Age-of-Information Dependent Random Access in NOMA-Aided Multiple-Relay Slotted ALOHA" Congratulations!
05/2023 - Hamza Khan got his Master's degree. Here is the thesis link. Congratulations!
05/2023 - New visitor: PhD student Felipe A. Tondo from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Topic: Satelite-based IoT connectivity. Welcome!
01/2023 - New PhD Students: Gabriel Martins de Jesus and Amirhossein Azarbahram. Welcome!
12/2022 - New PhD Student: Abdul Basit. Welcome!
11/2022 - Plenary Speaker at the IEEE Workshop on Communication Networks and Power Systems (WCNPS): “Enabling Sustainable IoT: A look at RF Wireless Power Transfer Technology”
10/2022 - New PhD student: Rafael Valente da Silva. Welcome!
09/2022 - Project UPRISING starts.
09/2022 - Guest Editor of a Special Issue on "RF Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer for the IoT" in MDPI Sensors. Deadline Feb. 2024 but submitted papers are published immediately after acceptance! Closed!
06/2022 - Invited Speaker of IEEE Spectrum Webinar entitled: "How 6G promises to build a sustainable future"
06/2022 - Project: UPRISING received funding from the Academy of Finland
06/2022 - Granted the Young Researcher Award in the field of Technology, Finland
06/2022 - Tutorial at EuCNC & 6G Summit (Grenoble, France): "Wireless RF Energy Harvesting & Transfer for Massive IoT"
05/2022 - Invited Speaker of IEEE (ITS Chapter, Bangalore Section) Webinar entitled: "Towards a Sustainable IoT: A Look at Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer Technologies"
02/2022 - New PhD Student: Prasoon Raghuwanshi. Welcome!
12/2021 - New PhD Student: David Ruiz-Guirola. Welcome!
11/2021 - Granted the Best Dissertation Award in the field of Technology, Finland
10/2021 - Invited Speaker at International Workshop on Energy Conversion and Storage (IWECS)
09/2021 - General TPC Secretary of PIMRC 2021
05/2021 - Topic Editor of MDPI Sensors journal
01/2021 - Promoted to Assistant Professor at the University of Oulu
05/2020 - PhD Graduation with honors
Contact:
Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC)
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE)
University of Oulu
Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 3, P.O. Box 4500,
FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland
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