Short Bio
Research Interests
Onel L. A. López (S'17-M'20) 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 2013-2015 he served as a specialist in telematics at the Cuban telecommunications company (ETECSA). 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 book entitled "Wireless RF Energy Transfer in the massive IoT era: towards sustainable zero-energy networks'', Wiley, Dec 2021. He currently holds an Assistant Professorship (tenure track) in sustainable wireless communications engineering in 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
RF wireless power transfer
energy harvesting
ultra-reliable communications
stochastic geometry
detection and estimation
network coding
wireless green communications
News
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!
04/2023 - Guest Editor of a Special Issue on "IoT and Sensor Networks for SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities" in Frontiers in Communications and Networks. Deadline October 11, 2023, but submitted papers are published immediately after acceptance!
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. 2023 but submitted papers are published immediately after acceptance!
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
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
