Officers

Robert W. Heath Jr. is the Charles Lee Powell Chair in Wireless Communications (and full Professor) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He is also President and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. From 2020-2023 he was the Lampe Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University and co-founder of 6GNC. From 2002-2020 he was with The University of Texas at Austin, most recently as Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering and Director of UT SAVES. He authored ``Introduction to Wireless Digital Communication'' (Prentice Hall, 2017) and ``Digital Wireless Communication: Physical Layer Exploration Lab Using the NI USRP'' (National Technology and Science Press, 2012), and co-authored ``Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications'' (Prentice Hall, 2014) and ``Foundations of MIMO Communication'' (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Dr. Heath has been a co-author of a number award winning conference and journal papers including recently the 2017 Marconi Prize Paper Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award, and the 2022 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award. Other notable awards include the 2017 EURASIP Technical Achievement award, the 2019 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the 2021 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James Evans Avant Garde Award, and the 2025 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal. In 2011, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow. In 2017, he was selected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2024, he was selected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member-at-large on the IEEE Communications Society Board-of-Governors (2020-2022) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board-of-Governors (2016-2018). He was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine from 2018-2020. He is also a licensed Amateur Radio Operator, a Private Pilot, a registered Professional Engineer in Texas. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineers.

Matteo Nerini is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Lab, at Imperial College London, UK. His research interests include signal processing and wireless communications, in particular beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs) and analog computing.

He received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2018 and 2020, respectively, the M.Sc. degree in communication technology from NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, in 2020, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Imperial College London, UK, in 2024. He received the Licence of Collegio Superiore, the school of excellence of the University of Bologna, in 2020. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Chair of Signal Processing Methods, at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2023. He was awarded the Eryl Cadwallader Davies Prize in 2025 for the best PhD thesis in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial, and the Imperial College London PhD Prize by G-Research in 2025 for the second-best PhD thesis at Imperial.