Guest Lecture: Angel Lozano
December 06, 2024
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CAT
A203
Title
An Academic's Perspective on 6G Research
Speaker
Angel Lozano, professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
Bio
Angel Lozano is a professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and then joined Bell Labs in 1999, where he remained until 2008. Lozano served as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University from 2005 to 2008 and became an IEEE Fellow in 2014. He has held various editorial roles in IEEE journals and chaired the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee (2013-2014). Lozano has published extensively, holds 15 patents, and co-authored the textbook "Foundations of MIMO Communication." He has received multiple awards for his papers, held an ERC Advanced Grant from 2016-2021, was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2017, and is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE for 2023-2025
Abstract
With the 6th generation of wireless networks on the horizon, the time is right to reflect on what has been accomplished, on old and new challenges, on the research tools at our disposal, and on the evolution of wireless communications. This lecture intends to contribute to this reflection, not from the perspective of a manufacturer, operator, or user, but from a researcher's perspective. With this perspective, the presentation is organized around various ideas that relate to 6G, but that also have broader conceptual implications.