Gerhard Fettweis

Bio: Gerhard Fettweis earned his Ph.D. degree from Aachen University of Technololgy (RWTH) in 1990. From 1990 to 1991, he was Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, developing signal processing innovations for IBM’s disk drive products. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Scientist with TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA, responsible for signal processor IC development projects for cellular phone chip-sets. Since 1994 he holds the Vodafone Chair at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Gerhard Fettweis has co-authored 500 publications and more than 25 patent families. He was TPC Chair of IEEE ICC 2009 (Dresden), and chair of the 2012 Technology Time Machine (TTM) conference. Among receiving other awards, as the Alcatel-Lucent Research Award, he is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering. During his career, Dr. Fettweis has led research on wireless transmission and chip design, helped establish eleven tech start-ups and secured €500 million in funding for projects in broadband wireless, network performance measurement, satellite communications, IoT solutions, and machine vision for manufacturing. Start-ups founded by Dr. Fettweis include: Systemonic (now NXP and ST-NXP Wireless), Radioplan (Actix), Signalion, InCircuit, Dresden Silicon (Signalion), Freedelity, RadioOpt, and Blue Wonder Communications. In his current role of “Vodafone Academic Ambassador”, he assists Vodafone in strategic guidance of international academic research collaborations.