Emilio Calvanese Strinati

New-6G Program Director, CEA-LETI

Dr. Emilio Calvanese Strinati obtained his Engineering Master degree in 2001 from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and his PhD in Engineering Science in 2005. He then started working at Motorola Labs in Paris in 2002. Then in 2006, he joined CEA/LETI as a research engineer. From 2007, he becomes a Ph.D. supervisor. From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Calvanese Strinati has been the co-chair of the wireless working group in GreenTouch Initiative which deals with design of future energy-efficient communication networks. From2011 to 2016 he wasthe Smart Devices & Telecommunications European collaborative strategic programs Director between December 2016 and January, 2020 is was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications Scientific and Innovation Director. Since February 2020 he is the Nanotechnologies and Wireless for 6G (New-6G)Program Director focusing on future 6G technologies. December 2013 he has been elected as one of the five representatives of academia and research center in the Net!Works 5G PPP ETP.From 2017 to 2018 he was one of the three moderators of the 5G future network expert group.Between2016 and 2018 he wasthe coordinator of the H2020 joint Europe and South Korea 5GCHAMPIONprojectthat showcased at the 2018 winter Olympic Games, 5G technologies in realistic operational environments. Since July 2018 he is the coordinator of the H2020 joint Europe and South Korea 5G-AllStar project.Since 2018 he holds the French Research Director Habilitation (HDR).In 2021 he started the coordination of the H2020 European project RISE-6G, focusing on the design and operation of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in future high frequency 6G networks.Since February 2021 he is also the director of the New-6G (Nano Electronics & Wireless for 6G) initiative, dedicated to the required convergence between microelectronic & telecom, hardware & software, network & equipment for upcoming 6G technologies.

E. Calvanese Strinati has published around 140 papers in international conferences, journals and books chapters, given more than 200international invited talks, keynotes and tutorials. He is the main inventor or co-inventor of more than 65patents. He has organized more than 100international conferences, workshops, panels and special sessions on green communications, heterogeneous networks and cloud computing hosted in international conferences as IEEE GLOBCOM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, EuCnC, IFIP, EUCnC and European Wireless.