Frank H. P. Fitzek of IEEE-USA's Media Relations

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This issue features The Metaverse: The Metaverse: How Communications Engineering is Shaping Our Future. Prof. Frank H.P. Fitzek, Chair Head, TU Dresden, will share his work in metaverse, the tactile internet and the need for novel communication approaches. The resources shared in the webinar and in the TryEngineering Tuesday student resource can be used to help students explore, engage, and get inspired. 

Biography:

Frank H. P. Fitzek

A Professor and head of the “Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks” at TU Dresden coordinating the 5G Lab Germany. He is the spokesman of the DFG Cluster of Excellence CeTI.

He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology – Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) – Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. In 2003 he joined Aalborg University as Associate Professor and later became Professor.

He co-founded several start-up companies starting with acticom GmbH in Berlin in 1999. He has visited various research institutes including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), VTT, and Arizona State University. In 2005 he won the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC and received the Young Elite Researcher Award of Denmark.

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