NextG Wireless R&D Challenges & Opportunities: The Remarkable Quest to Harness the EM Spectrum

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Join us for our next Consultants' Network meeting on Monday, June 3rd at 7:00PM. Independent consultant Akbar Sayeed PhD will provide a glimpse into the frontier of next generation wireless challenges and the opportunities they present.

As always, our meetings are free and open to anyone who is interested, not just consultants or IEEE members.

In this talk, I will present a high-level snapshot of current R&D challenges in the “wireless communications” landscape, informed by a recent NSF-NIST report (2023) on R&D gaps as well as recent and ongoing developments in the wireless ecosystem (industry, academia, national labs). The R&D snapshots reflect the challenges and opportunities in our continuing quest to harness the electromagnetic spectrum in space, time and frequency, including:

  1. High frequency operation and large bandwidths

  2. Massive MIMO arrays and multi-beamforming

  3. New time-frequency waveforms for high mobility

  4. Predictive and computationally tractable modeling of wireless propagation environments

These seemingly distinct R&D topics are connected through a unique personal perspective spanning mathematics, physics, information, computation and technology that I will share in this presentation with the hope of spurring further discussion and collaboration.


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  • Date: 03 Jun 2024
  • Time: 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM
  • All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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  • Starts 15 May 2024 12:00 AM
  • Ends 03 June 2024 12:00 PM
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Akbar Sayeed PhD

Biography:

Akbar Sayeed PhD is an electrical engineer and independent consultant for research and technology development in the wireless communication and signal processing industries. He is an IEEE Fellow and a former Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he led the Wireless Communication and Sensing Laboratory from 1997 to 2021. His research and consulting interests include wireless communication and sensing, propagation modeling, signal processing, communication and information theory, time-frequency analysis, machine learning, and quantum information science and engineering. A current focus is the development of basic theory, system architectures, and testbeds for emerging wireless technologies, including mmW, THz, and high-dimensional multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. He led the creation of the NSF Research Coordination Network on mmW Wireless in October 2016, and served as an NSF Program Director from 2017-19. He was a member of three NSF-wide working groups: Electromagnetic Spectrum Management, Quantum Leap, and Harnessing the Data Revolution. He co-led the development of the 2019 NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes solicitation in response to the National Quantum Initiative.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ams360/

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Agenda

7:05pm - Introductions

7:15pm - Feature Presentation

8:15pm - Q&A with Akbar Sayeed

8:45pm - Meeting Adjourns