Nokia, USA

The motivation behind developing a 6G Radio Access Technology is deeply rooted in the growing demands and technological evolution expected in the coming decade. It is clear that merely evolving existing technologies will not meet the full range of future use cases, requiring extreme performance, flexibility, and scalability. 6G study represents an opportunity to revisit the foundations of radio system design and take a revolutionary approach to meet the challenges. This is exciting time for telecom industry as 3GPP has started working on 6G in its Release 20, and identified a list of key technologies for 6G, called 6G Day 1. This talk will revisit key radio technologies for the first phase of 6G by industry perspective and the challenges to be tackled to make 6G a success story.

Biography:

M. Majid Butt is a senior staff research specialist at Nokia, USA. Prior to that, he has held various positions at the University of Glasgow, U.K., Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany. He has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles; contributed to more than 200 filed/granted patent families in cellular networks domain and was declared outstanding Nokia inventor of the year for the years 2021, and 2022. Dr. Butt has won several awards for his research and innovation including, Marie Curie Alain Bensoussan Post-Doctoral Fellowship award in 2011, IEEE Region 4 outstanding research professional award in 2024 and Marie Curie Innovator Award in 2025. He has served as an associate editor for IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society and IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology. He is IEEE COMSOC and VTS distinguished speaker.