Gerhard Fettweis

Gerhard P. Fettweis earned his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen in 1990. After one year at IBM Research in San Jose, CA, he moved to TCSI Inc., in Berkeley, CA. Since 1994 he has been the Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany, with 20 companies from Asia, Europe, and the United States sponsoring his research on wireless transmission and chip design. He coordinates 2 DFG centers at TU Dresden, namely cfaed and HAEC. Fettweis is an IEEE Fellow, member of the German academy acatech, and his most recent award is the Stuart Meyer Memorial Award from IEEE VTS. In Dresden he has spun-out eleven start-ups, and setup funded projects in volume of close to EUR 1/2 billion. He has helped organize IEEE conferences, most notably as TPC Chair of ICC 2009 and of TTM 2012, and as General Chair of VTC Spring 2013 and DATE 2014. At ICSI, he is focusing on research on communications systems for implementing the Tactile Internet, in particular for use in unlicensed bands.