Mérouane Debbah

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Mérouane Debbah
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
Scientific career
Fields5G, , Wireless communications, Random Matrix Theory, Game Theory, Statistical Inference, Machine Learning
InstitutionsHuawei R&D France, CentraleSupélec, University of Paris-Saclay

Mérouane Debbah is a researcher, educator and tech entrepreneur. He is a full professor at CentraleSupélec. He has founded several public and industrial research centers, start-ups and is now Chief Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi. His research has been lying at the interface of fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information and communication sciences, with a special focus on the applications of random matrix theory to communication sciences. In the wireless Communication field, he is one of the pioneers of the small cells (4G) and Massive MIMO technologies (5G).

Biography[]

A former student of Lycée Descartes[1] (Algiers) and Lycée Henri IV (Paris), Mérouane Debbah entered the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay in 1996 and obtained his PhD degree in 2002. He started his career at Motorola Labs in Saclay in 1999. He joined the Telecommunication Research Center of Vienna in 2002 as a senior researcher (ftw.). From 2003 to 2007, he was an assistant Professor at Eurecom in Sophia-Antipolis. His work focused mainly on the mathematical foundations of communication networks. In 2007, he was appointed full professor at CentraleSupélec (campus of Gif-sur-Yvette) at the age of 31. At the same time, he founded and was director of the Alcatel-Lucent chair on Flexible Radio. This was the first industrial chair in telecommunication in France with close ties between CentraleSupélec and Bell Labs.[2] The chair was at the heart of the development of the small cells and Massive MIMO technologies for which the researchers received multiple distinctions. During that period, the European Commission awarded him an ERC (European Research Council) grant on random complex networks and an ERC POC (Proof of Concept) on Wireless Edge Caching. In 2014, he joined Huawei and founded the Huawei Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab[3] in Boulogne-Billancourt, with a special focus on mathematical sciences applied to wireless, optical and networking communications. At the end of 2019, the lab established was considered as one of the very top places in the world for industrial R&D in the field of communication networks with a focus on 5G. In 2019, in order to encourage more fundamental research, he founded the Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research center[4] in Paris.[5] The research center focuses on the promotion of fundamental research on the foundations of Mathematics of Computing and Data Science, as well as to expand the horizons of the field by exploring other scientific disciplines through a computational and mathematics lens. In 2021, he joins the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi as Chief Researcher and puts into place the Telecom and AI center. The center aims to bring together top tier talent from across the globe to research and develop disruptive technological innovations for the benefit of science, the economy and the environment.

Awards and Honors[]

  • SEE Blondel Medal (2020), IEEE/SEE Glavieux Prize Award (2011)[6]
  • IEEE Radio Communications Committee Technical Recognition Award (2019)[7]
  • Louis Bachelier Fellow (2021), Eurasip Fellow (2021), SEE Membre émérite (2018), IEEE Fellow (2015), WWRF Fellow (2008)

His papers have received several awards:

  • 2021 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award
  • 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award
  • 2019 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award[8]
  • 2018 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award[9]
  • 2017 EURASIP Best Paper Award[10]
  • 2016 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award[11]
  • 2015 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize[12]
  • 2015 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize[13]

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.lyceedescartesalger.fr/
  2. ^ https://www.bell-labs.com
  3. ^ http://www.tangente-mag.com/article.php?id=5207
  4. ^ https://www.lmcrc.fr
  5. ^ https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202010/10/WS5f8126dea31024ad0ba7dd9a.html
  6. ^ https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/joint-awards-est.html
  7. ^ https://rc.committees.comsoc.org/awards/
  8. ^ https://www.comsoc.org/about/awards/paper-awards/ieee-communications-society-young-author-best-paper-award
  9. ^ https://www.comsoc.org/about/memberprograms/comsoc-awards/marconi
  10. ^ http://www.laneas.com/content/2017-eurasip-best-paper-award-journal-wireless-communications-and-networking
  11. ^ https://www.comsoc.org/about/memberprograms/comsoc-awards/best
  12. ^ https://www.comsoc.org/about/memberprograms/comsoc-awards/abraham
  13. ^ https://www.comsoc.org/about/memberprograms/comsoc-awards/ellersick

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