Professor Gerhard Fettweis

Gerhard Fettweis

Gerhard P. Fettweis, earned a Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTH Aachen (Germany) in 1990. After a postdoc at IBM Research, San Jose, he joined TCSI, Berkeley, USA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany. Additionally, since 2018 he is the founding Scientific Director & CEO of the Barkhausen Institute. He researches wireless transmission and chip design, with a focus on trustworthiness at the Barkhausen Institute. He coordinates the 5G++Lab Germany and the German Cluster-for-Future SEMECO. His team spun-out 19 tech startups, and he initiated 6 platform corporations. Gerhard is member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (Acatech), the US National Academy of Engineering; and Fellow of IEEE, VDE/ITG, US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), EURASIP, DATE, and WWRF. He is active in helping organize IEEE conferences and is on the Editorial Board of Proceedings of the IEEE.

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