Open Lecture 8 – Next Generation MIMO

Giuseppe Caire received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin in 1990, a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1992, and a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Turin in 1994. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He received the Jack Neubauer Best System Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2003, the IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2004 and 2011, the Okawa Research Award in 2006, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2014, the Vodafone Innovation Prize in 2015, an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018, the Leonard G. Abraham Prize for best IEEE JSAC paper in 2019, and the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award in 2020. He is also a recipient of the 2021 Leibniz Prize of the German National Science Foundation (DFG). Giuseppe has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 2005. He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2004 to 2007 and as an officer from 2008 to 2013. He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2011. His main research interests are in the field of communications theory, information theory, and channel and source coding with a particular focus on wireless communications.