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He is a past Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Joerg Widmer (M’06‐SM’10‐
Bangalore Chapter. He was an elected member of the F’20) is Research Professor and
IEEE SPCOM Technical Committee during 2014-19. He is Research Director of IMDEA Net‐
currently serving as a senior area editor for the IEEE works in Madrid, Spain. Before, he
TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, and as an held positions at DOCOMO Euro‐
associate editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON Labs in Munich, Germany and
COMMUNICATIONS and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EPFL, Switzerland. He was a visit‐
INFORMATION THEORY. ing researcher at the International
Computer Science Institute in
Nuria González‑Prelcic (S’96‐
Berkeley, USA, University College
M’00‐SM’17) is currently an as‐
London, UK, and TU Darmstadt, Germany. His research
sociate professor in the Electrical focuses on wireless networks, ranging from extremely
and Computer Engineering De‐
high frequency millimeter‐wave communication and
partment at North Carolina State
MAC layer design to mobile network architectures. Joerg
University. Her main research
Widmer authored more than 150 conference and journal
interests include signal processing
papers and three IETF RFCs, and holds 13 patents. He
theory and signal processing and
was awarded an ERC consolidator grant, the Friedrich
machine learning for wireless communications: ilter
Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von
banks, compressive sampling and estimation, multicar‐
Humboldt Foundation, a Mercator Fellowship of the
rier modulation, massive MIMO, MIMO processing for
German Research Foundation, a Spanish Ramon y Cajal
millimeter‐wave communication and sensing, including
grant, as well as eight best paper awards. He is an IEEE
vehicle‐to‐everything (V2X, air‐to‐everything (A2X
Fellow and distinguished member of the ACM.
and satellite MIMO communication. She has published
more than 80 papers in the topic of signal processing for
millimeter‐wave communications. She is an Editor for
the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. She
is a member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel
Signal Processing Technical Committee. She was the
founder director of the Atlantic Research Center for In‐
formation and Communication Technologies (atlanTTic
at the University of Vigo from July 2008 to January 2017.

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