Dr. Emilio Calvanese Strinati obtained his Engineering Master degree in 2001 from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and his Ph.D in Engineering Science in 2005 from Paris Telecom.
He then started working at Motorola Labs in Paris in 2002.
Then in 2006 he joint CEA LETI as a research engineer.
From 2007, he becomes a PhD supervisor.
From 2010 to 2012, he has been the co-chair of the wireless working group in GreenTouch Initiative, which deals with design of future energy efficient communication networks.
From 2011 to 2016 he was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications strategic programs Director, then, until January 2020 he was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications Scientific and Innovation Director.
Since February 2020 he is the Nanotechnologies and Wireless for 6G (New-6G) Program Director focusing on future 6G technologies.
He has published around 250 papers in journals, international conferences, and books chapters, and he has given more than 250 international invited talks, keynotes and tutorials. He is the main inventor of more than 90 patents.
He has also a rather strong and successful experience in leading and coordinating research activities having been the main coordinator of successful projects such as 5G-CHAMPIONS, 5GAllstar or RISE-6G and he is the coordinator of 6G-GOALS, 6G-DISAC and 6G-ARROW.
CEA has also coordinated other FP7/H2020 and national projects, and/or serving regularly as project’s Technical Manager, Work Package and Task leader in more than 40 European projects.
His current research interests are on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Semantic communications, Goal-oriented communications AI-native technologies in the context of future 6G networks.