Smart University Home > Teachers - Femtocells
Teachers - Femtocells
Dr. Guillaume de la Roche
PhD, Centre for Wireless Network Design, Bedfordshire University, UK
Guillaume de la Roche has been working as a research fellow at the Centre for Wireless Network Design (CWiND), University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, since 2007. From 2001 to 2002 he was a research engineer at Infineon, Munich, Germany. From 2003 to 2004 he worked in a small French company where he deployed WiFi networks. From 2004 to 2007 he was with the CITI Laboratory at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France. He holds a Dipl-Ing from CPE Lyon, France, and M.Sc. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees in wireless communications from INSA Lyon. Since 2009, his research has been funded by the FP7 project CWNetPlan on Combined outdoor/indoor Wireless Network Planning. His current research is related to next generation networks such as LTE and femtocells. He is a co-author of the book Femtocells: Technologies and Deployment (Wiley, 2010). He is also a part-time lecturer at Lyon1 University.

Prof. Mérouane Debbah
SUPELEC

Mérouane Debbah was born in Madrid, Spain. He entered the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan (France) in 1996 where he received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees respectively in 1999 and 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he worked for Motorola Labs on Wireless Local Area Networks and prospective fourth generation systems. From 2002 until 2003, he was appointed Senior Researcher at the Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (FTW) (Vienna, Austria) working on MIMO wireless channel modeling issues. From 2003 until 2007, he joined the Mobile Communications de-partment of the Institut Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis, France) as an Assistant Professor. He is presently a Professor at Supelec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), holder of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio. His research interests are in information theory, signal process-ing and wireless communications. Mérouane Debbah is the recipient of the "Mario Boella" prize award in 2005, the 2007 General Symposium IEEE GLOBECOM best paper award, the Wi-Opt 2009 best paper award as well as the Valuetools 2007,Valuetools 2008 and CrownCom2009 best student paper awards. He is a WWRF fellow.

Alberto Conte
Research group leader, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Alberto Conte is a team manager in the Networks Research Domain, at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Paris, France.
After receiving M.S. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in Italy and Institut Eurécom in Sophia Antipolis, France, he joined the software department at Bell Labs, France, initially working on embedded systems and VoIP softswitches. He then shifted his research interests to wireless technologies for both home/enterprise (WiFi) and public cellular systems. Mr. Conte and his team pioneered the definition of end-to-end mobile solutions based on WiMAX technology and played a key role as Alcatel-Lucent representative at the WiMAX Forum.
His current research focuses on 4G networks and their optimizations, including high-density self-x deployments, energy savings solutions, and ubiquitous access enablers to improve end user experience.
He is an active lecturer at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), INSA-Lyon and Supelec (France), where he teaches WiMAX technology to M.S. degree students. He is also member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy.
Sponsor