Dr. Lajos Hanzo, received his Masters degree in electronics in 1976 and his Doctorate in 1983 from the Technical University of Budapest. In 2010 he was awarded the university's highest honour, namely the Honorary Doctorate "Doctor Honaris Causa". Since 1986 he has been with the University of Southampton, UK and in 2004 he was awarded the Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree. During his 34-year career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been a member of academic staff in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK where he currently holds the Chair in Telecommunications and he is head of the Communications Research Area. He is also a Chaired Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Dr. Hanzo has
co-authored 20 John Wiley/IEEE Press books totalling about 10 000 pages on
mobile radio communications, and published 1200+ research papers and book
chapters at IEEE Xplore. He has also organised and chaired major IEEE
conferences, such as WCNC'2006, WCNC'2009, VTC'2011, presented
Tutorial/overview lectures at international conferences. He presented a number
of named lectures and keynotes.
Dr. Hanzo is
also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Communications Society and the
Vehicular Society as well as a Fellow of both the IEEE and the IEE/IET, Fellow
of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). He is acting as a Governor of the
IEEE VTS as well as of ComSoc. Lajos is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press.
He has been awarded a number of distinctions, most recently the IEEE Wireless
Technical Committee Achievement Award (2007), the IET Sir Monti Finniston
Achievement Award across all disciplines of engineering (2008) and an Honorary
Doctorate of the Technical University of Budapest (2010). His most recent paper
awards are: WCNC'2007 in Hong Kong, ICC'2009 Dresden and ICC'2010 Cape Town.
Currently he
heads an academic research team working on a range of research projects in the
field of wireless multimedia communications aiming for flawless telepresence,
supported by rich three-dimensional audio/video communications. His research is
sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC) UK, the European IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of
Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and
academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses.
For further information on research in progress and associated
publications please click on the following links.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/lh
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/lajos-hanzo.php.
