Lajos Hanzo

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is an electronics engineer, Professor and Chair of Telecommunications at the

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, and a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Press.

Education

Lajos was born in

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and studied at the

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, graduating with his master's degree in Electronics in 1976 and his Ph.D. in 1983. In 1980–81, he conducted research at the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg in Germany. He then returned to Hungary and, in 1986, moved to Southampton University in the UK.

Career

In 1987 he was appointed as a Lecturer/Assistant Prof. at the

and in 1998 he was appointed to the Chair of Telecommunications. In 2004, he received his

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degree for his thesis based on 11 research monographs and 70 journal papers. Lajos Hanzo is a prolific educator and researcher. He has published 2000+ technical papers at IEEE Xplore, and co-authored 19 John Wiley - IEEE Press research monographs. His research include MIMO, OFDM, Visible Light and Quantum Communications conceived for flawless tele-presence. He is a frequent keynote speaker at IEEE conferences. He has served several terms on the oard of VTS Governorsof the

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Awards

Lajos was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2004. He received the Sir Monty Finiston Medal (

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) in 2008. He is a Fellow of IEEE (2004) for contributions to adaptive wireless communication systems, Fellow of IET, and Fellow of EURASIP (2011). He received Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Budapest in 2009 and from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. In 2016, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was bestowed upon the 2022 Eric Sumner Field Award of the IEEE.

Books and papers

Lajos has co-authored 19 books related to generations of wireless communications standards, flawless voice- and video-compression, turbo coding, MC-CDMA, OFDM, MIMO systems, just to name a few. He is an ISI highly cited researcher and the holder of two consecutive European Advanced Fellow Grants stretching over the past decade.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanzo, Lajos Living people British electronics engineers Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Academics of the University of Southampton Year of birth missing (living people) Hungarian engineers