Merouane DEBBAH

Biographie

Mérouane Debbah entered the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay in 1996 and obtained his PhD degree in 2002. He started his career at Motorola Labs in Saclay in 1999. He joined the Telecommunication Research Center of Vienna in 2002 as a senior researcher. From 2003 to 2007, he was an assistant Professor at Eurecom in Sophia-Antipolis. In 2007, he was appointed full professor at CentraleSupélec (campus of Gif-sur-Yvette) at the age of 31. At the same time, he founded and was director of the Alcatel-Lucent chair on Flexible Radio. This was the first industrial chair in telecommunication in France with close ties between CentraleSupélec and Bell Labs. In 2014, he joined Huawei and founded the Huawei Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Labin Paris. In 2020, the lab had 100 researchers and was a worldwide reference in the fundamentals of 5G and beyond and AI for Telecommunications. Mérouane Debbah is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, and a Membre émérite SEE. He received numerous awards for his research contributions in the field of 4G and 5G systems.