Professor Nossek returns to Notre Dame as part of the Edison Lecture Series

On March 24, 2022, Professor Josef A. Nossek of Technical University of Munich, Germany, presented “How to Achieve Energy Efficiency in Multi-Antenna Systems? A Physical Layer Perspective” to faculty, students, and distinguished alumni as part of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering Edison Lecture Series. 

Nossek is a friend and colleague of Dr. Yih-Fang Huang, Professor & Senior Associate Dean for Education and Undergraduate Programs for Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. For nearly three decades, the two have known each other, and Nossek has visited Notre Dame multiple times. They also co-advised the Ph.D. Dissertation of Dr. Ralf Bendlin, who made a special effort to return to the campus to attend the lecture. Bendlin is a Principal Member of Technical Staff for AT&T Labs.

“I am delighted to see a good friend in person. It is particularly special in this tumultuous time,” said Professor Huang. “Professor Nossek’s expertise in circuit theory and signal processing offers special insights into the development and design of future generation wireless systems. His lecture was insightful, thought-provoking, and inspiring, particularly in achieving higher energy efficiency in wireless communication systems.”

Professor Nossek is highly regarded in the area of circuit theory and signal processing, most recently on their applications to wireless communications. Among his honors, he is a Life Fellow of the IEEE.  Here is an excerpt from the abstract of his presentation. Looking back at the historical evolution of wireless communications, bandwidth has almost always been a scarce resource. Therefore, spectral efficiency has been the key performance indicator. But in the meantime, energy efficiency has become as important as spectral efficiency for the future communications infrastructure. Since wireless access is a main contributor to the overall energy dissipation, the focus here is on the physical layer of mobile communication systems.