Gerard J. Foschini

Over the past four decades, Dr. Gerard J. Foschini has profoundly impacted communications theory and engineering, most notably through his work on layered spacetime multi-antenna systems. Such techniques, which allow unprecedented levels of spectral efficiency, are being applied to wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) systems and are being proposed in the next-generation mobile wireless communication systems.

An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Foschini has won the Lucent Inventor's Award and the Research and Development Council of New Jersey's Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award. He is a Bell Labs Fellow and past recipient of the Bell Labs Inventor's Award, Gold Award and Teamwork Award. With 100 published papers, including seminal works on optical communications and resource allocation for both computer networks and wireless systems, he holds seven patents and has six pending. Dr. Foschini holds the position of Distinguished Member of Staff, Distinguished Inventor at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, where he has worked since 1961.