2024 Member-at-Large - Europe, Middle East, Africa Region Candidate

Position Statement

I served COMSOC for two decades, recently as Editor-in-Chief of Communications Letters and Director of Journals. I promoted the EMEA region serving in several leadership positions, recently as TPC Chair of MeditCom-2023, WCNC-2024, ICC-2026. As Distinguished Lecturer, I visited several COMSOC Chapters. These activities allowed me to become well acquainted with COMSOC across all IEEE regions. If elected, I will:

• ensure that EMEA works cohesively with other COMSOC regions and IEEE Societies to pioneer communication theory and technologies, thanks to my experience in the Emerging Technology Standing Committee, Emerging Technology Initiatives, Chair of Special Interests Groups;
• promote industrial-academic collaborations, thanks to my experience as Vice-Chair and Rapporteur in ETSI;
• promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and research integrity, as I did as Editor-in-Chief and thanks to my active involvement in WICE/WIE/YP;
• liaise with COMSOC BoG and staff to further improve publications and conferences, making them affordable to everyone.

Biography

Marco Di Renzo is a CNRS Research Director (Professor), Founder and Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group, L2S-CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, France. He holds the France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT, University of Oulu, and the Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship, Nanyang Technological University. He was a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor, Fulbright Fellow. He serves as Vice-Chair and Rapporteur of ETSI-ISG-RIS. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, EURASIP, AAIA; Academician of AIIA; Ordinary Member of EASA and AE; Ambassador of EurAAP; Highly Cited Researcher. For two decades, he served COMSOC in several leadership positions. Recent appointments include Editor-in-Chief of Communications Letters, Distinguished Lecturer, Member of the Emerging Technology Standing Committee and Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee, Chair of the Ethics Publications Committee, Director of Journals. He received several prestigious recognitions, including the COMSOC Outstanding Paper, ICC Best Paper, and EMEA Best Young Researcher awards.