About
Xavier Pérez Costa is Chief Researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe in
Heidelberg, Germany, where he is currently the responsible of managing several
projects related to wireless networks. In the Wireless LAN area, he leads a
project contributing to 3G/WiFi mobile phones evolution and received NEC’s
R&D Award for his work on N900iL, NEC’s first 3G/WiFi phone. In the
WiMAX area, he manages a team researching on NEC’s WiMAX products future
enhancements. In the wireless multi-hop area, he contributes to the EU
FP7 project Carrier-Grade Mesh Neworks (CARMEN). He has participated in
IEEE standardization working groups as well as their corresponding certification
bodies and has been included in the major contributor list of IEEE 802.11e
and 802.11v. Dr. Pérez Costa has served in the program committee of several
conferences, including IEEE ICC, WCNC and INFOCOM, and holds 8 patents.
He received both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and was the recipient of the national
award to the best Ph.D. thesis on ‘Multimedia Convergence in Telecommunications’
from the Official Association of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT).