2025 Member-at-Large - Europe, Middle East, Africa Region Candidate

Position Statement

I have been attending ComSoc conferences since ICC’85. Hence I understand its membership and what makes it a stable, vibrant and successful, yet evolving society, which reinvents itself for every new era. I personally know a large cohort of the members and in my 49-year career I have liaised with them in diverse capacities, such as Awards Committee Chair, EIC of the IEEE Press and founding Chair of the Quantum ETI. I have also been providing research tutorials for 30+ years – most recently quantum tutorials. I also supported the Young Professionals and acted as Technical, Keynote as well as General Chair of numerous conferences. I would like to intensify my services to ComSoc, with special emphasis on cultivating quantum communications education and research, including the IEEE-level multi-society quantum Initiative. 

Biography

Lajos Hanzo (FIEEE'04) received Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Budapest (2009) and Edinburgh University (2015). He is a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Science-Academy, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), of the IET, of EURASIP. He holds the IEEE Edwin Howard Armstrong Award and the IEEE Eric Sumner Technical Field Award.

He coauthored 2000+ contributions at IEEE Xplore and 19 Wiley-IEEE Press monographs. Furthermore, he advised 125 PhD students and about 50 of them are now professors at various stages of their careers.