Lajos Hanzo

FREng Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK and from arou ...

is an electronics engineer, Professor, and Chair of Telecommunications at the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

, and also a former Editor-in-Chief of

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Press.

Education

Lajos was born in

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

and studied at the

Technical University of Budapest The Budapest University of Technology and Economics ( or in short ), official abbreviation BME, is a public research university located in Budapest, Hungary. It is the most significant university of technology in the country and is considered t ...

, graduating with his master's degree in Electronics in 1976 and his Ph.D. in 1983. In 1980–81, he conducted research at the

University of Erlangen–Nuremberg The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (, FAU) is a Public University, public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. The name Friedrich-Alexander is derived from the university's first ...

, Germany. He then returned to Hungary and, in 1986, moved to University of Southampton, UK.

Career

In 1987, he was appointed as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the

and, in 1998, he was appointed to the Chair of Telecommunications. In 2004, he received his

Doctor of Science A Doctor of Science (; most commonly abbreviated DSc or ScD) is a science doctorate awarded in a number of countries throughout the world. Africa Algeria and Morocco In Algeria, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia, all universities accredited by the s ...

degree for his thesis based on 11 research monographs and 70 journal papers. Lajos is a prolific educator and researcher. He has published 2000+ technical papers at IEEE Xplore and co-authored 19 John Wiley - IEEE Press research monographs. His research include multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), visible light communication (VLC), turbo coding, and quantum communications conceived for flawless tele-presence. He is the holder of two consecutive European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants stretching over the past decade. He has served several terms on the Board of Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Governors of the

. He is also a frequent keynote speaker at IEEE conferences.

Awards

Lajos was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senio ...

in 2004. He received the Sir Monty Finniston Award ( IET Achievement Medals) in 2008. He is a Fellow of IEEE (2004) for contributions to adaptive wireless communication systems, Fellow of IET, and Fellow of EURASIP (2011). He received Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Budapest in 2009 and from the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

in 2015. In 2016, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

. In 2022, he was bestowed upon the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for seminal contributions to adaptive wireless communications.

Books and Publications

Lajos has co-authored 19 books related to generations of wireless communications standards, flawless voice- and video-compression, turbo coding, multi-carrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA), OFDM, MIMO systems, just to name a few. He has published 2000+ technical papers at IEEE Xplore. He is an ISI highly cited researcher.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanzo, Lajos Living people British electronics engineers Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Academics of the University of Southampton Year of birth missing (living people) Hungarian engineers