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Co-Chairs.
Holger Boche, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute
Holger Boche was born on Christmas 1966 in Schwelm H. (Germany). He studied in Dresden and Berlin, and in 1994 he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering. Four years later, in 1998, he aquired a PhD degree in Mathematics. In 1997, 2004 and 2006, he was guest scientist and visiting professor at the ETH Zurich, and in 2005 he visited the KTH Stockholm as a professor. Mr. Boche is currently head of the department for mobile communication at the Technical University Berlin, head of the department for Mobile Communications at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Berlin, as well as head of the Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab for Mobile Communications (MCI) (Berlin, Beijing). Since 2005 he has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE) and Signal Processing.
Ralf Irmer, Vodafone R&D
Ralf Irmer earned his Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. from Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany, in 2000 and 2005, rspectively. During his studies at TUD her visited in 1995/96 the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for one academic year. In 1998/99 he was with the Centre for Wireless Communications, Singapore. Since 2005 Dr. Irmer is with Vodafone Group Research and Development, UK, as Principle Engineer. He actively contributed to various standardization groups and is involved in different European research projects.
Zhongrong Liu, T-Mobile
Dr. Liu has been in his current position since January 2004. Previously, he was a senior consultant of system engineering at T-Mobile Deutschland. Prior to that, Dr. Liu was a senior engineer of network planning at T-Mobile Deutschland. He began his career at Detecon as a project engineer working on Project Digitaler Mobilfunk in the Radio Network planning department.
Patrick Marsch, Technische Universität Dresden
Patrick Marsch received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from Technische Universität Dresden in 2004, after completing an apprenticeship at Siemens AG and studying at the TU Dresden and McGill University, Montréal, Canada. After an internship with Philips Research East Asia in Shanghai, P.R. China, he joined the Vodafone Chair in 2005, where he is working on the limits of multi-cell cooperative signal processing schemes under various practical considerations. Since April 2007, he is the technical project coordinator of EASY-C, a research project funded by the German government, where innovative physical layer concepts beyond LTE, such as network MIMO and cooperative relaying, are evaluated in large-scale testbed environments in Dresden and Berlin.
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