Future G Summit

Antonio Manna was born in Aversa, Italy, in 1980. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Since 2006, he has worked as an antenna and microwave designer at the HW development department of Elettronica S.p.A. (ELT), Rome. From 2015 to 2018, he was Head of the Microwave & Antennas Dept. He currently leads the Space EW, Biodefense, and EW Cross Domain Department within the Research and Innovation Dept in ELT. Author of over 50 scientific papers and 3 patents about UWB antennas and microwave devices.

Dr. Aycan Erentok leads the end-to-end design and integration of advanced antenna solutions across Tesla's vehicle and robotics platforms. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, where he specialized in electrically small and metamaterial-inspired antennas under the mentorship of Professor Richard W. Ziolkowski.

Prior to Tesla, Dr. Erentok held senior technical and leadership roles at Intel and Nokia, driving antenna innovation for mobile and wearable electronics. He holds over 16 U.S. patents and has been instrumental in delivering highly integrated, compact, and crash-resilient antenna systems deployed in mass-market products. His work spans the automotive, mobile, and robotics sectors, with a focus on high-performance connectivity and seamless design integration.

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Geoffroy Lerosey is the co-founder and the inventor of the concepts behind Greenerwave with Mathias Fink. He is on leave from academia to fully support the company's development and bring his scientific expertise as CEO and CSO. Geoffroy earned an engineering degree from ESPCI Paris, a Master’s degree in electronics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie and a PhD in Physics from Université Paris Diderot. He joined University of California at Berkeley for Postdoctoral research working mainly on metamaterials and plasmonics. Coming back to France, Geoffroy was appointed by French main academic research organization CNRS in 2008 and started a group at Institut Langevin (CNRS & ESPCI Paris). Geoffroy’s research interests are broadly in wave physics, from designing new exotic materials with new or reconfigurable properties to devising algorithms to control waves for imaging, sensing or communication purposes, and span many domains of wave physics from acoustics to optics. Geoffroy has been invited more than 100 times at international conferences and has given invited seminars in many universities worldwide. His research led to 120 scientific articles, 25 patents and 2 startups. He was awarded the Lazare-Carnot Prize of the French Academy of Science in 2023.

Joonho Byun is a Corporate Vice President at Samsung Electronics, leading the Antenna Engineering Group. With over 25 years of experience in the mobile industry, he has driven innovations such as the world’s first 5G smartphone and foldable devices. He oversees the strategy, technology roadmap, and architecture of antenna systems across various product lines, including smartphones, tablets, and wearables. He has also contributed to global standardization efforts and the development of advanced antenna technologies.

Dr. Martin Weiss is currently the Director for FutureG Resilient Open Communications and Integrated Sensing & Communications within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. In this capacity, Dr. Weiss oversees multiple efforts to promote FutureG applied research which enable government, academia, and industry to build commercially useful solutions to meet the Department of Defense's wireless communications needs.

Prior to joining the FutureG Office, Dr. Weiss was a Professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems in the School of Computing and Information and is Associate Director of the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a founding member of SpectrumX, a National Science Foundation-funded Spectrum Innovation Institute. He earned his PhD. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, Master of Science in Engineering in Computer, Control, and Information Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. His research interest is on the governance of technological systems and infrastructures. He has been studying dynamic spectrum access, and the economic perspective of spectrum sharing and mobile telecommunication standards such as 3GPP.

Mohammad S. Sharawi is currently a Principal Engineer at Blue Origin, LLC, where he is leading the development of antenna systems for space applications. He is also an affiliate full professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, USA. He has been developing antenna solutions for 4G, 5G and sub-THz applications (from bio-sensors, to base station arrays) during his 20 years tenure as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at various institutions since 2006. He joined the Space Industry in 2023 where he is now shifting attention to space. He has 28 granted antenna related patents with the USPO, and more than 430 Publications in refereed journals and international conferences in addition to 3 Books in the field. He has major contributions in MIMO antenna systems, active reconfigurable antennas, mm-wave antenna arrays and encapsulated dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and serves as a Distinguished Lecturer to the Antennas and Propagation Society (APS).

Dr. Nelson J. G. Fonseca, IEEE Fellow works as Chief Innovation Officer for Anywaves, Toulouse, France, contributing to the development of their custom space-segment antennas portfolio. He is also the founding director of 3SPACE Innovation, Paris, France, a consulting company providing support on novel ground-segment and terrestrial wireless communication antenna systems. His research interests include multiple beam antennas for space missions, beamformer theory and design, ground terminal antennas and novel manufacturing techniques. He has authored or co-authored more than 330 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and has over 50 patents issued or pending.

Dr. Surendra Pal an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India superannuated as Distinguished Scientist, Associate Director and Program Director, Satellite Navigation Program at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India. He joined Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in 1971, after a brief tenure at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Dr. Pal pioneered the Microwave, Antenna & RF communication activities at the ISRO Satellite Centre at the inception. He was responsible for the development & fabrication of all spacecraft related telecommunication systems for India's all satellites beginning with Aryabhata to the present day IRS & INSAT series of spacecraft & Chandrayaan-1. Dr. Pal is also responsible for pioneering satellite based navigation activities in India. He was spear-heading the Indian Satellite Based Wide Area Augmentation System - GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation System) and Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) activities for aviation for civilian & restricted users. Dr Pal and his team successfully took on the challenge of designing a 32 M diameter antenna system for the Indian Deep Space Network for Chandrayaan-I.

He is on the United Nations panel of experts on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Chaired/participated in various UN meetings at Vienna, Geneva and at other international venues. Dr. Pal is a Distinguished Fellow of IETE, Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, India, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Wen Tong is the CTO, Huawei Wireless, he is the chief scientist for Huawei 5G/6G. He is a Huawei Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Dr. Tong was the Nortel Fellow and head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research in 1995 in Canada. He was the recipient of IEEE ComSoc Industry Innovation Award in 2014, the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Industry Leader Award and the R. A. Fessenden Medal. For the past three decades, he had pioneered fundamental technologies from 1G to 6G wireless and WiFi. He is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow Royal Society of Canada.

Prof Yang Hao is the Deputy Vice Principal for Strategic Research and QinetiQ/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair Professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Internationally recognised for his pioneering contributions to antenna technologies, metamaterials, and wireless communications, he has led major research programmes on 5G and beyond, smart antennas, and dynamic spectrum sharing. Prof Hao is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has published extensively, holds multiple patents, and continues to play an influential role in advancing next-generation wireless technologies, including spinout companies such as All.Space (formerly Isotropic Systems).

Dr. Yihong Qi is an engineer, scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur.

Dr. Qi holds 500+ patents and 150 scientific papers. His multi-band smart antenna, used in mobile terminals, is a leading smartphone solution. His MIMO throughput OTA measurement inventions have simplified 5G certification for vehicles and IoT. He also invented the O-shaped connector, producing over 50 billion units. Additionally, his mmWave wireless sensor has been widely used for elderly care, child presence detection, and driver monitoring.

Dr. Qi is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Inventors.