Dr. Tomas Novosad is currently with Operations Solutions within Nokia Networks. Main mission of Operations Solutions is to be the leading edge network planning, optimisation tools and services provider for 2G and 3G technologies.

Tomas has been working in different aspects of Cellular Communications for 18 years. Half of the period was in Academic Research and second half in cellular industry R&D and applications.

Since 1985 he has been with the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague , as a researcher with orientation towards CDMA, PN sequence design and error control coding. He developed a new family of pseudorandom quadriphase sequences for CDMA with optimal correlation properties.

He joined Motorola, European Cellular Infrastructure Division from 1996 to 1998 as system expert. Tomas has joined Nokia in 1998. He has been oriented towards network performance, WCDMA planning methods and cellular network optimization algorithm. His technical and research interests are in wireless communication performance, cellular network planning issues, digital modulations, error correction coding, spread spectrum systems, and code division multiple access.

Tomas received M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Czech Technical University , Prague in 1984 and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1990, both in Czechoslovakia.

Dr. Novosad is a Senior Member of IEEE, published over 30 technical papers, hold 1 patent and is coeditor/coauthor of the book “Radio Network Planning and Optimization for UMTS”, Wiley, 2002.