Dr. Reinaldo Valenzuela

Director of Wireless Communications Research
Bell Labs

Dr. Reinaldo Valenzuela received the B.S. degree from the University of Chile, Santiago, and the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology of the University of London, London, UK. At Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, he studied indoor microwave propagation and modeling, packet reservation multiple access for wireless systems and optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks. He became Manager of the Voice Research Department at Motorola Codex, Boston, MA, where he was involved in the implementation integrated voice and data packet systems. On returning to Bell Laboratories, he led a multidisciplinary team to create a software tool for wireless system engineering (WiSE), now in widespread use in Lucent Technologies. He is interested in microwave propagation measurements and models, intelligent antennas, third-generation wireless system and space time systems achieving high capacities using transmit and receive antenna arrays. He has published over 80 papers and has 12 patents. Dr. Valenzuela is a Fellow of IEEE and the Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. He received the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award and is Director of the Wireless Communications Research Department.