Hikmet Sari - Curriculum Vitae#


EDUCATION
  • Engineer (M.S.) degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, 1978
  • Ph.D. from the ENST, Paris, 1980
  • Habilitation degree from the Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 1992

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Since 2017 he is Professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), Nanjing, China
  • From 2003 to 2016, he was a Professor and Head of the Telecommunications Department at SUPELEC, Gif sur Yvette, France
  • From 2004 to 2016, he was also Chief Scientist of Sequans Communications, Headquartered in Paris
  • From May 2000 to December 2001, he was with Pacific Broadband Communications (PBC) as Chief Scientist. When the company was acquired by Juniper Networks, he continued in the same position until the end of 2002.
  • From September 1996 to April 2000, he was with Alcatel, where he held the positions of Technical Director of Alcatel telspace and lof the radio communications business line.
  • From September 1989 to August 1996, he was Head of the Radio and Optical Systems Department in the Telecommunications Division of SAT (a SAGEM Company)
  • Prior to joining SAT in September 1989, he was with the Philips Research Laboratories (LEP) in Limeil-Brévannes, near Paris

TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES
  • Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications (1987 - 1991).
  • Guest Editor of the European Transactions on Telecommunications & Related Technologies (ETT) for a special issue published in May/June 1993
  • Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) for a special issue published in October 1999
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters (1999 - 2002)
  • Guest Editor, Special issue on Multicarrier Transmission, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2007)
  • Chair of the Communication Theory Symposium of ICC 2002, April/May 2002, New York
  • Technical Program Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, June 2004
  • Vice-Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, June 2006.
  • General Chair of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010), Istanbul, September 2010
  • General Chair of the 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Paris, April 2012
  • Executive Chair of the 2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, April 2014
  • Technical Program Chair of the 2015 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2015), Paris, June 2015
  • Executive Co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), Kuala Lumpur, May 2016
  • Executive Chair of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2017), Paris, May 2017
  • General Co-Chair of IEEE PIMRC 2019, Istanbul, September 2019
  • General Chair of the 2021 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2021), Nanjing, March - April 2021
  • Executive Co-Chair of the 2023 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2023), Kuala Lumpur, December 2023
  • Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society (2001 - 2006)
  • Member of the Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Communications Society (2002 -2007)
  • Member of the Awards Committee of the IEEE Communications Society (2005 - 2007)
  • Member of the Blondel Medal Committee of the SEE (France) from 1998 to 2003
  • Chair of the Globecom and ICC Technical Content (GITC) Committee of the IEEE Communications Society during the period of 2010 - 2011
  • Vice President for Conferences of the IEEE Communications Society during the period of 2014 - 2015
  • Vice President for Conferences of the IEEE France Section during the period of 2017 - 2019
  • Director of Conference Operations of the IEEE Communications Society during the period of 2018 - 2019
  • Coordinator, European FP7 project WiMAGIC (2008 – 2010)
  • Member of the Executive Board, European Network of Excellence on Wireless Communications (NEWCOM) during 2008 – 2010

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS
  • Elected to the IEEE Fellow Grade in 1995 for his contributions to Advanced Signal Processing in Digital Microwave Radio Systems
  • Received the André Blondel Medal from the French Electrical and Electronics Engineering Society SEE in 1995
  • Received the Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 2003 for outstanding contributions to the Theory and Design of Digital Communications Systems
  • Received the Harold Sobol Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 2003 for Exemplary Service to Meetings and Conferences
  • Elected to membership of the Turkish Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi) in 2012
  • Received the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award in 2021 for the paper: Guan Gui, Hikmet Sari, and Ezio Biglieri, "A New Definition of Fairness for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 1267-1271, July 2019
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