Alexandros Kaloxylos

Alexandros Kaloxylos (B.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.) has 30 years of experience working on numerous research and innovation projects and managing multi-disciplinary teams of varying sizes. Notably, he led the Radio Access Network team of Huawei ERC in Munich, working on 5G network solutions from 2014 until 2017. Since 2019 he has been serving as the executive director of the 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA). For two years (2019 – 2021), he has been the Technology Board chair of the European 5G Public-Private Partnership. He is currently the co-chair of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking Policy WG. In this capacity, he was the co-editor of the “EU-US Beyond 5G/6G roadmap” that was requested by the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC).

He is also a full Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese, and a senior member of IEEE. He has published over 140 papers in international journals, conferences, and book chapters and received more than 3,800 citations. He is also the inventor of more than 20 filed patents for topics related to 5G networks, 10 of which are fully granted.