Josep Jornet

Josep Miquel Jornet is a Professor and the Interim Chair for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University (NU), the Associate Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at NU and the director of the Ultrabroadband Nanonetworking Laboratory. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering and a Master of Science in Information and Communication Technologies from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 2008. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in August 2013. His research interests are in terahertz communication networks and wireless nano-bio-communication networks. He has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications in these areas, including one book and five US patents. His work has received over 18,000 citations (h-index of 63 as of August 2024). He is serving as the lead PI on multiple grants from U.S. federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, and industry. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Young Professional Best Innovation Award, the 2017 ACM NanoCom Outstanding Milestone Award, the NSF CAREER Award in 2019, the 2022 IEEE ComSoc RCC Early Achievement Award, and the 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Outstanding Young Researcher Award, among others, as well as eight best paper awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (Class of 2024) and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (Class of 2022-2024). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Nano Communication Networks journal and Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and Scientific Reports.