Andreas F. Molisch

Andreas F. Molisch is a researcher and educator whose work focuses on wireless communications. He is the Golomb-Viterbi Chair Professor at the University of Southern California, where he heads the Wireless Devices and Systems group and the Center for Wireless Propagation Research. Before joining USC in 2009, he spent 10 years in industry, at AT&T (Bell) Labs and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, where he rose to Chief Wireless Standards Architect.

Dr. Molisch is the author of the book “Wireless Communications”, currently in its third edition (2022), which covers topics ranging from the fundamentals to cutting-edge innovations that will form the basis of beyond-5G systems. The book is in worldwide use as textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses, and as a reference resource for researchers.

He is also an active researcher (having published 300 journal papers and 400 conference papers, which have been cited some 60,000 times; he is a Highly Cited Researcher and his h-index is >100) and inventor (70 patents, many of which have become part of international standards and widely used products). His research interests focus on wireless propagation channel measurement and modeling, localization, multi-antenna systems, novel modulation and multiple access methods, and machine learning; he has been book editor and chapter author for these topics.

Dr. Molisch’s work has been recognized by many learned societies. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Fellow of the AAAS, IEEE, and IET, and a Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and received many awards, among them the IET Achievement Medal, the Technical Achievement Awards of the IEEE Communications Society (Armstrong Award) and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (Evans Avant-garde Award), and the Technical Field Award of IEEE for Communications (Sumner Award).