Afif Osseiran

Afif Osseiran is director of radio communications at the Ericsson CTO office. He holds a doctorate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. One master’s degree from École Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada, and another one from Université de Rennes-I and INSA Rennes, France. Since 1999 he held several positions at Ericsson, Sweden. From November 2012 to April 2014, he managed METIS, the EU 5G flagship project. During 2008-2010, he was the Technical Manager of the Eureka Celtic project WINNER+. He has published over 50 technical papers in international journals and conferences. He co-authored one book on 5G with Cambridge Press and two books on IMT-Advanced with Wiley. Dr. Osseiran is a senior member of IEEE.