Speaker Bio
Eric Hardouin leads the Orange research on Networks and Infrastructures, which aims at designing the future mobile, fixed and HomeLAN network technologies and infrastructures. Eric received his Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from Telecom Bretagne and the University of Rennes 1, France, in 2004. Since 2004, he has been with Orange, where he conducted research on interference mitigation for mobile networks. Between 2008 and 2013 he represented Orange in the physical layer standardization group of 3GPP (RAN WG1) for HSPA, LTE and LTE-Advanced. From 2012, Eric has held various leading positions in the Orange networks research. Eric had a leading role in the NGMN 5G White Paper, as co-lead of the work on 5G requirements. Eric currently represents Orange in the Board of Directors of the IOWN Global Forum. Eric is the author of the book “LTE et les réseaux 4G” (in French).