Technical advisory board

Leading industry technologists and scientists have contributed to Sequans' development and success.

	Professor Ezio Biglieri Ezio Biglieri is currently professor of electrical engineering at Politecnico di Torino. He has been an IEEE fellow since 1989, and is a recognized expert in the field of digital communications. He received his Dr. Engr. degree in 1967 from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), and became Professor at University of Napoli in 1975. Since then he has been Professor at Politecnico di Torino (current position), University of California, as well as regular visitor to prestigious labs and universities such as the Bell Labs, UCLA, or Princeton. He was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1999, is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Information Theory Society and the IEEE Communications Society and has served as Editor for IEEE journals. He received prestigious awards, in particular the IEEE Third-Millennium Medal in 2000, and the 'Journal of Communications and Networks Best Paper Award' in 2004. His latest book, Coding for Wireless Channels, was published by Springer in 2005.
	Dr. Andrea Goldsmith Andrea Goldsmith is a renowned expert in the field of wireless communications. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. She is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, and was previously at California Institute of Technology. She has also held industry positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Maxim Technologies. She is an IEEE Fellow, vice-chair for the Communication Theory Committee of ComSoc, and a BoG member of the IEEE Information Theory Society. She has been an editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications. Andrea has also served on the technical program committee, executive committee, and as technical program chair for numerous IEEE conferences.
	Dr. Hikmet Sari Hikmet Sari is a world-renowned expert in the field of digital communications. He has published over 170 journal and conference papers, holds over 20 patents, and has given numerous invited talks in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Hikmet is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He received the André Blondel Medal in 1995 and the prestigious Edwin H. Armstrong Award in 2003. He served as Editor for several international journals, and was Technical Program Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004). Prior to joining Sequans Communications, he held scientific and key management positions at Philips, SAGEM, Alcatel, Pacific Broadband Communications and Juniper Networks. Presently, he is also Professor and Head of Telecommunications Department at SUPELEC, France.
	Dr. Denis Berlan Dr. Denis Berlan, a former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Altera Corporation. He was previously employed by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., or AMD, a semiconductor manufacturer and by Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturer, in engineering management capacities. He received his M.S.E.E. in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Grenoble in France and an M.B.A. in 1987 from the University of Santa Clara.