Aleksandar Damnjanovic

Vice Chair, Spectrum Working Group at Next G Alliance

Speaker

Aleksandar is a 6G Spectrum Research Lead with Qualcomm Wireless Research and brings more than 25 years of professional experience working on research, development, prototyping and standardization of cellular technologies (i.e., 3G, 4G, 5G, and now 6G) Wi-Fi and UWB. He has contributed to 3GPP standardization activities in RAN WG 1 and RAN WG 2, ETSI BRAN, served as Chair of MFA-Alliance for Private Networks Radio Working Group and contributed to O-RAN Alliance, and CEPT. He is a holder of more than 650 US granted patents with more than 2,100 external citations in the field of wireless communications. His research interests include interference management, medium access, shared spectrum, network MIMO, private and relay networks, cooperative communications, jamming resilience, digital twin, NTN, and ISAC for spectrum bands targeted for 6G deployments. Aleksandar holds Doctor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from The George Washington University, with a minor concentration in Computer Science and Operations Research.