Wen Xu

Wen Xu (SM’03) received the B.Sc. degree, in 1982, and the M.Sc. degree, in 1985, from Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, China, and the Dr.-Ing. degree, in 1996, from Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany, all in electrical engineering. From 1995 to 2006, he was with the Siemens Mobile (later BenQ Mobile), Munich, Germany, where he was the Head of the Algorithms and Standardization Laboratory. As a competence center, the laboratory was responsible for physical layer and multimedia signal processing, and partly protocol stack aspects of 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile terminals, and actively involved in standardization activities of ETSI, 3GPP, DVB, and ITU. From 2007 to 2014, he was with Infineon Technologies AG (later Intel Mobile Communications GmbH), Neubiberg, Germany, focusing on wireline and wireless system concepts/architectures and software/hardware implementations. In 2014, he joined Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH European Research Center, Munich, Germany, where is the Head of Radio Access Technologies Department. His research interests include signal processing, source/channel coding and wireless communications systems in general. He is a member of the Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik (VDE), Germany.