Editors’ Biographies
Matthew Baker holds degrees in Engineering and Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge. From 1996 to 2009 he worked at Philips Research where he conducted leading-edge research into a variety of wireless communication systems and techniques, including propagation modelling, DECT, Hiperlan and UMTS, as well as leading the Philips RAN standardization team. He has been actively participating in the standardization of both UMTS WCDMA and LTE in 3GPP since 1999, where he has been active in 3GPP TSG RAN Working Groups 1, 2, 4 and 5, contributing several hundred proposals. He now works for Alcatel-Lucent, which he joined in 2009, and he has been Chairman of 3GPP TSG RAN Working Group 1 since being elected to the post in August of that year. He is the author of several international conference papers and inventor of numerous patents. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK.
Stefania Sesia received her Ph.D. degree in Communication Systems and Coding Theory from both Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis, France) and ENST-Paris (Paris, France) in 2005. From 2002 to 2005 she worked at Motorola Research Labs, Paris, towards her Ph.D. thesis. In June 2005 she joined Philips/NXP Semiconductors (now ST-Ericsson) Research and Development Centre in Sophia Antipolis, France where she was technical leader and responsible for the High Speed Downlink Packet ...
