Joerg Widmer is Research Director as well as Research Professor at IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain. His research focuses on wireless networks, ranging from extremely high frequency millimeter-wave communication and MAC layer design to mobile network architectures. From 2005 to 2010, he was manager of the Ubiquitous Networking Research Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, Germany, leading several projects in the area of mobile and cellular networks. Before, he worked as post-doctoral researcher at EPFL, Switzerland on ultra-wide band communication and network coding. He was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, USA, University College London, UK, and TU Darmstadt, Germany. Joerg Widmer authored more than 250 conference and journal papers and three IETF RFCs, and holds 14 patents. He serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Computer Networks and the program committees of several major conferences. He was awarded an ERC consolidator grant, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, a Spanish Ramon y Cajal grant, as well as thirteen best paper awards. He is Fellow of the IEEE and Distinguished Member of the ACM.
News
- Best paper award at IEEE Infocom 2024 for the paper "AIChronoLens: Advancing Explainability for Time Series AI Forecasting in Mobile Networks"
- Best paper award at ACM MobiHoc 2023 for the paper "Scalable multi-modal learning for cross-link channel prediction in massive IoT networks"
- Best paper award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 for the paper "Characterizing sub-THz MIMO channels in practice: a novel channel sounder with absolute time reference"
- Paper "SYMBXRL: Symbolic explainable deep reinforcement learning for mobile networks", IEEE Infocom, London, UK, May 2025
- Paper "AIChronoLens: AI/ML explainability for time series forecasting in mobile networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Mar. 2025
- Paper "Scalable multi-modal learning for cross-link channel prediction in massive iot networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Mar. 2025
- Paper "DeExp: Revealing model vulnerabilities for spatio-temporal mobile traffic forecasting with explainable AI", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Jan. 2025
- Paper "Demystifying resource allocation policies in operational 5G mmwave networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Jan. 2025
- Talk on how to do research for PhD students and young researchers [PDF]
Publications
Google scholar profile
List of all publications
Research Group
Senior Researchers
Postdocs
- Dr. Andrea Bedin
- Dr. Marco Canil
- Dr. Syed Waqas Haider Shah
PhD Students
- Bei Ouyang
- Pablo Saucedo de Miguel
- Sai Deram
- Salil Sharma
- Serly Moghadas Gholian
Research Support
- Rafael Ruiz, Research Engineer
- Pablo Fernandez, Research Engineer
- Anthony Sanchez, Research Engineer
- Francisco Javier Hervas Alonso, Project Manager
Projects
- Advancing 6G-RAN through multi-technology, multi-sensor fusion, multi-band and multi-static perception (MultiX), SNS JU and European Union (Horizon Europe) 101192521, January 2025 to June 2027
- Joint Communication and Sensing in 6G Networks (6thSense), Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Networks, February 2024 to January 2028
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Non-Terrestrial Communications and Sensing (UNITE), Horizon Europe HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01 Grant Agreement 101129618, December 2023 to November 2027
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Low-power Technologies for Communication and Sensing in 6G Mobile Networks (RISC-6G), National Project of the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, European Union NextGeneration-EU, January 2022 to March 2025
- 6G location and sensing-based analytics (ELSA), National Project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation PID2022-136769NB-I00, September 2023 to August 2026
- Technologies for sensing and communication in 6G networks (TUCAN6-CM), regional project Comunidad de Madrid, January 2025 to December 2028
Past projects
Professional activities
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2025-)
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Transactions on Mobile Computing (2017-2025)
Editor Elsevier Computer Networks (2017-2024)
General Chair ACM Mobicom 2023
Guest Editor IEEE JSAC Special Issue on "The Future of Wi-Fi and Wireless Technologies in Unlicensed Spectra"
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Communications (2010-2017)
Recent TPC memberships:
- ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking 2025 (Mobicom)
- ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing 2025 (MobiHoc)
- IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 2025 (Infocom)
- and others
