Dr.Lu's Work

Prof. Willie W.Lu - Chief inventor of Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) technology, chief strategic advisor of global 3G/B3G/4G and consulting professor of Stanford University. He is/was senior principal wireless architect and vice president in Infineon Technologies (SIEMENS Microelectronics) and visiting guest professor in Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has extensive research, publication, consulting, and industrial experiences in the design and analysis of advanced emerging wireless telecommunication systems and networks, computer communication systems, local, metropolitan, and wide area communications networks, marketing analysis and strategies. He has profound expertise in the implementation of software definable base station technology, wireless mobile ATM technology, third generation mobile communications, broadband wireless access, wireless mobile Internet, open wireless & mobile platform, converged broadband wireless core and high-speed packet division multiplex as well as All-IP network interconnections. Prof.Lu was also the chairman of Wireless Mobile ATM Task Force, CDMA Technical Forum and 3Gwireless Technical Forum, etc , technical teams of telecommunications and wireless communications experts who develop and implement the next generation wireless multimedia systems. He also founded the world's first Fourth Generation Mobile Forum (4GMF) to initiate the research on "Beyond 3G" wireless mobile communications. Previously, Prof. Lu served as a guest scientist of German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD) in Berlin of Germany. His other work had involved the design of USA CDMA system in Nortel, wireless data network in NTT, multimedia communications in MIMOS of Malaysia and digital switching system in MPT of China, etc. Willie is very highly accredited and an invited technical advisor by many telecom industries in USA and Europe as well as special advisor for many ICT authorities in the world. Since 2001, he has become a chief technical advisor of some world's leading mobile communication operators on emerging wireless technical strategies. Prof. Lu is an IEEE senior member and served as general or technical chairman of the IEEE Globecom'2003, IEEE VTC'2003, IEEE Globecom' 2000/ 2001/ 2002 Broadband Wireless Symposium, 3Gwireless'2000/ 2001, WAS'2000/ 2002, IFIP BWAN'2000, IEEE WCNC'2002 and World Wireless Congress 2002-2006; and has organized many other workshops and symposia. Willie has been a member of technical program committee of over 100 major international technical conferences. He has served as IEEE reviewer on network architecture and switching systems, wireless mobile ATM, 3G wireless, 4G mobile and broadband wireless access systems for over 10 years, and has contributed over 150 publications in IEEE, IEICE, ACM, etc. He has been a principal guest editor of over 40 IEEE/IEICE Special Issues on wmATM, 3Gwireless, 4Gmobile, OWA, broadband wireless and wireless mobile Internet, etc in IEEE Communications Magazine; in IEEE Wireless Communications, in ACM/Baltzer Journal of Wireless Network; in ACM/Baltzer Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications; in Computer Network; in IEICE Trans. on Communications; in IEEE Network Magazine; in Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, etc. Willie was the founding chairman of IEEE 3Gwireless conference which now becomes the world's famous World Wireless Congress. Prof. Lu was/is also a voting member of SIGMA XI, ACM as well as IEICE Japan, CIC/CIE China, and has been listed in numerous editions of The Marquis Who's Who for telecommunications advancement and the expert committee of technical evaluation by European Commission. Prof. Lu sits in the editorial board of IEEE Spectrum - the flag of IEEE, in view of his authoritative position in the field. Willie is also the feature editor of wireless communications series in IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications. He is also a part-time supervisor and external academic examiner on doctorate programme for lots of leading universities and institutions all over the world. Due to his remarkable contributions in wireless communications, Prof.Lu was elected to "The Outstanding People of the 20th Century" by the famous Cambridge IBC of England. He was also member of U.S. DARPA 4G Advisory Committee and member of Technological Advisory Council of U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Prof. Lu is a distinguished and accredited overseas Chinese expert in wireless technologies and one of the global founders of B3G and 4G initiatives. In 2004, Prof. Lu founded the Global Mobile Congress in China, which becomes the most authoritative wireless R&D platform in the great China region. He can speak English, Chinese, Japanese and some German.

Prof. Lu has his principal offices in San Francisco, Shanghai and Geneva, etc. He is traveling frequently across the global on technologies, standards and strategies of B3G and 4G. He can be reached by e-mail (susan<at>cwc.us) or Tel (+1-650-288-4306).