ACM NanoCom 2025

12th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

Chengdu, China, October 23-25, 2025

  

Keynote Speakers

Keynote 1
Session Chair: TBD
Time: TBD
	Robert Schober Professor Department of Electrical-Electronic-Communication Engineering Institute for Digital Communications (IDC) Room 05.034 Cauerstraße 7 91058 Erlangen, Germany

Abstract: TBD

Short Biography
Robert Schober (Fellow, IEEE) received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.

From 2002 to 2011, he was a Professor and a Canada Research Chair with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Since January 2012, he has been an Alexander von Humboldt Professor and the Chair for Digital Communication with FAU. His research interests fall into the broad areas of communication theory, wireless and molecular communications, and statistical signal processing.

Prof. Schober received several awards for his work including the 2002 Heinz Maier Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation, the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications, the 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize, the 2007 Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC, the 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, the 2012 NSERC E.W.R. Stacie Fellowship, the 2017 Wireless Communications Recognition Award by the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee, the 2021 ACM NanoCom Milestone Award, the 2022 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart F. Meyer Memorial Award, and a Honorary Doctorate from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2024. Furthermore, he received numerous Best Paper Awards for his work including the 2022 ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize and the 2023 ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize. Since 2017, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Institute of Canada, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academia Europaea, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), and the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). He served as an Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, VP Publications of the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc), ComSoc Member at Large, and ComSoc Treasurer. He currently serves as a Senior Editor for Proceedings of the IEEE and as a ComSoc President.

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