Eric Hardouin

VP Networks and Infrastructures Research at Orange

Speaker

Eric Hardouin leads the Orange research on Networks and Infrastructures, which aims at designing the future mobile, fixed and Home network technologies and infrastructures. Eric received his Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from Telecom Bretagne and the University of Rennes 1, France, in 2004. Since then he has been with Orange, where he has been involved in research, standardization and international cooperation activities on future mobile networks, including in 3GPP RAN1 & RAN Plenary, NGMN and French and European research projects. Since 2016, Eric is in charge of the Orange Research on future networks, including mobile, fixed and Home networks. Eric currently represents Orange in the Board of Directors of the IOWN Global Forum, and participates in the Board of Directors of NGMN as alternate to the chairman. Eric is a member of the Scientific Council of the Centrale-Supelec research and teaching institute. Eric is the author of the book “LTE et les réseaux 4G” (in French). Eric is an Orange Fellow.