Lajos Hanzo

Lajos Hanzo is a Hungarian-born British electronics engineer, professor and Chair of Telecommunications at the University of Southampton, and a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Press. He studied at the Technical University of Budapest, taking his master's degree in electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983, did research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1980 and 1981, and moved to Southampton in 1986, where he became a lecturer in 1987 and Chair of Telecommunications in 1998. His research covers multiple-input multiple-output systems, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, visible light communication, turbo coding and quantum communications, and he has published more than two thousand papers and co-authored nineteen research monographs. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004, received the IET Sir Monty Finniston Award in 2008, was elected a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2016, and received the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award in 2022.