Professor Marco Di Renzo is a Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at King’s College London, having joined in January 2025.

He received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013.

Currently, he is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group with the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) at CNRS & CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France. He holds this post as well as being a Professor of Telecommunications Engineering with the Centre for Telecommunications Research in the Department of Engineering at King's.

He was a France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT at the University of Oulu (Finland), a Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellow in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), a Fulbright Fellow at The City University of New York (USA), a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalto University (Finland), and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, EURASIP, and AAIA; an Academician of AIIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea; an Ordinary Member of the Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology; an Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation; and a Highly Cited Researcher.

His recent research awards include the Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award, the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, and the IEEE Communications Society Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.

He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters from 2019 to 2023. His current main roles within the IEEE Communications Society include serving as a Voting Member of the Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee, as the Chair of the Publications Misconduct Ad Hoc Committee, and as the Director of Journals. Also, he is the Founding Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Emerging Technology Initiative on Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory.

Research interests

• Telecommunications Engineering
• Wireless Communications
• Communication Theory
• Signal Processing
• Optimization and Resource Allocation
• Stochastic Geometry
• Spatial and Index Modulation
• Multiple-input Multiple-output Systems
• Reconfigurable Metasurfaces
• Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
• Holographic Surfaces
• Integrated Sensing and Communication
• Surface Electromagnetics
• Wave-domain Communication, Sensing and Computation
• Electromagnetic Signal and Information Theory

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