Abstract
This talk will follow a bottom-up approach to highlight innovative solutions and open challenges for terahertz communications and sensing systems on the ground, in the air, and space. Specific topics include ultrabroadband waveforms designs that can not only overcome but leverage molecular absorption; innovative wavefronts for near-field THz links including self-healing Bessel and curving Airy beams, and early hints to design a protocol stack for ultrabroadband ultradirectional networks. In addition, the advantageous role of THz frequencies in satellite communication networks will be discussed, highlighting their potential for high-speed access links, and the upcoming, first-of-its-kind, TeraLink experimental mission.
Bio
Josep Miquel Jornet is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University (NU), the Associate Dean of Research of the College of Engineering (COE), the Associate Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT), and the Director of the Ultrabroadband Nanonetworking (UN) Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in August 2013. His research interests are in terahertz communication networks, wireless nano-bio-communication networks, and the Internet of Nano- Things. He has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications in these areas, including one book and five US patents. His work has received over 20,000 citations (h-index of 65 as of June 2025). He is serving as the lead PI on multiple grants from U.S. federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, and industry. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2019, the 2022 IEEE ComSoc RCC Early Achievement Award, and the 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Outstanding Young Researcher Award, among others, as well as eight best paper awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (Class of 2024) and served as an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (Class of 2022-2024). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier Nano Communication Networks journal and Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications, and Nature Scientific Reports.
