Christian Rom

Biography

Christian Rom (christian.rom@nokia.com)  M.Sc.EE. degree, in 2003 specialized in digital communications and CDMA receivers, and the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications in 2008 from Aalborg University. His Ph.D. research focused on physical layer parameter and algorithm study in a downlink OFDM-LTE context. Before joining Nokia, Christian worked as the RF Innovation Manager at Intel Denmark with focus on mmWave beamforming in smartphones and production. He has 20 years’ experience in the wireless industry (Nokia/Intel/Infineon) with multiple roles in the modem chip industry for tier1 customer. During his career, he led large funding research projects in areas such as real world modelling and virtualization of propagation via ray-tracing to comparison of the models results with on-device measurements in the field, then linking these to link and system level tool development, PHY & MIMO Tx-Rx algorithms, and performance benchmarking and differentiation all the way to final mass scale product ramp up. He joined Nokia-Bell Laboratories Aalborg, Denmark, in January 2019. In 2022, he was awarded with the Outstanding Inventor in SIP cellular standards at Nokia.