Matthew Baker - iCore Inaugural Workshop Panellist

Matthew Baker was Chairman of 3GPP TSG RAN Working Group 1 between 2009 and 2013, and is the RAN Standards Leader and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Alcatel-Lucent. Since 2013 he has been Vice-Chairman of 3GPP TSG RAN Working Group 1. He holds degrees in Engineering and Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and he has been actively participating in the standardization of both UMTS/HSPA and LTE in 3GPP since 1999. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, he worked at Philips for 12 years, where he conducted research into a variety of wireless communication systems and techniques, including propagation modeling, DECT, Hiperlan and UMTS, as well as leading the Philips 3GPP RAN standardization team. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, UK. He is co-editor of "LTE - The UMTS Long Term Evolution: From Theory to Practice" (Wiley, Second Edition 2012) and author of numerous papers.