Kumar Balachandran

Kumar Balachandran is a Principal Researcher and has an appointment as Expert in Wireless Communications Networks with Ericsson Research, where he has worked since 1995. Kumar has worked on a variety of areas in mobile communications spanning the Physical Layer, signal processing, radio resource management, spectrum sharing, protocol design, and systems engineering spanning all five generations of mobile cellular technologies. He has contributed to Ericsson’s outreach to the FCC and the NTIA with technical arguments favoring the release of spectrum for use by the mobile industry. He was a prominent contributor to the specification of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) in the WInnForum and the OnGo Alliance and is currently working on radio resilience and system reliability. Previously, he served as a technical expert on the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council and has been a delegate to the ITU-R. He is currently a delegate to the Next G Alliance (NGA) and is part of Ericsson’s research team working on 6G. He has served as a panelist and invited speaker at several conferences, is well published, has contributed to several books, and has been named on over 100 issued US patents as inventor.