Summary
Florian Kaltenberger is an Associate Professor at EURECOM with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and open-source 5G development. Trained in computational and applied mathematics (PhD, Vienna University of Technology), he leads the OpenAirInterface RAN project group and served as General Secretary of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, driving delivery of non-standalone and standalone 5G implementations. His work blends signal processing, MIMO and channel modeling with software-defined radio engineering, and he manages multiple industry and academic projects around a real-time open-source 5G platform. A recognized experimentalist—winner of the Neal Shepherd Best Propagation Award—he also teaches radio engineering and spent a sabbatical fostering collaboration between open-source RAN communities at Northeastern University. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns rigorous theoretical insight into practical, production-grade wireless stacks.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational and Applied Mathematics at Vienna University of Technology
German, French, English