Hirley Alves

D.Sc. (Tech)
Professor in Machine-type Wireless Communications
Machine-type Wireless Communications; Wireless Communications;

Centre for Wireless Communications
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Assoc. Prof. Hirley Alves

Hirley Alves (S’11-M’15-SM'26) is a Professor and Head of the Machine-type Wireless Communications Group at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu.

Prof. Alves is the Doctoral Programme Director at the ITEE.

He works on resilient mobile communications, and machine-type communications for future mobile networks.

In addition, he coordinates the Massive Wireless Automation activities for the 6G Flagship Program. He has received several awards and has been the organiser, chair, TPC, and tutorial lecturer for several renowned international conferences.

Research interests

  • Machine-type wireless communication; mMTC; URLLC;
  • Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communications;
  • Distributed mMIMO; Distributed ML; Compressive Sensing;
  • LPWANs; Satellite IoT; Direct to Satellite;
  • Green Communications; Wireless Energy Transfer;
  • 5GB; 6G;

Researcher information

Researcher profiles

Assoc. Prof. Hirley Alves

Contact information

E-mail

Hirley.Alves@oulu.fi

Visiting address

Pentti Kaiteran katu 3, 4th floor - TS-wing

Postal address

POBox 4500
90014 Oulu, Finland

Keywords

Wireless communications and communications technology Internet of things wireless communications engineering wireless technologies and applications of the wireless internet