David Grace

Research Professor, University of York, UK

Why do we need High Altitude Platforms in 5G/6G networks?

Biography

David Grace received his PhD from University of York in 1999. He is now Research Professor and leads the Challenging Environments Research Theme in the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, and is pillar lead for Advanced Communications in the university’s Institute for Safe Autonomy, and Director of the Centre for High Altitude Platform Applications. Current research interests include 5G/6G O-RAN systems, high altitude platforms communications, application of artificial intelligence to wireless communications, dynamic spectrum access and interference management. He leads the £5.5M REACH and is a work package lead for the York-led £7.8M YO-RAN, which are projects developing 5G open radio access networks in collaboration with industry and funded by UK Government. He is an author of over 300 papers, and author/editor of 2 books. He is a member of UK Telecom Infrastructure Network’s Expert Working Group on Non-Terrestrial Networks, which influences government policy and brings together disparate strands of expertise. He is the former chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks in 2013/4 and a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing. From 2014-8 he was a non-executive director of Stratospheric Platforms Ltd, which is developing high altitude platform based wireless systems.