Florian Kaltenberger

Florian Kaltenberger is an Associate Professor in the Communication Systems department at EURECOM (Biot, France). Prof. Kaltenberger received his Diploma degree (Dipl.-Ing.) and his PhD both in Technical Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology 2002 and 2007 respectively. He joined EURECOM in 2007 and has been working on the open-source project OpenAirInterface ever since then. Today he is coordinating the developments of the OAI radio access network project group, which delivered support for 5G non-standalone access in 2020 and for 5G standalone access in 2021. He also manages several research projects (industrial and academic) around the platform with special focus on massive and distributed multi-antenna systems, positioning and localization as well as non-terrestrial networks. From 2023 to 2025 he was a visiting professor at Northeastern University (Boston, MA, USA) where he was working on the development of the X5G platform and the proliferation of the use OpenAirInterface in the United States. He is also a special advisor to the board of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance and its recently created sister organization in the United States, the OpenAirInterface Foundation.