Mérouane Debbah is a researcher and tech entrepreneur. Since 2007, he is a full professor at CentraleSupélec. He has founded several research labs, start-ups and is now jointly the director of the Huawei Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab and the Lagrange Mathematical and Computing Research Center in Paris. His research has been lying at the interface of fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information and communication sciences, with a special focus on the applications of random matrix theory to communication sciences. In the wireless Communication field, he is one of the pioneers of the small cells (4G) and Massive MIMO technologies (5G). He is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, and a Membre émérite SEE.