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      Michele Polese

      I am a Research Assistant Professor and the Technical Director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI), Northeastern University, Boston, working on Open RAN, AI-RAN, dApps, spectrum sharing, and 6G.

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Hello!

  • I am a Research Assistant Professor and the Technical Director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI), Northeastern University, Boston (CV). My research interests are on
    • next-generation AI-driven wireless networks, 5G/6G, AI-RAN, and Open RAN
    • open, intelligent, and programmable end-to-end network architectures
    • spectrum sharing and active/passive user coexistence
    • open-source networking software and experimental wireless testbeds
    • performance evaluation of end-to-end complex networks with system-level simulations.

    More on my research: dApps and the E3 interface, AI-RAN, spectrum sharing, and Open6G.

  • I am the chair of the AI-RAN Alliance AI-and-RAN working group. My research on dApps and the E3 interface is now part of major commercial protocol stacks (NVIDIA 5G Aerial, Nokia, Cohere, Radisys). I am also co-founder of zTouch Networks, which won the Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile T-Challenge 2026 and an AI-RAN Alliance Innovation Award, and lead Open6G at Northeastern, the first O-RAN ALLIANCE recognized OTIC in the U.S. to have released a certificate for an O-RAN RU.

  • Previously, I was Principal Research Scientist at Northeastern. I obtained my Ph.D. in 2020 at the University of Padova, Italy, with Prof. Michele Zorzi. During my Ph.D., I visited New York University (NYU), in April 2017, AT&T Labs in Bedminster, NJ, in May and June 2018, and Northeastern University in March-July 2019.

  • Our O-RAN tutorial (open access) is one of most cited resources on this topic (1500+ citations). You can find more resources on the OpenRAN Gym website.

  • Google Scholar profile: Michele Polese. Citations: 15210, h-index: 51 (07/2026).

  • I am interested in social and political issues, in particular the ones related to technology and the disruption brought by it.

  • I play the acoustic and the electric guitar, the banjo, the ukulele, and the bass. Check out this video from one of my bands.

  • I read a lot of books.

  • Currently trying to understanding the magic behind film photography.