ProfessorMark Flanagan

Mark F. Flanagan received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland, in 1998 and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UCD, having been first appointed as SFI Stokes Lecturer in 2008. Prior to this, he held post-doctoral research fellowship positions with the University of Zurich, Switzerland, the University of Bologna, Italy, and the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. His research interests broadly span wireless communications, coding and information theory, and signal processing. He was a recipient of the Consolidator Laureate Award from the Irish Research Council (IRC) in 2018 and the Stokes Lectureship Award from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) in 2008. In 2014, he was a Visiting Senior Scientist with the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, Munich, under a DLR-DAAD Fellowship.

 

Prof. Flanagan is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Radio Communications Society (RCC). He is an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, having served as an Editor and as an Editor-at-Large from 2021–2025. He served in the roles of Editor, Senior Editor and Executive Editor for IEEE Communications Letters during the period Jan 2012 - Dec 2021. He was TPC Co-Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium at IEEE ICC 2024 and Lead Track Co-Chair for the "Physical Layer and Communication Theory" Track at IEEE WCNC 2024. He served as TPC Co-Chair for the Communication Theory Symposium at IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 and at IEEE ICC 2020, and as TPC Co-Chair of the Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Future Wireless Communications at IEEE ICC 2021. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Special Interest Group on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces of the Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at Globecom 2021. He has been a member of the Steering Committee for the Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC) since 2012, and he served as the General Chair of ISSC 2023. He is also actively involved in national Mathematics Outreach programmes, and is a founding Director of the Irish Mathematical Trust (IMT).