In keeping with its commitment to encouraging young scientists in communications-related fields, the Marconi Society sponsored the poster session at WCNC2017, an annual meeting of the IEEE Communications Society.  WCNC2017 was co-chaired this year by Dr. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford Electrical Engineering Professor and a Marconi director.

The session drew 28 posters and demonstrations from around the world. The judges awarded “On Feasible Deployment Alternatives for On-Demand UAV-based mmWave Access Points,” by Tampere University (Finland) researchers Vitaly Petrov, Margarita Gapeyenko, Dmitri Moltchanov, Sergey Andreev,  and Yevgeni Koucheryavy the top prize.