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Team & Partners

Meet the academic investigators and industry collaborators shaping O²-RAN across four technical and integration teams.

Project Leadership

Coordination and research across four complementary technical areas.

Portrait of Farshad Firouzi
Project Lead & Principal Investigator

Farshad Firouzi

Johns Hopkins University

Research & Integration Teams
RESEARCH AREA 01

Radio Unit

Portrait accompanying the name Rahi

Rahi

Skylark Wireless

Non-terrestrial RU platforms and radio prototypes
RESEARCH AREA 02

O-RAN

Portrait accompanying the name Bliss

Daniel W. Bliss

Arizona State University

Portrait accompanying the name Afghah

Fatemeh Afghah

Clemson University

Portrait accompanying the name Nguyen

Nguyen

DASH Tech IC

Open RAN architecture, software stack, and control
RESEARCH AREA 03

AI & MEC

Portrait accompanying the name Chakrabarty

Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Arizona State University

Portrait accompanying the name Sehatbakhsh

Nader Sehatbakhsh

UCLA

Portrait accompanying the name Bleier

Nathaniel Bleier

University of Michigan

AI-native orchestration and distributed edge intelligence
RESEARCH AREA 04

Use Case & Integration

Portrait accompanying the name Vereza

Vereza

General Atomics

Portrait accompanying the name Pinnamaneni

Pinnamaneni

Aethero

Portrait accompanying the name Afghah

Fatemeh Afghah

Clemson University

Portrait accompanying the name Firouzi

Farshad Firouzi

Johns Hopkins University

Portrait accompanying the name Rahi

Rahi

Skylark Wireless

Aerial, satellite and multi-domain system demonstration

Team assignments follow the supplied consortium slide. Farshad Firouzi's current affiliation is shown as Johns Hopkins University, including within Use Case & Integration, per the project team's update.

Consortium Institutions & Partners

Academic and industry organizations represented in the project team.

Academic Institutions

Johns Hopkins University logoJohns Hopkins University
Arizona State University logoArizona State University
Clemson University logoClemson University
UCLA logoUCLA
University of Michigan logoUniversity of Michigan

Industry & Technology Partners

Skylark Wireless logoSkylark Wireless
DASH Tech IC logoDASH Tech IC
General Atomics logoGeneral Atomics
Aethero logoAethero

The organizational structure, member portraits and institutional logos are adapted from the team slide provided by the project. The slide lists Farshad Firouzi with an older ASU association in the integration group; his affiliation has been updated to Johns Hopkins University. Please confirm names, approved logos, current roles and portrait permissions before public launch.

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