Leadership
Dr. Wen Tong is the Vice President of Wireless Research and CTO of Wireless of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Dr. Tong received Master of Science and Doctorate Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining Huawei in March 2009, he was the Nortel Fellow and Head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel, and a member of the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research. He has pioneered fundamental technologies in wireless with 90 granted US patents and more than 200 patents filings.
Dr. Tong has conducted the advanced research work spanning from 1G to 4G wireless at Nortel. From 1997 to 1999, he was responsible for the prototyping of advanced CDMA technology which led industry’s first 3G wireless packet data sessions using CDMA2000 1xRTT technology in the field. He was one of the critical inventors of turbo coding interleaver, a key enabler that boosts speed and efficiency of 3G networks, which has been adopted for all 3G/4G standards. From 1998 to 2006, he had been a driving force in developing foundational technologies for all the 4G wireless networks–OFDM-MIMO. He is an industry-recognized pioneer on OFDM-MIMO. He has been a key contributor and initiator to 3GPP (UMTS and LTE), 3GPP2 (CDMA 1xRTT 1xEV-DO and UMB), and IEEE802.16e (WiMAX), IEEE802.16j (Mobile Multi-Hop Relay) standards. In 2006, and 2007, his team was twice-winner of Nortel Technology Excellent Award (highest level R&D award). Since 2007, Dr. Tong had been the director of Wireless Technology Labs. In 2008, Dr. Tong was the head of Network Technology Labs, responsible for Nortel’s global strategic technologies research and development and was a member of the Executive Edge team. He also serves on the NSERC discovery grant committee.
In 2007, Dr. Tong was inducted as Nortel Fellow, a lifetime honor bestowed to only five selected individuals in Nortel’s R&D community during Nortel’s 114-year history. Dr. Tong was Nortel’s most prolific inventor.