Tommaso Melodia
Advisor
Tommaso is the Founding Director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) and the William Lincoln Smith Professor at Northeastern University, specializing in AI-RAN, Open RAN and 6G, agentic AI for autonomous network control, spectrum sharing, wireless digital twins, and underwater networks.
He founded and grew INSI into a research community of more than 200 members across Boston, Burlington, Oakland, and London, with over $150M in external research funding since 2019. He also founded and directs Open6G, serves on the Executive Board of the AI-RAN Alliance, and previously served as Director of Research for the PAWR Project Office, a $100M national wireless research program. His work has produced more than 370 peer-reviewed publications and over 40 granted U.S. and international patents.
Tommaso is also CEO and Co-Founder of Hydronet, which develops underwater networking and edge AI for maritime autonomy, security, and critical infrastructure. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and the National Academy of Inventors.