Olivier Seller

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner:

As one of the inventors of LoRa^® technology, Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee and alternate to the Board of Directors, Olivier is the editor of the LoRaWAN link-layer (L2) specification. He has made significant contributions to the direction and development of the L2 specification, NetID and several other specs, and he was instrumental to LoRaWAN’s recognition as a standard by ITU-T. He has also supported the development of numerous technical recommendations regarding the proper implementation of the LoRaWAN standard.

 

Member Bio:

Olivier Seller is Technical Fellow, wireless IP at Semtech. He joined Semtech in 2012 following the acquisition of Cycleo, the LoRa start-up, which he co-founded. He co-invented LoRa with Nicolas Sornin, focusing on the LoRa modulation itself and its digital implementation. Olivier studied in Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris, then worked in the telecom or semiconductor industries with experiences in a 802.16 start-up, in Orange, and in Cambridge Silicon Radio. He there alternated functions in R&D, management and executives support. Olivier architected the LoRa localisation solution at radio level i.e. gateways, timestamp algorithms, solver. He designed and implemented the “find my stuff” radio capability of LoRa chips.