Bertrand Hochwald served as the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Engineering faculty at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement in 2025. He also co-directed the university's Wireless Institute. Hochwald earned a B.S. from Swarthmore College in 1984, an M.S. from Duke University in 1986, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1995, where he held the Prize Teaching Fellowship. His career includes employment at the Department of Defense, receiving several achievement awards, followed by his professorship at Notre Dame. He has edited for multiple IEEE journals and holds 47 U.S. patents in wireless communication.

Hochwald's research in Electrical Engineering centers on wireless communications, inventing key technologies such as differential multiple-antenna methods, linear dispersion codes, channel estimation analysis, and multi-user vector precoding methods. His earlier contributions addressed high-frequency radio circuits, sixth-generation cellular technologies, and techniques to reduce human exposure to electromagnetic radiation from cell phones. He led the RadioHound spectrum sensing platform project, with sensors designed by graduate students and deployed in trials by the Federal Communications Commission and the US Postal Service. With over 125 publications, several recognized as most-cited by Thomson Reuters, notable works include "Achieving near-capacity on a multiple-antenna channel" (2003), "How much training is needed in multiple-antenna wireless links?" (2003), "A vector-perturbation technique for near-capacity multiantenna multiuser communication-part I: channel inversion and regularization" (2005), "Capacity of a mobile multiple-antenna communication link in Rayleigh flat fading" (2002), and "Unitary space-time modulation for multiple-antenna communications in Rayleigh flat fading" (2002). His innovations have profoundly shaped communication theory and practice. Hochwald is an IEEE Fellow, National Academy of Inventors Fellow (2019), recipient of the 2018 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award with Ding Nie, multiple Thomson Reuters "World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds" honors, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Professional Email: bhochwald@nd.edu