Gerhard Paul Fettweis (born March 16, 1962 in Antwerp) is a German-American Electrical Engineer and Professor for Telco-Engineering. Gerhard's father Alfred Fettweis invented the Wave Digital Filter. With a scholarship from the prestigious Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Gerhard studied Electrical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen from 1981 to 1986, and completed his PhD there in 1990. He then worked as a visiting scholar with IBM and TCSI Inc. in Berkeley. As of 1994 he holds the Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications Systems at the Technischen Universität Dresden.