Huawei-Aveiro RF Technology Joint Lab at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) was awarded the "Huawei Corporate-Level Excellent Technical Cooperation Project 2022" in recognition of its outstanding research contributions within Huawei Technologies, under the dynamic leadership of José Carlos Pedro, who currently is also the President of IT. This significant honor was conferred during the European Microwave Week 2023 in Berlin.

The President of the Huawei European Research Institute, Liu Shaowei, highlighted the remarkable journey of collaboration between IT and Huawei, beginning with an award for best academic collaboration in Huawei's Wireless division in 2015. 

In 2011, the Wireless Circuits-Av group at IT initiated a collaboration with Huawei Technologies through the Stockholm Research Centre. This marked the beginning of a four-year research project that would be succeeded by several others, establishing a bond between the two institutions for over 12 years. This enduring partnership has not only supported numerous undergraduate and master's students but also resulted in the publication of numerous scientific articles. Additionally, it boasts the successful completion of five doctoral programs with four more currently in progress.

In 2021, Huawei Technologies reinforced its investment in this research, through the establishment of the "Huawei-Aveiro RF Technology Joint Lab" under a four-year collaborative research protocol, with the potential for a four-year extension.

The Wireless Circuits-Av group has been developing both fundamental and applied knowledge for the performance improvement of RF transmitters of wireless communication systems base stations.

Being supported by many years of studies on disparate topics such as electron device modeling, RF/microwave electronics, or nonlinear signal processing, the group has been able to help Huawei’s similar research teams to bridge the gap between the basic physical properties of RF power transistors to the efficiency and linearity of the amplifiers within which they are used, and the gap between these RF circuits and the system-level performance of the wireless base-station transmitter systems, where they play a key role.