Gerard Joseph Foschini (February 28, 1940 - September 17, 2023), was an American telecommunications engineer who worked for Bell Laboratories from 1961 until his retirement.

Within the telecommunications engineering field, he is best known for his invention of Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (BLAST).

Shortly after that publication, in a technical memorandum for his employers,[2] Foschini introduced the BLAST concept, which is one of the most widely examined techniques in wireless communications research today.

[6] Before his work on BLAST, Foschini had already been elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1986, "for contributions to communications theory".

[7][8] Foschini received the 2008 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal "For seminal contributions to the science and technology of multiple-antenna wireless communications."