Bio

I am Ramon y Cajal Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Signal Theory and Communications department of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

I received my M.S. degree (Cum Laude) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, and my Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. My Ph.D. studies were co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Catalan Telecommunications Technological Center (CTTC) of Barcelona. During my Ph.D. studies I spent more than a year at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands, working on the application of network coding in satellite communication networks. After my Ph.D. studies I spent nearly four years at the Institute for Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), near Munich, Germany, working as Senior Researcher and Project Manager. There I have been managing and working as researcher on projects funded by ESA, the European Union, and the German state. Between 2017 and 2019 I was with the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (robotics) and with the LTS4 Signal Processing Laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow funded by the European Commission. While at EPFL I worked on UAV communications, focusing on delay-constrained video compression and streaming. I also collaborated in a project with Swisscom, in which we developed and successfully tested a drone-aided localization system for LoRaWAN networks (more information here). Between 2019 and 2022, after being awarded the Beatriu de Pinos grant by the Catalan Government, I have been with the Information Theory and Coding group of Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. There I focused on the fundamental limits of reliable communications, random access and UAV communications. In 2022 I have been awarded a Ramon y Cajal fellowship and in 2023 I joined the Signal Theory and Communications department of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

I published more than forty between international peer-reviewed journals and conference papers. I published one book about advanced wireless random access systems, one book chapter and I hold three patents.

I have been advisor of one Ph.D. and I mentored several M.S. and B.A. students, I served three times as member of Ph.D. evaluation committees and I have been session chair at several IEEE-funded international conferences.

My research interests lie in the fields of satellite and UAV communications, Information Theory, machine learning, video streaming, interference management, Internet of things (IoT) and robotics.