WORKING EXPERIENCE

      - 2019-present Full Professor in Telecommunications and Signal Processing at DI (Department of Engineering), University of Perugia – ITALY

      - 2005-2019 Associate Professor in Telecommunications and Signal Processing at D.I.E.I. (Department of Electronic and Information Engineering),  Faculty of Engineering,  University of Perugia – ITALY

      - 1997–2005: Assistant Professor at D.I.E.I. (Department of Electronic and Information Engineering) - University of Perugia – ITALY

      - 1993–2000: Technical Consultant for Itelco s.p.a. (now Electrosys) – Orvieto – ITALY (Broadcasting transmission techniques and predistortion)

       

      EDUCATION

      06/98: Ph.D. in Telecommunication at University of Perugia – ITALY  Thesis on "Non Linear Distortion analysis and predistortion in OFDM systems".

      09/93: Laurea Degree (Master Science) in Electronics and Telecommunications at University of Perugia-ITALY

      07/86: Scientific High School Diploma at Scientific Lyceum "G.Alessi" in Perugia –ITALY

       

      RESEARCH ACTIVITY (Detailed CV) 

      My research activity in the telecommunication systems has been focused for several years on non-linear distortion phenomena analysis and compensation. This activity has been developed in collaboration with the Itelco s.p.a. from 1995 to 2000.
      Inside this topic, the sensitivity of OFDM systems to distortions introduced by non linear amplifiers in Broadcasting (DAB, DVB-T) and WLAN (IEEE 802.11) applications has been investigated. The collaboration with Itelco lead also to the realization and patenting of a BaseBand and a Mixed BaseBand-IF predistorter.
      Around 2000, a research activity in Multiuser Detection for W-CDMA has been developed, with particular interest in the sensitivity of MMSE blind multiuser detectors to Channel and Correlation Matrices Estimation errors, as well as paying attention to the theoretical performance analysis of such systems in non-linear fading channels.
      Successively my research interests was  mainly focused on Block Transmission Techniques for Multi-User Wireless Communication Systems (e.g. OFDM, Multicarrier-CDMA, etc). Specifically I have been working on the performance degradation induced by Carrier Frequency Offset at the receiver side, on Linear Precoding techniques and Local Maximum Likelihood reception, as well as on estimatio and equalization of fast fading channels also in MIMO scenarios. In this framework I also investigated optimal estimation and reception in the presence of impulsive noise environments, with applications in wireless and wired communications, as well as       signal waveform design, processing and estimation for 5G wireless systems,.

      Around 2010 I was also involved on signal processing for bio-medical applications, with specific interest on ECG acquistion and compression, and  signal waveform design for  high-resolution coded-excitation ultrasound: this activity lead to the realization of a fully-functional ECG device with embedded PC, and an ultrasound laboratory test-bed for generation and acquisition of ultrasound signals. 

      Around 2015 I started fousing on signal processing on graphs coupled with adaptive and distributed algorithms. Signal processing on graphs is a rather new theoretical subject, that  rapidly emerged in the technical literature and where signal are defined over a non-metric space such as a graph, rather than a metric space such as the real/integer fields of classical signal processing. This general tool can effectively model phenomenon such as the observations of a sensor/communication network, or of vehicular rather than a power-grid network,  or the information associated to nodes of a social network, as well as the concentration of proteins in a gene regulatory network, capturing and exploiting the structural relations among the nodes of the networks (graph). This research topic has been developed in collaboration with Prof. P. Di Lorenzo, and Prof. S. Barbarossa from University of Rome "La Sapienza", and partially with Prof. G. Leus and Doct. Elvin Isufi, from University of Delft, in the Netherlands. More recently, during my visting at Stony Brook University, I also collaborated with Prof. Petar Djuric, on reserach projects related to brain-networks signal analysis and learning. This collaboration lead to an interesting fully Bayesian framework, leveraging on Gaussian Processes, to learn the edge of a graph by observing time series of data collected by its nodes. 

      Arond 2020, within the PRIN founded project Liquid-Edge, I started working in collaboration with Prof. P. Di Lorenzo, and Prof. S. Barbarossa from University of Rome "La Sapienza”, on Goal-oriented communications, a promising and rapidly emerging framework for machine learning and AI enabled by wireless edge-computing. Specifically we have been focusing on a holistic resource management and control, including both transmission, computational and learning resources, such that the learning tasks of one or multiple, possibly collaborating, users, is fulfilled with the desired tradeoff among accuracy, delay and energy consumption. This activity is still continuing in the NetWin project, within the PNRR RESTART action, where we investigated efficient semantic compression of the information to be transmitted, as well as coupling Lypunov optimization with conformal risk control, to handle resource optimization policies with both deterministic and statistical relability guarantees. 

       

      TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES

         - 2019 - present  Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal on Signal Processing .
      -        2012-2016, Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing (2+2 years term).
      -  2012-2019, Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Springer Ed. (3+3 year term).
      - 2011-2014 (3 year term), Elected by international colleagues as a member of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. 
      - 2011-2013, Member of the Scientific Committee at CNIT, National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications, as representative of the CNIT Research Unit in Perugia.
      - 2013-2016 (3 year term), Member of the Directive Committee at CNIT, National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications, as a delegate of the Dean of the University of Perugia.
      - 2009, General Co-Chair for IEEE SPAWC 2009, Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications, Perugia, Italy, June 2009.
      - 2012 TC-Member for IEEE ICASSP, Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
      - 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 TPC-Member for IEEE SPAWC, Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications.
      - 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013  TPC Associate-Reviewer for IEEE ICASSP,  Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
      - 2010, TPC Associate-Reviewer for SPAWC 2010, Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications.
      - 2005, 2007, 2008, TPC-Member for IEEE ICC' Int. Conference on Communications.
      - 2008, Member of the Scientific Committee for the annual meeting of the Italian Group for Telecommunications and Information Technology (GTTI), Firenze.
      - 2006, TPC-Member for IEEE ISSPIT, Int. Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology.
      - 2006, 2007, TPC-Member for IEEE Globecom, Satellite and Space Comm. Symposium.
      - 2006, TPC-Member for EURASIP Eusipco, European Signal Processing Conference.
      - Member of commissions to assign Italian Research Assistant positions: Univ. of Napoli “Federico II” (2003), Univ. of Padova (2005).
      - Member of commissions for Italian PhD final exam: Univ. of Perugia (2009), Univ. of Padova (2010), Univ. of Pisa (2012), Univ. of Roma “La Sapienza”(2013), Polytechnic University of Marche (2016).

      REVIEWER for the following International Journals
       - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
       - IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
       - EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (Hindawi Publisher),
       - EURASIP Signal Processing Journal (Elsevier Publisher).
       - IEEE Transactions on Communications,
       - IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
       - IEEE Communications Letters,
       - European Transactions on Communications (Wiley)
       - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Commun. and Networking (Hindawi)
       - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
       - Electronic and Telecomm. Research Institute Journal (ETRI)
       - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
       - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentations and Measuraments
       - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 

       

      INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES

        - 2019-2020 (12 months): Visiting Professor at the ECE Department, Stony Brook University, NY, USA, collaborating with Prof. Petar Djuric. 

        - 2001 (6 months): Visiting Assistant Professor at the  SpinComm research group, coordinated by Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis, ECE Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
      - 2001-2005: scientific collaboration with       Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis, ECE Department, University of Minnesota,, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
      - 2001-present: scientific collaboration with       Prof. Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology (DUT), Dept. EEMC,, 2628CD Delft, the Netherlands.
      - 2010-present: scientific collaboration with Doct. H. Suraweera, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
      - 2008-2009: scientific collaboration with Prof. M. G. Martini, Kingston University, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, London, UK.
      - 2007-2009: scientific collaboration with Doct. Matteo Berioli, DLR German Aerospace Center, Institute of Communications and Navigation, Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling, Germany.
      - 2000-2006: Local Coordinator of the Erasmus student exchange program with European Institute of Higher Education Brussels       (EHSAL), Belgium.
      - 2003-present: Local Coordinator of the Erasmus (+) student exchange program with       EEMC Dept. - Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands..


      TEACHING EXPERIENCE

         - 1998-2000: Teaching Assistant in the “Signal Theory” class for the Laurea Degree (BS+MS) in Electronics and Telecommunications at University of Perugia, Italy.
      - 1998-2000: Teaching Assistant in the “Telecommunication System” class for the Laurea Degree (BS+MS) in Electronics and Telecommunications at University of Perugia, Italy.
      - 1998-2007: Teacher of the “Signal Theory” class for the Laurea (BS) Degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications in Orvieto, University of Perugia, Italy.
      - 2001-2003: Teacher of the “Probability and Stochastic Processes” class for the Laurea Degree (BS) in Computer Science and Telecommunications in Orvieto, University of Perugia, Italy.
      - 2001-2008: Teacher of the “Probability and Stochastic Processes” class for the Laurea (BS) Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications at University of Perugia, Italy.
      - 2001-2008: Teacher of the “Signal Theory” class for the Laurea Degree (MS+BS) in Electronics and Telecommunications at University of Perugia, Italy.
      - 2008-present: Teacher of the (analog and digital) “Signal Theory” class for the Laurea (BS) Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications at University of Perugia, Italy.
      - 2011-present: Teacher of the “Wireless Communications” class for the Magister Laurea (MS) Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications at University of Perugia, Italy.
      - 2017-            : Teacher of the “Signal Processing for Big Data Analytics” class for the Magister Laurea (MS) Degree in Informatics and Robotics: curruculum Data Science.