Biography sketch
Andrea Conti
received the Dr.Ing.
degree in telecommunications engineering and the
Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer
science from the University of Bologna, Italy, in
1997 and 2001, respectively. Since 2005, he is
assistant professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy.
Prior to joining the University of Ferrara he was
with Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le
Telecomunicazioni (CNIT, 1999-2002) and Istituto
di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell’Informazione e
delle Telecomunicazioni, Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche (IEIIT/CNR, 2002-2005) at the Research Unit of Bologna, Italy. In
Summer 2001, he joined the Wireless Section of AT&T Research Laboratories,
Middletown, NJ. Since February 2003, he has been a frequent visitor at
the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, where he is presently research
affiliate.
His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications
including localization, adaptive transmission and multichannel reception,
coding in faded multiple-input multiple-output channels, wireless cooperative
networks, and wireless sensor networks.
He is a coauthor of “Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks: Enabling
Technologies, Information Processing and Protocol Design” (Elsevier, 2008).
He is an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS and was Lead Editor for the EURASIP JASP (S.I. on Wireless
Cooperative Networks, 2008). He is TPC Vice-Chair for IEEE WCNC 2009,
Co-Chair of the Wireless Comm. Symp. for IEEE GCC 2010, and has served
as a Reviewer and TPC member for various IEEE journals and conferences.
He is currently serving as secretary of IEEE Radio Communication Committee for the period 2008-2010.