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Biography

Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa received the telecommunication engineering degree from the , Barcelona, Spain, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at , Boston, MA, in 1992.

In 1989 he held a visiting appointment at the European Space Agency Centre in The Netherlands. From the Fall of 1989 until 1992 he was Research Assistant at , Boston, MA and the , Los Angeles, CA, where, upon completion of his Ph.D. degree, he became Research Associate. In 1993 he joined the department of of the , where he became Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2003.

In 1995 he lead UPC's participation in the European Commission funded ACTS Mobile projects TSUNAMI(II) and SUNBEAM that included the analysis of adaptive antennas in 2on and 3rd generation cellular mobile communication systems. Since January 2000 until 2003 he was technical and project coordinator of the IST projects METRA and I-METRA dedicated to the introduction of multi-antenna terminals in UMTS and Systems beyond 3G. Since January 2006 to December 2008 he coordinated the IST project which evaluated the performance of a generalized air interface with self-configuration capabilities. In November 2006 he initiated the coordination together with of the 5 year Type C-Consolider project of the National Research Plan of Spain.

Since December 2008 he is the Coordinator of the Foundations and Methodologies for Future Communication and Sensor Networks ( ), a 5 year € 3.5 Million effort of 86 researchers belonging to 10 universities and research centers in Spain.

He has participated as a panelist in the (NSF) evaluation committee of and on a regular basis for the European Commission in the evaluation of proposals and technical verification of projects submitted to the ²¹²Ô»åÌý . In June 2008 he participated in the  as a member of the Information and Communication Systems panel. He also participated in the as a member of the Computer Science and Information Technology panel and in the priority program " " of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) in June 2009.

He was department head of the  department of UPC from October 2006 to January 2010. In the Spring of 2009 he coordinated, together with , the successful ERASMUS MUNDUS 2009-2013  EMMC Joint Master Program proposal.

He is the author of more 100 journal and conference papers in the area of signal processing and communications. Since May 2005 he is member of the Editorial Board of the  . In June 1995 and September 2001 he was co-chairman and organizer of the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±Ö±²¥ Signal Processing/ATHOS Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics held in Begur, Girona, Spain and of the IST Mobile Communications Summit 2001 held in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. He was elected  Senior Member and member of the Signal Processing for Communications (SPCOM) Technical Committee of the  in February 1998 and January 1999 respectively.

Since February 2010 he is manager of the Communications and Electronic Technologies (TEC) area of the National Research Plan of Spain of the .

Contact Information

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech

Dept. de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions

Mòdul D5, Campus Nord

Jordi Girona 1-3

08034 Barcelona

SPAIN

 

Research interests
Communication networks
Communications
Detection and estimation