Research Habilitations

• Catalan Agency for the Quality of the University System (AQU). March 2008.

PhD Thesis Supervision

• Javier Matamoros, Energy-efficient protocols for wireless sensor networks , In progress, Start date: Feb. 2006.
• José Lopez-Vicario, Application of cross-layer techniques to array signal processing, Cum-laude, Sept. 2006.

Participation in PhD Thesis Evaluation Boards

• Distributed Resource Allocation Techniques for Interference-Limited Cellular Networks, Saad Kiani (Advisor: David Gesbert), EURECOM Institute, Mobile Communications Dept., Feb. 2008
• Design of an RF front-end for Mobile TV Applications according to the DVB-H Standard, Unai Alvarado (Advisor: Guillermo Bistué), Universidad de Navarra, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Dec. 2007
• Contribution to the characterization and evaluation of multiple antenna systems for communications: prototyping, propagation and antenna perspective, Laura García (Advisor: Leandro de Haro), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Dept. of Signals, Systems and Radiocommunications (SSR) , Dec. 2007
• Multi-beam Opportunistic Downlink Beamforming in Multi-antenna and Multi-user Wireless Communication Systems, Nizar Zorba (Advisor: A. Perez-Neira), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept. of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), Dec. 2007
• Radio link control for improving theQoS of wireless packet transmissionsEmilio Calvanese Strianati (Advisor: J. Boutros), Ecole Nationale Superiore de Telecommunications de Paris (ENST), COMELEC Dept., Dec. 2005
• Subspace- and Group Theory-based Algorithms for Multi-user detection in UMTS systems (Original Title in Spanish), Antonio Caamaño Fernández (Advisor: J. Ramos), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UCIIIM), Dept. of Signal Theory and Communications, July 2004.
• Space processing and channel estimation: performance analysis and asymptotic results, Xavier Mestre (Advisor: J. Fonollosa), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Dept. of Signal Theory and Communications, Dec. 2002

 Master Thesis Supervision

• G. Miglietta, Opportunistic Communications with Multiple Random Beamformers. A Cross-layer Approach. UPC. 2006. With honours.
• C. Fauli, Evaluación comparativa de esquemas de igualación ciega de canal basados en el algoritmo de Baum-Welch, UPC, 1998. With honours.
• J. González, Implementación en tiempo real del algoritmo de codificación de voz descrito en la recomendación GSM 6.20, UPC, 1997.
  

Organization of R&D activities

• Technical Program Committee member: IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC 2004, 2005, 2006), VDE European Wireless Conference (EWC 2004, 2005, 2006), IEEE/IFIP Mobile and Wireless Communications Network (MCWN 2004, 2005, 2006), Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2005, 2006), Unión Internacional Científica de Radio (URSI 2003, 2005), IEEE Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications International Conference (MCWC 2006), Int'l Conf. on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Comms. (CROWN-COM 2006), IST Mobile Summit (2006) .
• Organization of courses: IST-NEWCOM++ Summer School on Wireless Sensor Networks (Bressanone, Italy, 2008).
• Associate Editor: Journal of Networks - Academy Publisher (2006).
• Guest Journal Editor: Wiley's European Transactions on Telecommunications (2008, 2006, 2004), EURASIP Signal Processing Journal (2005).
• Local Committee member to: IEEE Sensor Array Multichannel signal processing workshop (SAM 2004), VDE European Wireless Conference (EWC 2004).
• Financial chairmanship: IEEE Sensor Array Multichannel signal processing workshop (SAM'04).
• Organizer of Special Sessions in Conferences: IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC 2005).
  

Invited lectures and short courses

• Decentralized parameter estimation with Wireless Sensor Networks,                IST-NEWCOM++ Summer School (Bressanone, Italy), July 2008.

• Cross-layer Scheduling in Multi-user MIMO Systems, KTH, Stockholm (Sweden), Aug. 2007.

• Capacity and Scheduling in Multi-user MIMO systems. A cross-layer approach, KTH, Stockholm (Sweden), Sept. 2005.

• Seminar on R&D case studies in Spain, Arequipa (Perú), March 2005.

• Array Signal Processing in FP5/6 frameworks, Jinan (China), March 2004.