People

Gelonch Bosch, Antoni

Antoni Gelonch received the M.S. and PhD degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 1991 and 1997 respectively. In 1992 he joined UPC and became associate professor in 1997. His main activities have been focused on the analysis and development of digital mobile radio systems and his research interest includes cellular and personal communication system, multipath transceiver design, software radio techniques, real-time acquisition techniques (AD/DA) and data processing using different types of processors, DSPs, GPUs and FPGAs, multiprocessing techniques and development of software layers and middlewares for supporting SDR processing in multiprocessor platforms.

He has participated in several research projects funded by both public and private organizations. Some of the most relevant EU-funded projects are CODIT (RACE II program), RAINBOW (ACTS), WINEGLASS (FP5), EVEREST (FP6), E2RII (FP7) and NEWCOM++. Last years, his research has been concentrated on the design and development of an SDR middleware (https://flexnets.upc.edu and https://github.com/flexnets), that include computing resources management to meet the real-time and latency constraints of modern communication systems, and the implementation of open source LTE processing chain. Recently his research addresses the particularities of implementing the Cloud-RAN concept and analyzing the new challenges of developing 5G under such assumption.

Gilabert Pinal, Pere Lluis

Pere L. Gilabert received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2002, and developed his Master thesis at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with an Erasmus exchange grant and the Ph.D. degree awarded with the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize, from the UPC in 2008. He joined the Department of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC) in 2003. He is an Associate Professor at the Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering (EETAC- UPC). His research activity is in the field of linearization techniques and digital signal processing solutions for highly efficient transmitter architectures. http://futur.upc.edu/PereLluisGilabertPinal

Mateu Mateu, Jordi

Jordi Mateu is Associate Professor in the Signal Theory and Communications Department (TSC) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He is also external Associate Researcher at CTTC, since 2007. He received the Telecommunication Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, in 1999 and 2003, respectively.

Prior to that, in summer 1999, after graduation, he held a trainee engineer position at Investment Technology department, Gillette, UK. In 2000, he joint TSC department to pursuit PhD studies. From May to August 2001, he was Visiting Researcher with Superconductor Technologies Inc., Santa Barbara CA. In October 2002 he joined Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) as Research Associate and later as Coordinator of Communication Subsystems Area, until August 2005. During that period he was also Part-time Assistant professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In September 2005, he joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO, as Fulbright Research Fellow until October 2006. Since then he has held several Guest Research Appointments at NIST (summer 2007, summer 2008, April 2009, January 2015 and May 2015). In July 2006, he was visiting Researcher at Lincoln Lab., MIT. He authored or co-authored over 50 papers in international journal, more than 60 contributions in international conferences, three book chapter and holds two patents. He has collaborated and lead several research project for national and international public and private organizations and companies.

Dr. Mateu was the recipient of the 2004 Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Fundamental and Basic Technologies for Information and Communications by COIT (Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación) and AEIT (Asociación Española de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación). He was also the recipient of a two years Postdoctoral Fulbright Research Fellowship (2006-2007) and an Occasional Lecturer Award from CIES (Council of International Exchange of Students). He was granted with a Ramón y Cajal Contract (2005-2010), being ranked second at National level, in the area of Electrical and Communication Technologies, a National Program for promoting outstanding Young researchers. He was granted by the Spanish goverment to pursuit with his PhD studies (2000-2003). From February 2011 to June 2012 he was Vice-Dean at Telecomunication and Aerospace Engineering School at UPC, in charge of academic affairs. He is IEEE Senior member. He is reviewer of several journals and international conferences.

Montoro Lopez, Gabriel

Gabriel Montoro received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1990 and 1996, respectively.He joined the Department of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC) in 1991, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His first research works were done on the area of adaptive control, and now his main research interest is in the use of signal processing strategies for power efficiency improvement in communications systems. http://futur.upc.edu/GabrielMontoroLopez

Carlos Collado

Prof. Carlos Collado received the Telecommunication Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He also holds an M.S. on Biomedical Engineering (2002). In 2001 he was awarded with the Prize to the best doctoral thesis in Electronics and Telecommunications area from UPC. He joined the faculty at UPC in 1998, and he became Associate Professor in 2005. Since Nov-2005 to Jan-2008 he was vice-dean of the Technical School of Castelldefels (EPSC) of UPC and responsible of the Telecommunication and Aeronautic Engineering degrees. He was a visiting researcher at the University of California Irvine in 2004 and a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder in 2009-2010. His primary research interests include microwave devices and systems, superconducting devices, study of efficient methods for the analysis of nonlinear effects in communication systems and characterization of the nonlinear behaviour of electro-acoustic devices. He is author or co-author of more than 60 scientific and technical journal papers, and more than 70 contributions to international conferences. http://futur.upc.edu/JuanCarlosColladoGomez

Berenguer Sau, Jordi

Bertran Alberti, Eduardo

Prof. Eduard Bertran received the Engineer and Doctor Engineer degrees in Telecommunication from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1979 and 1985, respectively. In 1987, he joined the Department of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), UPC, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has been the Head of Studies of the Department, Coordinator of some Doctorate Programs and curricula director in Telecommunications and Aeronautic Schools. His research interests include Control, Autopilots, Communication Electronics, Signal Processing, and Circuit Theory. He has collaborated in different national and European research projects and teams, and he has also collaborated in different industrial projects (he holds a patent on RF amplifiers, and a patent on railway technology is pending). He is autor or coautor of a number of journal and conference papers, as well as books and book chapters.http://futur.upc.edu/EduardoBertranAlberti