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Curriculum Vitae
Francesco Benedetto was born in Rome, Italy, on August 4th, 1977. He received the Dr. Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of ROMA TRE, Rome, Italy, in May 2002, and the PhD degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of ROMA TRE, Rome, Italy, in April 2007.
In 2007, he was a research fellow of the Department of Applied Electronics of the Third University of Rome. In 2008, he became an Assistant Professor of Telecommunications at the Third University of Rome (2008-2012, Applied Electronics Dept.; 2013-Present, Economics Dept.). In 2017, He unanimously received the National Academic Qualification as an Associate Professor of Telecommunications, and since 2019 He is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the same University, where he currently teaches the course of “Elements of Telecommunications” (formerly Signals and Telecommunications) in the Computer Engineering degree, the course of “Software Defined Radio” in the Laurea Magistralis in Information and Communication Technologies, and the course of “Lab. of statistical analysis systems” in the Laurea Magistralis of the School in Economics and Business Studies.
Since the academic year 2013/2014, He is also in charge of the course of “Cognitive Communications” in the Ph.D. degree in Applied Electronics at the Department of Engineering, University of Roma Tre.
He is a Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and an active member of the following IEEE Societies: IEEE Standard Association, IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Software Defined Networks, IEEE Communications, IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE Vehicular Technology. Finally, He is also a member of CNIT (Italian Inter-Universities Consortium for Telecommunications).
His research interests are in the field of ground penetrating radar, software and cognitive radio, digital signal and image processing for telecommunications and economics, code acquisition, and synchronization for the 3G mobile communication systems and multimedia communication. Since 2016, he has been the Chair of the IEEE 1900.1 working group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management.” He is the Leader of the WP 3.4 on “Development of Advanced GPR Data Processing Technique” of the European COST Action TU1208– Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar. He is an Editor of the IEEE SDN NEWSLETTER, was the General Chair of the Series of International Workshops on Signal Processing for Secure Communications (SP4SC-2014, 2015, and 2016), and the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar Signal Processing Techniques for the Signal Processing Journal (Elsevier). He also served as a Reviewer for several IEEE TRANSACTIONS, the IET (formerly IEE) Proceedings, EURASIP, and the ELSEVIER journals. He was a TPC Member for several IEEE international conferences and symposia in the same fields.
Service
2019
He is the co-CHAIR of the 43rd IEEE Int. Conf on Telecommunications and Signal Processing – TSP2020.
He has been unanimously elected as CHAIR of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management”.
He is also the Secretary (pro-tempore) and Technical Editor of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group
He is one permanent Editor of the IEEE SDN newsletter.
He is one Editor of the Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
2018
He has been unanimously elected as Chair of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management”.
He is also the Secretary (pro-tempore) and Technical Editor of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group
He is one permanent Editor of the IEEE SDN newsletter.
He is one Editor of the Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
2017
He has been unanimously elected as Chair of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management”.
He is also the Secretary (pro-tempore) and Technical Editor of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group
He is one permanent Editor of the IEEE SDN newsletter.
He is one Editor of the Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He is the General Chair of the Third International Workshop on Signal Processing for Secure Communications (SP4SC-2017)
He has been awarded by Elsevier as Outstanding Reviewer for the Digital Signal Processing Journal
He has been awarded by Elsevier as Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Applied Geophysics
2016
He has been unanimously elected as Chair of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management”.
He is one Editor of the IEEE SDN newsletter Special Issue on “Mobile Edge Cloud”,.
He is the General Chair of the Second International Workshop on Signal Processing for Secure Communications (SP4SC-2016)
He is the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar Signal Processing Techniques”, for the Signal Processing Journal (Elsevier).
He is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Signal Processing, Security and Privacy for Mobile/Wireless and Computer Networks”, for the International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation (IJMNDI).
2015
He is the General Chair of the First International Workshop on Signal Processing for Secure Communications (SP4SC-2015)
Since February 2015, He has been unanimously elected as Vice-Chair of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management”.
Since Since September 2014, He is the Chair of the ad-hoc group of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management”.
2014
He is a Voting Member of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management”.
He has been nominated Chair of the ad-hoc group of the IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on “Definitions and Concepts for Dynamic Spectrum Access: Terminology Relating to Emerging Wireless Networks, System Functionality, and Spectrum Management”.
He is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Wireless sensor networks for road safety and simulation”, for the International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation (IJMNDI).
He is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “New applications and advanced methodologies for road safety and simulation”, for the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking (IJITN).
He has been awarded by Elsevier as Recognized Reviewer for the Journal of Computers & electrical Engineering .
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the European International Conference on Signal Processing ( EUSIPCO 2014 ).
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the Int. Conf. on Localization and GNSS (IEEE ICL-GNSS ).
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the 8th Int. Conf. on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing ( IEEE WiCOM ).
2013
European Cost Action TU1208 – Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar (04/04/2013 – 03/04/2017) Leader of the WP 3.5 – “Development of advanced GPR Data Processing technique. Cost Website: http://www.gpradar.eu/
He is the Associate Editor (Area: Wireless Signal Processing and Traffic Engineering) for the International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, since 2013.
He has been the Session Chair at the 2013 IEEE International symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2013) for the sessions “Signal Processing for Wireless Communications”, “Spectrum Management and TV White Spaces”, and “Multi-Antenna Signal Processing”.
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the 8th Int. Conf. on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing ( IEEE WiCOM ).
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the European International Conference on Signal Processing ( EUSIPCO ).
2012
He is the Regional Editor of both the International Journals of Recent Patens on Computer Science and Recent Patens on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, since 2012.
He is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Recent Patents on Computer Science on “Recent Advances in Cognitive Radio Communications” , Aug. 2012.
He has been the Session Chair at the 2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Fall)for both the sessions “Detection and Estimation” and “MIMO/OFDM-based Cognitive Radio”.
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the 8th Int. Conf. on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing ( IEEE WiCOM ).
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the European International Conference on Signal Processing ( EUSIPCO ) .
He has been appointed as external referee (reviewer) from the Romanian Government (Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport) through the National Research Council (CNCS).
2011
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the European International Conference on Signal Processing ( EUSIPCO ) .
He has been appointed from the Council of the Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering of Tampere – University of Technology – to act as an opponent for the public defense of a Doctoral Dissertation.
2010
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the European International Conference on Signal Processing ( EUSIPCO ) .
He is an Editor for the ISRN Communications and Networking , one of the International Scholarly Research Network Series of Journals of the Hindawi Publishing Corporation, since 2010.
2009
He has been appointed as a TPC (Technical Program Committee) member of the European International Conference on Signal Processing ( EUSIPCO ) .
Since 2005, He is a reviewer for the following IEEE Transactions and International Journals:
- IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Communications.
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
- Wiley Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Journal.
- COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
He also served as a reviewer for many IEEE International Conferences, such as:
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC)
- IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (IEEE ISWCS)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications
- European International Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO)
Currently, He teaches the courses of:
- Software Defined Radio (Laurea Magistralis in Information and Communication Technologies).
- Elements of Telecommunications (Laurea in Computer Engineering), formerly: Telecommunications (Laurea in Computer Engineering) and Signals (Laurea in Computer Engineering).
Moreover, He collaborates to the following courses at the University of Roma Tre:
- Digital Signal Processing (Laurea Magistralis in Electronics Engineering),
- Signal Processing for Telecommunications (Laurea Magistralis in Electronics Engineering)
- Digital Signal Processing (Former Degree in Electronics Engineering)
- Telecommunication Systems (Laurea Magistralis in Computer Engineering, Management & Automation Engineering),
He has also collaborated to the following course at the LUISS University of Rome:
- Economy and Management of the Communications Technologies (Laurea Magistralis in Economics, 2006/2007 & 2007/2008).