Prof. Umberto
Spagnolini
1987:
degree summa cum laude
as Dottore in Ingegneria Elettronica at Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)
1988: Hewlett Packard -
Stanford Park Microwave Division
1988-1990: Associate Researcher at POLIMI
1990-98: Assistant Professor at
Politecnico di Milano
1998-06: Associate Professor at Politecnico di
Milano
2006- Full
Professor at Politecnico di Milano
Courses
1990-96: Algorithm and
Circuits for Telecommunication Systems
1995-96: Image Processing
1996-2003: Digital Signal Processing (graduate level)
2003-present: Communication Systems (undergraduate level)
2002-present Statistical Signal Processing (graduate level)
2002-present: Topics on Signal
Processing for Wireless Communication System (PhD course)
Tutorials
WiMAX802.16e:
technology and system perspective. Advanced features of PHY layer
DSP
and radio-reconfigurability: block-processing
Awards
1991: AEI Award
1991: Van Weelden Award of EAGE
1998: the Best Paper Award on Geophysical Prospecting
1998: Best Reviewers of IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2006: Best Paper Award IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing (ICASSP2006)
2007: Best Paper Award IEEE Wireless
Rural and Emergency Communications (WRECOM 2007)
2007: Best Paper Award IEEE Signal Processing Advances on Wireless
Communications (SPAWC 2007)
Editorial Activity
1999-2006: Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing.
Session Chairman: EAGE (1996,97,98,01,02), ICC (2001,02), GLOBECOM (2003), PIMRC
(2005)
Tech. Program Comm. (TPC): EAGE’01 (Adv. in
Signal Proc.), ICC’02 (Adv. Wireless Comm. Symp.) and GLOBECOM’03 (Comm.Theory Symp.,
Wireless Comm. Symp.), ICC'06 (Gen.Conf.),
GLOBECOM’07
(Gen.Conf.) PIMRC'05, PIMRC'06, PIMRC’07, GPR2006, WRECOM’07, ICC’08, PIMRC’08
Memberships:
IEEE (Senior member), EAGE, SEG.
1995-present: Instrumentation/Future Technologies
committee of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Society
1996: Ground Penetrating Radar User’s International Committee