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Position:
Associate Professor
Office:
A-008
Phone:
+34 986 818659
E-mail:
valc...@gts.uvigo.es
Short Bio:
Roberto López-Valcarce received the Telecommunication Engineer degree from the University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, in 1995, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa, USA, in 1998 and 2000 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Vigo in 2001.
Roberto is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Signal Theory & Communications at University of Vigo. From 2001 to 2006 he was an Associate Researcher at the same department, supported by a postdoctoral contract from the Ramón y Cajal Program of the Spanish Ministry of Science. During 1995 he was with Intelsis Sistemas Inteligentes SA in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where he was involved in the deployment of analog TV networks. He has co-authored over 60 papers in leading international journals and more than 100 contributions published in various conference proceedings. He has been principal investigator of a number of research projects and contracts with industry, and holds several international patents.
Roberto is a senior member of the IEEE. He was an elected member of the Signal Processing for Communication and Networking (SPCOM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society during 2011-2013. He served as Manager of the ICT Program for R&D of the Galician regional government during 2010-2013, and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing during 2007-2011. Since 2018 he serves as Subject Editor for Elsevier's Signal Processing journal.
Research Interests:
Roberto's research interests cover multiple areas of application of signal processing, including sensor networks, adaptive filtering, digital communications, spectrum sensing, etc.
Education:
- Ph.D. Telecommunication Engineering, 2001, Universidade de Vigo
- Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2000, University of Iowa
- M.Sc. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1998, University of Iowa
- B.E. Telecommunication Engineering, 1995, Universidade de Vigo
Awards:
- 2005 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (Signal Processing for Communications and Networking), for the article titled “Realizable Linear and Decision Feedback Equalizers: Properties and Connections,” published in IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 52 no. 3, pp. 757-773, March 2004
- 2007 Young Researcher Award from the Galician Regional Government
Stays in other research centers:
- University of Iowa, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1996-2000. Sponsored by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza.
Ph.D. Advisor of:
- Vahid Vahidpour (in progress). Topic: Sidelobe reduction for delay-Doppler and multiantenna communication systems.
- Andrea Guamo (in progress). Topic: Full-duplex techniques for mmWave communications.
- Khawar Hussain: Spectrum shaping techniques for advanced multicarrier communication systems, July 2023.
- Damián González Figueroa: Synthesis of multiaxis stationary non-Gaussian shaped vibration, October 2020. Currently at CTAG.
- Emilio Antonio Rodríguez: Self-interference mitigation in Full-Duplex relays: Blind adaptive techniques and optimal linear filter design (co-supervised with Risto Wichman and Stefan Werner), March 2018. Currently at Nokia, Finland.
- Daniel Romero González: Estimation, detection, and learning for dynamic spectrum access, May 2015. Currently at University of Agder (Norway).
- Gonzalo Vázquez Vilar: Interference and network management in cognitive communication systems (co-supervised with Carlos Mosquera), June 2011. Currently at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
- Marcos Álvarez Díaz: Design of nonlinear precoding and estimation schemes for advanced communication systems (co-supervised with Carlos Mosquera), July 2010. Currently at Gradiant.
Projects and events:
GPSC was a participant in the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 project Foundations and Methodologies for Future Communication and Sensor Networks - COMONSENS, which lives on through the Network of Excellence "Red COMONSENS".
Links and Other Info:
- Office Hours: please contact me via email to arrange an appointment
- A link to the online book Comunicaciones Digitales (in Spanish)
- R. Lopez-Valcarce's Google Scholar web page, ResearcherID web page, ResearchGate and Mathematics Genealogy
- Looking for Masters' and Ph.D. students (must have a solid background in Signal Processing and Communications). Men and Women are all welcome.