Michele Zorzi

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SIGNET Research Group

We mainly focus on the SIGnal processing and NETworking research challenges, with a solid track record in the broad area of wireless networking.

mmWave Networking

A huge effort is devoted to studying solutions for communication at mmWave frequencies, with focus on a MAC and system level perspective.

Underwater networks

We design networking protocols and interfaces for underwater devices. Experimental activities and sea trials are also part of our work.

Teaching activity

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Michele Zorzi was born in 1966, and has been a Professor of Telecommunications at the School of Engineering of the University of Padova since 2003. He received the Laurea Degree and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Prior to his current appointment, he was a faculty member at the Politecnico di Milano (1993-1996), a Research Scientist at the Center for Wireless Communications, University of California at San Diego (1995-1998), and an Associate Professor (1998-2000) and then Professor (2000-2003) at the University of Ferrara. He has many international contacts and collaborations, and has been PI or co-PI of numerous research projects, both in Europe and in the US, as well as more than 20 other projects funded by different funding agencies and industrial companies.
His research is focused on the field of wireless communications and networking, and has resulted in more than 600 papers in refereed journals and international conferences (see Google Scholar). He received several best paper awards for his activities, including the prestigious IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2008 and IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Best Paper Award in 2018, and has been invited several time as a keynote speaker or a panelist. He is coauthor of four patents and is co-founder of two start-up companies, one of which was successfully acquired.
Since 1998 he has supervised more that 35 PhD students and post-docs. Students who graduated under his supervision have held or have been offered faculty/post-doc/staff positions at institutions/companies including the following: Stanford, USC, UCSD, University of Padova, University of Pisa, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Rohde-Schwartz, CTTC (Barcelona), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, UCLA, Qualcomm R&D, KTH, UC Irvine, Purdue, Huawei, u-blox.

• IEEE Fellow, 2007
• Several Laurea awards and research fellowships
• Best Tutorial Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society, 2008 and 2019
• Stephen O. Rice Best Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society, 2018
• Other best paper awards: IEEE Mobiwac 2005, IEEE CAMAD 2006, IEEE GLOBECOM (Wireless Networks Symposium) 2007, European Wireless Conference 2009, European Wireless Conference 2016, WNS3 2019, WUWNet 2019, WNS3 2020, MedComNet 2020 (Mario Gerla Best Paper Award).

• Editor in Chief of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, January 2003 - December 2005
• Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, January 2008 - December 2011
• Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, August 2014 – December 2018
• Editor for Europe for the Wiley Journal on Wireless Comm. and Mobile Computing, 1999-2013
• Guest Editor for the IEEE Personal Comm. magazine (in particular, special issue on "Cognitive Networks," August 2007) and for three special issues of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Comm. and several IEEE magazines (IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE Network)
• Editor for Europe for the Wiley Journal on Wireless Comm. and Mobile Computing, 1999-2013
• Member of the editorial board: IEEE Personal Communications magazine, 1996-2005; ACM Journal of Wireless Networks, 1998-2010; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Wireless Series, 1999-2000; IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2001-2007; IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2002-2005; IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2002-present
• Member-at-Large, IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors, 2009-2011
• Member-at-Large, IEEE Communications Society Publications Council, 2012-2013
• Director of Education and Training, IEEE Communications Society, 2014-2015
• Director of Journals, IEEE Communications Society, 2020-2021
• Member, IEEE PSPB Products and Services Committee, 2016

Contact Information

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